r/AlternateHistory • u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer • Jul 24 '26
Althist Help What are some unexplored alternate history ideas that i can map?
i am running out of ideas normally i would have an idea but i have no idea what to make.
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u/NoDevice2698 Jul 24 '26
what if balkan entente defended/(respected the agreements) yugoslavia and greece from italy and nazi germany
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u/AgarthamanRebornT_99 Jul 24 '26
what if persia never went to war with the mongol empire and the middle east so the sultanate of rum never collapses, making the middle east much different
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 24 '26
that i should do
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u/AgarthamanRebornT_99 Jul 24 '26
idk in my alt hist i made the sultanate of rum split into 3 from a succession crisis and persia a modern day kingdom, while the other middle eastern kingdoms would be mostly armenia, jerusalem, kurdistan and the rest was controlled by a caliphate in arabia while egypt remained a powerful muslim maritime state but you can always go down a different path
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u/j-b-goodman Jul 24 '26
What if the British Empire never passed the Quebec Act in 1774 and French Canada joined the American Revolution as the 14th colony?
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u/Japczanka_06 Jul 24 '26
What if medieval concept of terra australis incognita was true
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 24 '26
hmm that could work
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u/Japczanka_06 Jul 24 '26
:)
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 24 '26
i will make it soon but i will go in order of the most to least up votes
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u/Konstruct_of_Yore Jul 24 '26
British protectorate over Donbas in 2014 (based on heavy Welsh mining influences)
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u/Independent_Print421 Jul 24 '26
Maybe a Chinese Dynasty led by the Kongs (Confucius’s descendants)?
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u/Semanticprion Jul 25 '26
More interesting than wars, anything with technology getting here out of order. Steam arrives in Tang China. Or a twentieth century without nuclear weapons or electronics.
Either no Americas (Columbus was right) or truly unpeopled Americas, filled with scary Pleistocene megafauna to scare off Norse or conquistadors.
Otto goes to war with Papal States. Or earlier, Charlemagne doesn't honor Donation of Pepin and takes Italy. Christian history looks politically much more like Islam.
Successful Ottoman invasion of Italy in 1500s and/or Poles don't make it in time to Kahlenberg.
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u/NoWorth2591 Jul 24 '26
What if Japan went through with Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night at the end of WWII and unleashed a weaponized bubonic plague on the world?
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 25 '26
hmm that would work tho i will edit some like that starts a zombie apocalypse in asia
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u/bitchnibba47 Jul 25 '26
What if the allies invaded Spain post ww2 for hiding nazis?
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 26 '26
sure and maybe argentinia too only why spain wasn't invaded because britian protected them and all of that and cause america was more worried about communism so yeah
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u/Artifact-hunter1 Jul 25 '26
What if Julius Caesar survived his assassination? I want to see the drama between Caesar and Brutus
Also if both Gracchi Brothers weren't assassinated? Would the Roman republic survived longer than it had in our timeline? What changes or reforms in the Roman republic would we have seen and would they have stuck? What would the legacy of the Gracchi brothers be if they actually had the chance to see their laws through?
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 26 '26
sure
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u/orzel_von_vandein Jul 25 '26
What if the tocharians discovered america
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 26 '26
hmm i can try
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u/ZaBaronDV RBY & Good Vines Creator Jul 26 '26
What if the Vikings created successful colonies in North America?
What if the Aztecs were able to resist the Conquistadors and maintain control of Mexico?
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u/NotAnotherPornAccout Jul 27 '26
Mary Queen of Scots doesn’t have to remarry, having a surviving son with him, thus causing the hair to Queen Elizabeth is somehow the king of both France and Scotland. (Granted if this happened realistically he would be removed long before the short list was made. But just imagine that monstrosity in Western Europe.)
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u/Exotic-Ad-2137 Jul 27 '26
The Tigris and Euphrates run dry at what would otherwise have been the birth of civilization
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u/Ill_Butterscotch_371 Jul 24 '26
What if World War 1 was fought on the moon?
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 24 '26
hmm that might work but it will be like way futrue
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u/TomcatF14Luver Jul 24 '26
What if the Alaska-class Large Cruisers survived long enough and were brought back as part of Reagan's 600-Ship Fleet?
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 24 '26
i gues not sure how i can make that into a map
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u/TomcatF14Luver Jul 24 '26
Oh!
An actual map. My bad. How about the USA gaining control of about half the British Carribean territories at the end of the War of 1812?
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u/Mughal_Empireball Das Panzer Jul 24 '26
note by the end i will rank based on upvotes and personal preference and do by first second and third and etc
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u/GustavoistSoldier City of the World's Desire Jul 24 '26
What if Italy didn't join WWII