Mapping game results Group 4 by Arminius1871, journal
Mapping game results Group 4
Hi dear mappers!
The fourth group of our mapping game has finished all its maps and I want to present you the result of the timeline. Every player only saw the previous map, that´s why such funny timelines can occure. Sadly some people had no time, but we still got 9 great maps! Let us know in the comments what you think or if you have questions:
1. ~EntrerrianoMaps (https://www.deviantart.com/entrerrianomaps)
2. :iconlordelpresidente:
3. :iconbi777:
4. :iconLnucleus:
https://img06.deviantart.net/1717/i/2017/246/5/e/cartoturnaa_by_lnucleus-dbm8yae.png
5. :icongeorgianmapping: XX
6. :iconalternativemaps: XX (switched to group 1)
7. :iconalternatehistory95: XX
8. :ico
Because you may have thought I had gone soft here's a scenario 'inspired' by one Tak Loufer did on soc.history.what-if a decade ago. I've kept much of his original derangement and expanded with my own.
The divergence for this one is the AIDS virus starting to spread in a big way 15 years earlier than OTL. The knockon effects from this are nanturally unpleasant for all concerned. Thanks to mishaps involving villagers eating a bad dish of tasty monkey-brains in the 1940s. the timetable for HIV's getting to the point where it breaks out of a small patch of jungle and into the wider world is sped up about 15 years.
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In this world, in the 2nd century BC, Hindu merchants from south-east Asia managed to travel as far north as Japan, which was linked into the Hindu trade routes. With this new expansion, Hinduism never loses its maritime traditions, linking much of south and oceanic Asia in a trade network allowing for the spread of ideas, religions and experiences.
Hinduism slowly and steadily spread throughout the Japanese Isles creating a syncretic religion with Shinto traditions, beating Buddhism to the punch. Outposts in the Philippines and Indonesia spread the influence of the Indian thalassocracies and the Hindu religion further into oceanic Asia, whi
Friday, 22nd June, 2007 (a date remembered as the Great Unveiling), saw Extranormal Event-14690 take place: hundreds of documents from the SCP archive began appearing across thousands of websites worldwide, originating from no apparent source. Despite all attempts at discrediting the incident as part of some massive hoax or publicity stunt, this was one blow the Masquerade could not recover from, and after over a century of existing in secrecy, the SCP Foundation now operates in a world where Things Man Was Not Meant To Know have become common knowledge. After an international tribunal, the Foundation was forced to release most of its humanoi
Grigory Romanov, the second youngest member of the Politburo, is voted in as General Secretary of the CPSU in 1985. Romanov is far more conservative a reformer than Gorbachev, conducting economic reforms by politically conservative methods and crushing nationalist sentiment where possible. Poland is let loose, with Solidarity and the Catholic Church making governance no longer viable there, followed by East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Slovakia is later on-again, off-again with the Soviets. Romania doubles down, as do Hungary and Bulgaria, and the governments there are saved. Mongolia, on the other hand, is absorbed as the sixteenth SSR as the
#7-Mittleuropa- A world in which Hitler died in 1935, and after several power struggles, a much milder leader comes to power. The World is divided into three blocs: one dominated by the U.S., another by the U.S.S.R., and a third by Japan. Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, and the Netherlands are all tied together in a neutral and wealthy alliance called “the Mittleuropan Union.”
The U.S., is the richest nation, with allies in Western Europe, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. The U.S.S.R. supports the Italian communist government that overthrew Mussolini in the ‘50s, as well as everythi
Here's an update on a GURPS Alternate Earths 2 setting where the British won the American Revolution and as a result the rise of political liberalism and modern capitalism became permanently retarded. I've retconned some of the really implausible bits such as practically the entirety of the Midwest and the Great Plains still in Indian hands by 1984. I'm working on Aeolus in 2012 too:
Cornwallis 2012
Over a generation has passed since the Russian Revolution that saw the overthrow of the Czar, and the world formerly dominated by an authoritarian oligarchy has become vastly transformed. The Russian Dominate finds itself the de facto master of
Alternate History Concept: Bismark II by YNot1989, journal
Alternate History Concept: Bismark II
So what if after WWI instead of a nut like Hitler taking power in Germany, a kind of Otto Von Bismark II came to power, a nationalistic but extremely intelligent practitioner of Realpolitik. The Nazis come to power, but they dial back the anti-semetism in favor of blaming the political elites and the wealthy, and promising to make Germany strong in the face of depression. So more of a Bismark meets FDR, Franz Van Roosevelt, a Franz Van Bismark.
So Franz takes power much like OTL Hitler, just with fewer murdering innocent people and no genocide, while seizing the assets of wealthy German aristocrats and using it to build up the German economy
The Seven Years War was fought for longer and produced a result closer to the status quo than in OTL, with Britain taking the Ohio River, but only up to a point, and France maintained her ever present threat in North America. The Royal Navy never became the overwhelming force that it did in our world, but the tensions between the Great Powers were still not sufficiently resolved, and the British colonies in North America agreed to bear the onus of British militarisation for as long as the French threat was there. The 19th century was much like the 18th, a cycle of World Wars, primarily fought between Britain and France, with the other powers
A Place Calling Itself Rome by CyberPhoenix001, literature
Literature
A Place Calling Itself Rome
In this timeline, much like in the famous AH.com timeline Decades of Darkness, the New England states of the US secede in the early 19th century. Later down the line, however, the New Englanders managed to top them again in an attempt by the US to recapture their lost territories, managing to dislodge and absorb a number of other states from the US instead, dealing a massive blow and turning the two nations into bitter enemies who consistently failed to reconcile for another century and a half.
That is to say, until they both wiped each other off the face of the Earth. Yep, this is a bit of a grim one.
The main powers of this world are Ital