r/HistoryWhatIf

Something that I recently learned is that many Greek-speaking people from the Eastern Mediterranean - territory that once lay in the Byzantine Empire - continued to call themselves ‘Romans’ until the early twenty-first century. With this in mind, how do you imagine the Byzantine Empire would have evolved as a nation had it managed to survive all the way to the present, aside from likely preventing the Ottoman Empire’s emergence as a noteworthy power?

In a parallel universe, abnormal weather in Asia leads to the formation of a second glacial land bridge between Asia and North America during the 1200s, while Genghis Khan is in power.

During the early stages of the Mongol conquests, Genghis Khan (for some reason) decides to go East instead of West, leading him to discover the land bridge and cross it into North America.

Congratulations, Genghis Khan! You just discovered the New World.

How screwed are the indigenous people of the New World now that Genghis Khan's Mongol Army is sweeping through their territory?

What if Israel became an ally for USSR, I know Joseph Stalin at first supported Israel establishment but turns out Israel wanted American and English support. Let’s say that didn’t happen what issues would arise later down the line. I know Joseph Stalin immediately regretted his decision after that, and most Soviet leaders.

Coming from r/askHistory, where would human progression be right now if it wasn't for their actions?

This battle was the turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars. Had Xerxes not been defeated who knows how history would have changed; so dear denizens of HWif, how would things be different with this point of departure? Would Xerxes roll up the Greek states, make them all vassals, end Western Civilization or create a newer freer world. What-if?

Considering zhou enlai was against indian invasion,great leap forward and cultural revolution

And supporter of deng xioping and presented more reforms and opening ups

Would china do what it did but earlier like japan with no one child as well?

Would china have better relations with vietnam?

Consider mao gives all power to zhou enlai and straight up does months later or gets forgotten

I am sick and tired of people trying to concoct a NAZI win. Can we do something to stop all the speculation in that direction?

The result is too horrific to merit the effort

In my alternate history universe, the following changes occurred.

• The USA won the war of 1812 and the territory of the USA circa 2026, encompasses all of what would be Canada, Greenland, Iceland and the Baja California Peninsula.
• Humanity's technological and scientific progress between 1942 and onwards is moderately accelerated.

With those two details in mind: In my timeline, the USA never built the Interstate Highway System, instead it kept using and maintaining the pre-1956 highway system which is longer in my timeline on account of the USA being much larger.

Instead of building the Interstate Highway System, the USA of my timeline built a high-speed rail system between 1956 and 1976 which would ultimately connect all the major cities with Maglev trains. By 2026, the Interstate Maglev Network allows citizens to cross the entire country in less than a day's time.

Anyway...

I'm wondering what airports and air-travel would be like in my alternate timeline?

From my perspective, I think there would be fewer airports and airlines because the IMN eliminates or reduces the need for air-travel between the states. Airports would only exist in major cities that receive a lot of international visitors and cargo and air travel would be primarily limited to overseas destinations. As a result, I think air travel would be more of a luxury for upper middle class persons and above.

What do you think?

Prior to the division of Germany as we know it, each of the four main Allied powers (Britain, France, America and the Soviet Union) occupied part of the country, with the American, British and French portions later merging into what became West Germany? But what if that never happened? What if, for whatever reason, the borders between each of these four zones remained, leaving four German countries instead of just two? How would this impact the Cold War and eventual German reunification?

Say that in this situation France is less devastated during WW2 and their industry is in a better place, then received enough investment to actually supply their armored units. With more Lorraine L37s, introduce the B40 turret to the B1 Bis in 1938 or so, and replace the SA18s with more capable weapons?

Essentially if French industry could support a more capable mechanized force in terms of its “soft stats” and “hard stats”.

The idea being that a more capable armored force with a better supply train is able to be deployed and adapt to the German Ardennes push so that they aren’t getting caught on the march or surprised during fueling efforts.

“Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?” That was the question that industrialist Andrew Ryan asked three different sources - the United States government, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the Pope in the Vatican. None of their answers satisfied Ryan - the Americans proclaimed it belonged to the poor; the Vatican proclaimed it belonged to God; the Soviets declared that it belonged to everyone. Desperate to free himself from those opposing his extreme libertarian and objectivist philosophy, Ryan gathered up other members of the wealthy elite to create Rapture - an underwater utopia aimed at allowing the ‘great’ to prosper without interference from society and those beneath them. So how does the existence of this underwater city and the marvellous technology and science on which it relied to survive impact the rest of the Cold War and onwards?

Augustus has for more than twenty years been gathering power for himself and expanding the empire. As the sun sets on the city and he enjoys his meal, a bright star appears in the dark eastern sky and rapidly grows large as it catches the last light of the setting sun. Augustus and other Romans only have a moment to marvel at the light before it explodes into the city with the force of the Tunguska Blast.

What happens to the known world in the aftermath of Rome's destruction? Do the provinces get ruled by post-roman military dictators or do they overthrow their conquerors?

What happens to the messianic Judaic cults? Assuming the OTL historicity of Jesus (not to mention the Star itself), does Jesus rise to greater prominence as some kind of post-Roman prophet, or is he overshadowed/made irrelevant by the death of Rome?

What if, either in 2001 or 2008, Israel and Palestine somehow agreed to a (intended) final peace agreement, ending the Israeli Palestinian conflict? Would tnis last? And if it did, would Israel have at least a less negative reputation throighout most of the Muslim World?

As we know, Germany simply didn't have enough to sustain its brutal war of attrition with USSR. Not to mention the Soviets were able to keep moving their industries (and population) deeper into Russian territory ensuring their war production kept going.

But say Germany didn't have the resource and manpower limits it had. And they can keep sustaining their campaign.

What could have been the breaking point of the Soviets to finally subjugate them?

A lost strategic territory? A destroyed industrial base? A lost resource basket? Death or capture of a military or political leader?

Like in the years of Rice and Salt timeline in the 16th century a chinese fleet gets blown off course on the way to conquer Japan then travels to America and back on the North Pacific Gyre. suppose something like that happened after the attempted Yuan Invasion of Japan, and then the Chinese just know there's another continent out there from the late 13th century onwards.

In this timeline, a cold resistant species of tree exists along the peninsula alongside existing Antarctic flora giving people fuel and wood for tools and boats and the southern ocean is far less hostile making travel to Antarctica more feasible by ancient civilizations such as the Polynesians.

Would Europeans attempt to colonize them? What would the population and culture be like?
What would trade look like?
How many people could the peninsula support? Similar to the Inuit in the arctic and Greenland?
Does this greatly change the world, major events and our timeline or is the impact small?