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Why are you guys debating a frickin' 20th century POD in a thread dedicated to imagining ATL scenarios that produce worlds that would be truly unrecognisable and staggeringly alien to preset-day viewers from OTL? Short of perhaps "massive nuclear exchange occurs during the Cold War", no 20th...

As far as my sugestions in this thread go: There's little I can say about a world where Homo Neanderthalensis survives instead of Homo Sapiens. Increasingly greater understanding of the Neaderthals has, by now, demonstrated quite clearly that they were not brutes and that they did not walk like...

You're still talking about a POD around c. AD 1000. By that time, the various nations of Europe are generally recognisable to our modern eyes. Causal effects from the industrialisation in China will not realistically arrive in time to alter the critical phase of Christianity around that time, so...

I don't see any sea-going ships using it, but offloading cargo into barges, moving it with those, and then loading it into other ships on the other side... well, that still beats doing the exact same thing but with horse/donkeys/carts/camels/etc instead of barges. Pre-railroads, waterways are...

Alexander actually had plans to restore this.

Overall, he seems not to have been very interested in sex that much. He got off on conquering stuff. He did marry three women, although two of them were Akhaimenid princesses, so that may well have been purely political. Marrying Roxana didn't serve such a clear political purpose, though, so I...

Arabia first (but really just the coastline), then further West. Depending on events, either war with Cathage first, or war in Italy first. In the latter case, he wanted Megale Hellas to recognise him as hegemon, and then to crush the Samnites, who had previously killed his uncle (and also...

There are several theories on that, and I do not pretend to have any definitive answers as to that. I do believe that the process was considerably longer and more gradual than the Jewish scribes later tried to make it seem. Religious history tends towards revisionism, after all, and we have...

-- "No Indo-European migrations" has been done, and certainly produces something that is really, really different. "Indo-Europeans go East" is less commonly discussed, but has the same effect on Western Eurasia. The existence of basically sort-of recognisable Indo-Europeans is offset by...