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How about what if Alexander the Great didn't die in Babylon? But instead lived and conquered for another twenty years? Building a bigger Hellenistic Empire across North Africa, Italy and maybe Spain and France?

What if Operation Long Jump had actually been real and attempted by the Nazis to assassinate or kidnap Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference?

Here's one potentially fun AU: What if Washington won the Battle of Long Island? How would he do it? And what would change? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island

The sheer amount of land in North America and the Caribbean would make it unlikely for them to run out of land to give to black veterans-The real issue would be internal relations in the longer term. If the CSA won, industrialization would be a big priority, and competition with the USA would...

And for those tired of scenarios related to the American Civil War: Mustafa Kemal, Turkey's first president, died in 1938 after modernizing Turkey from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. He left no heirs and instead his work at secularizing Turkey fell to his prime minister, Ismet Inonou. Suppose...

A late US Civil War proposal (1865) on the Confederate side was to offer slaves freedom to fight for the Confederacy. At that late a stage in the war, it would have changed nothing. So, let's think about things earlier in the conflict. The Confederacy in the early stages of the war tried to...

Let's explore another bit of AU: What would a world with a real life Wakanda, an African collection of tribes getting their hands on Vibranium, look like?

1953: Stalin dies, and Georgi Malenkov succeeds him. He is apparently a reform-minded Soviet, seeking to cut military spending and pull back on political repression. Nikita Khrushchev would eventually pull together a coalition of hard liners to vote Malenkov out and would become the premier...

Here's one: Suppose China got on the modernization kick that Japan did in order to stop being made the bitches of the West?

Essentially, having that big of a disaster and death toll on the human's population would alter the entire course of human history. No World War II, for starters.

What if the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 killed not a "mere" 20 to 50 million people, but killed everyone infected? That is, 500 million people: One third of the human population at the time?

Dead how? We just post as we're inspired, and I haven't been inspired lately. That said, I do have one suggestion: 1963: President Kennedy proposed a joint moon mission with the Soviet Union. What if this had happened, and continued even under Lyndon B. Johnson and the Nixon administration?

1919: The Boston Police Department went on strike this year, a watershed moment for the influence of public unions. As a result, criminals were basically free to run amok. What if vigilantes emerged? Masked vigilantes who soon gain alter egos, who fight against disorder.

2007: The start of the modern anti-vaccination movement begins here, when celebrity Jenny McCarthy claims her son became autistic because of his vaccinations. Let us imagine a slightly different timeline up to this point. You see, zombism and vampirism, among other mythical humanoid monsters...

1961: While the Beetle Mecha will not be used to service nuclear powered US Air Force bombers, a breakthrough in the technology makes mecha if not inexpensive, at least easier to maintain and mass produce. What roles could giant robots have in the 1960s-1970s US military? And what happens when...

Here's one: What if the Babbage Engine (seen here) actually was mass produced? Would the world change significantly with primitive computers making their appearance in the 1820s rather than the 1930s? And then becoming more utilized?

More than likely World War II would still happen, but definitely different leadership. It may end in another inconclusive stalemate though, without the fanaticism of the Nazi party to push the conflict so hard.

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Well the diseases did hurt the Native populations immensely. The Europeans didn't know that, not until later. But they didn't know that at the time of the initial European colonization. In addition, upon initial contact many Europeans also died from the climate and local diseases. The thing was...

That and they made alliances with various native tribes. That is how Cortez conquered the Aztecs-His hundred men were just not enough to overthrow a massive civilization, but allying with the many, MANY local tribes who hated the Aztecs and acting as force multipliers let them take them over...