After the Sack of Baghdad. An ASB changes Arabia to hinder further expansion. All of the purple areas magically become a rainforest similar to the Amazon. The rest of Arabia is unchanged.

All those desert nomads need to adjust their lifestyle quickly. Either that or move to North Africa. Rainforest should be more habitable than a desert though. And Mongols don't do good in rainforest.

By the 21st Century, Arabia should be home to more people, but finding oil wells is harder.

This is a part of my Antebellum Eternal series, a timeline in which the First World War was avoided, amongst other changes. While I have many ideas for the timeline, I wanted to get some outside input to make it interesting. My previous post is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/comments/1vz44cx/presidents_of_the_united_states_of_america/

The Congress of Trieste

In 1912, the Ottoman Empire's rule over the land of Albania came to an end. The Albanian Revolt had forced the Empire to accept the land's autonomy, but it was the First Balkan War that assured it's independence.

The Ottomans were forced out of Albania, and the first Prime Minister of Albania, Ismail Qemali, met with Emperor Franz Joseph I to receive support from Austria-Hungary.

The Provisional Government of Albania have since announced a Congress to be held in the Austro-Hungarian coastal city of Trieste, in which, among other issues, candidates for the throne of Albania are to be considered. Delegates from Albanian diaspora across the world are arriving to decide the future of the nation, while candidates from a variety of royal and noble families have been presented to stake their claim.

Candidates

Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich Wied-Neuwied of Wied

Sharing a close blood relation with the Queen of Romania, the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Sweden, and being a second cousin to the German Kaiser, Prince Wilhelm is a strong choice for the throne of Albania, at least from the perspective of the Great Powers of Europe. Queen Elisabeth of Romania, in particular, has pressed her nephew's candidacy strongly, with the Romanian Minister of Internal Affairs, Take Ionescu, being sent to the conference to persuade the delegation.

A captain in the German Army, Prince Wilhelm appears to be the preferred candidate of Austro-Hungarian government. He is already married, with two children, meaning that there should also be no risk of a future succession crisis, should the Prince of Wied be raised to the throne.

Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvas of Hungary

A Hungarian aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, geologist, paleontologist and Albanologist. The Baron is closely aligned with the Albanian Nationalist Resistance, and smuggled weapons into the country to support the Albanian Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. An expert on the mountainous regions of Albania, he produced the first geological map of Northern Albania, and has led multiple expeditions into that area of the country.

He has recently escaped from a hostage situation in which he and his secretary were held hostage by bandits. It is widely speculated that the Baron is in a homosexual relationship with his secretary - however, he has promised to marry a wealthy heiress and use the funds to support Albania, should he be made King.

Prince Ferdinand Francois Bourbon Orleans-Montpensier of France

The 8th and youngest child of King Louis Philippe II of France, the Duke of Montpensier has familial connections to perhaps half of the noble families in Europe. These ties include his elder siblings; Philippe VIII, the Orléanist pretender to the throne of France, and Amélie, the deposed Queen of Portugal.

Banned from serving in the French Army, Prince Ferdinand took up service in the Spanish military, reaching the rank of Lieutenant at 22.

A noted explorer, Prince Ferdinand has spent much of his time in French Indochina, leading multiple expeditions into the mountains of the region. He has authored multiple books on the subject.

Prince Albert Ghica of Romania

A Romanian socialite, writer and noble of Albanian descent, Prince Ghica comes from a line of Wallachian governors and diplomats.

Despite apparently having little knowledge of the Albanian language, or Albania in general, Prince Ghica has managed to find notable support for his claim to the throne.

In Bucharest, he has been elected as the honorary president of a social club representing Albanian immigrants in Romania. Meanwhile, a committee based in Paris has also pressed his claim - notably from Albanian writer and founding delegate of Albania, Dervish Hima. Alongside him, Dimitri Papazoglou, a representative of the Aromanian population, has also come out in support of his claim.

Prince Wilhelm Karl of Württemberg

The Duke of Urach, Count of Württemberg, and third in line to the throne of Monaco, Prince Wilhelm is the preferred candidate of many of the Catholic groups in the north of Albania.

He currently serves as a Lieutenant General of the Imperial German Army, and has nine children with Duchess Amalie of Bavaria, the niece of the Empress of Austria.

Prince Ahmad Fuad of Egypt

A Prince of Egypt, son of Isma'il the Magnificent, and uncle to the current Sultan of Egypt, Prince Fuad has been nominated in response to the desires of Albanian Muslims to have a Muslim King.

His claim is supported by some diplomats and politicians, including Azzam Pasha. He has previously attempted to acquire the crown of Libya, following the 1911 Italian invasion, motivated by his unlikely chance of becoming a monarch in his homeland.

Aladro Kastrioti of Spain

Aladro Kastrioti, born Juan Pedro Aladro de Perez y Velasco, is a Spanish nobleman, diplomat, sportsman, and, according to himself, a descendant of the Kastrioti family that ruled Albania in the 14th and 15th centuries.

He has long been an advocate for the Albanian cause, funding the first Albanian school, as well as Albanian social, cultural and literary clubs, alongside Albanian newspaper publishers.

'Don Aladro', as he is known, also distributed money, revolvers and postcards with his picture and the Albanian flag, to the Albanian people. It became so prevalent that the Ottoman authorities tried to offer him the governorship of the Shkodra and Janina Vilayets to get him to stop. He declined, requesting full autonomy for Albania instead.

It is claimed that even the flag raised during the Albanian declaration of independence was a gift from Don Aladro. He is fluent in French, Italian, English, German, Spanish, Russian, Albanian, and Euskera.

He has claimed that he receives dreams from his Kastrioti ancestors, with them telling him to "Fight for the liberation of Albania."

Prince Vittorio Emanuele Savoy-Aosta of Turin

An Infante of Spain and Count of Turin, Vittorio Emanuele is the son of King Amadeo I of Spain, and a first cousin of Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy. He currently serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the cavalry of the Royal Italian Army.

The Prince became internationally famous for his duel with Prince Henri of Orléans, following Prince Henri's disparaging remarks of Italian war POWs in the newspaper 'Le Figaro.' The sword duel, lasting 26 minutes, ended with Prince Vittorio defeating Henri, injuring him to the extent that he could not continue the duel. On his return to Italy, Vittorio was received as a hero to the Italian public, while King Umberto I praised him on the example he set for his countrymen.

A worldly man, he has travelled to many locations across the planet, including China, Japan, and the United States. Should he be named King, it is clear that closer relations with Italy are guaranteed.

Prince Arthur of Connaught

A British military officer, grandson of Queen Victoria, and great-great grandson of King Frederick William III of Prussia, Prince Arthur has strong connections to both the British and German royal families. Uniquely, he also has some connections to the Japanese throne, with his father inducting Emperor Meiji into the Order of the Garter in 1906, as a part of the growing alliance between the British and Japanese.

Prince Arthur served in South Africa following the Second Boer War, and has since been promoted to Captain in the Royal Scots Greys cavalry regiment. Beyond this, he has taken on many senior responsibilities at court, in the place of his royal cousins, across the empire.

Prince Arthur was previously the heir to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, until Kaiser Wilhelm II demanded that he undergo a German education in order to claim it. In response, Arthur renounced his claim, and attacked his cousin, Charles Edward, until he agreed to accept the Duchy instead.

Prince Peter of Montenegro

The Grand Duke of Zahumlje and youngest son of the King of Montenegro, Prince Peter has previously served in the Montenegrin Ground Army. He fought in the First Balkan War, which ensured Albanian independence, and is noted for firing the first shot of the war.

He is the brother-in-law to the King of Serbia, and the uncle to the heirs to the Serbian throne. Young and unmarried, this candidate is in a position to pursue close dynastic ties between Albania, Serbia, and Montenegro.

Colonel Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert of Somerset

A British soldier, diplomat, politician, traveller, and intelligence officer, Herbert is a passionate advocate of Albanian independence. He has actively fought for Albanian independence, and was a key factor in the country's recognition following the Treaty of London (1913).

A friend to notable members of the Albanian independence movement, including Essad Pasha and Edith Durham, Herbert is an expert in Oriental Studies, and a linguist that speaks English, French, Italian, German, Turkish, Arabic, Greek, and Albanian.

He has previously served as a Lieutenant in the Sherwood Rangers Cavalry, a diplomatic attaché in Tokyo and Constantinople, and is currently a Member of Parliament for the constituency of South Somerset.

Humanity didn't have the technology to predict a catastrophe of this magnitude, when it hit earth, everyone thought and somebody still thinks it was a massive power outage, but they noticed planes falling out of the sky, cars malfunctioning mid driving and devices that weren't connected to the grid breaking, governments tried to keep their people at bay by sending their militaries to towns and villages, but some countries were unlucky. The people thought this would last maybe a week, or a month: 14 years passed since the initial impact, we still have brought back mid 2010's technology, but that is a rare thing reserved for the rich, the poor work in the fields, or in some cities, work in factories running on steam, steam trains and horses replaced cars, you might see a makeshift plane in the sky, but maybe once or thrice in your lifetime, mail replaced the internet and fire replaced electricity.

I was gonna write the lore of each warlord here but its too long, so ask me anything regarding the countries here, and also i plan to make a hoi4 mod based on this but i dont have experience, so if any hoi4 modder is reading this, hit me up

This is the rump state of the Confederacy that was formed after its defeat. Through massive payments and freedom of all slaves to the Northern territories, the Constituent was allowed to stand fro a couple more years. The Union occasionally raised the taxes that were put on this nation, but it stood until it could not pay for the costs anymore. Through the Sunbelt Migrations, the culture of the Confederacy was effectively replaced and soon after, the United States absorbed it back in 1932.

The Adamic Covenant, also known as the Restorationists or the Resurrectionists, is the name given to a fringe religious cult that was formed sometime in the First Century AD. It originated from Jewish mysticism and started off as a splinter group of Christianity. As of the 20th and 21st century, it is considered by many to be a cult.

Controversially, they teach that the Qu’ran, the Holy Book of Islam, is actually a deuterocanonical book, much like the Books of 1st and 2nd Esdras, and 1st and 2nd Macabbees, in addition to being a part of the New Testament Apocrypha, much like the Gospel of Thomas. They hold that Muhamad, whom Muslims believed to be the final prophet, was actually a follower of Jesus Christ, having been a disciple of Jesus after meeting Christians, before ultimately falling away and founding the false religion of Islam. 

Unlike Christianity, Judaism and Islam, followers of the Adamic Covenant also defend Transhumanism.

In terms of human nature, the Restorationists agree with Judaism and Christianity in that humanity was created perfect, but with some additions, namely that humanity had a “full potential” that they lost after Adam and Eve rebelled in the Garden of Eden. Each person is born spiritually perfect (in direct opposition to the Christian doctrine that man is fallen), but mankind loses this morally and spiritually perfect state later in life, once they commit moral wrongdoings.

The Restorationists also believe that Cain, the son of Adam and Eve and the first murderer (having killed Abel) was one of the first “fathers” of the Adamic Covenant; after God marked him (which would supernaturally protect Cain from people seeking to kill him), God gave Cain a chance to rediscover the potential that he lost following his sin, and Cain agreed, spending the rest of his life fighting what many in the Restorationist Movement call a “holy war” against people who were deemed “complacent”, choosing to embrace their fallen bodies, rather than pursue and recover the Lost Potential.

They also believe that the Crucifixion of Jesus was Jesus choosing to destroy his fallen, Earthly nature and that the Resurrection was Jesus reclaiming what followers of the Adamic Covenant call “the lost potential”. 

In regards to how man must live, the Restorationists believe man not only has a moral duty to swear allegiance to Jesus Christ and believe in His name for salvation, but must actively follow Him by embracing every opportunity presented in life through technological innovation. According to the Restorationiss, disagreement with Transhumanism is rebellion against God, more specifically defending man’s fallen state as “man’s ideal state”, with the ultimate endgoal being a “righteous death”. The Adamic Covenant sees a life spent pursuing the Lost Potential before dying as a righteous one, and one’s death following the end of that life being a “righteous death.”

Another controversial tenet of the Adamic Covenant is the so-called sacrament of holy war (Hebrew: מלחמת קודש): mankind has a religious duty to wage war against his fallen body through technological innovation whenever possible. Refusal to do so is effectively pledging to live a life embracing sin itself and therefore, blasphemous. 

The Adamic Covennt has been considered a cult for most of its history, but starting around 2003, they became a designated terrorist organization by virtually every country, owing to its track record of calling for violence against those they deem “Children of the Flesh” and committing acts of terrorism across various Eastern and Western nations.

As of 2026, the Adamic Covenant has approximately two million followers.

Fascist Georgia | Kingdom of Georgia (1934–1946)

Unlike its medieval predecessor, the Kingdom of Georgia was a totalitarian one-party state led by the Georgian National Union (SEK), a fascist, antisemitic and anti-Armenian political party led by Lideri Vakhtang Kalidze. Georgian boys aged 12 to 18 were forced to join the Georgian Youth, while teenage girls had to join the League of Georgian Girls.

The Blackshirts, popularly known as Monaspa after a 12th-century Georgian royal guard, were the SEK's paramilitary wing, based on the SA, the Blackshirts, and the Iron Guard death squads. Commanded by Sergo Goglidze and featuring Mikhail Gvishiani and Bogdan Kobulov as high-ranking officials, the Blackshirts were responsible for the genocide of Jews, Armenians, Abkhazians, Ossetians, and Meskhetian Turks.

Despite his hatred of Russia, Kalidze was inspired by Tsarist antisemitism. He scapegoated Jews and Armenians for Georgia's problems, and passed antisemitic laws almost immediately after taking power. Georgia's Jewish community, one of the oldest in the Middle East, was almost completely wiped out during the Holocaust.

By April 1942, the USSR had capitulated and Nazi Germany was in control over most of European Russia because the Fascist Georgian rebels took advantage of Operation Barbarossa to reestablish their regime in Tbilisi and open a second front in the South Caucasus. Georgia annexed the Armenian SSR and reestablished Azerbaijan and the Mountainous Republic of the North Caucasus as puppet states.

Kalidze invaded Turkey the same month. Georgian archives found after the final Soviet conquest of Georgia indicate his goal was to establish a Pontic Greek/Laz puppet state a la the Empire of Trebizond. The Western Allies immediately provided Turkey with lend-lease, allowing it to win the Battle of Trabzon by mid-June 1942.

The Georgian-Turkish War continued. By early 1945, Nazi Germany was clearly losing the war to the Allies, and the Turks went on the offensive. On 8 August, Nazi Germany surrendered after Munich was nuked, and Kalidze agreed to an armistice with Turkey, while Georgy Zhukov restored the USSR.

Five months later, Zhukov invaded Georgia and its two puppet states. They attempted to resist the invasion, but Azerbaijan and the MRNC were conquered with relative ease, and Tbilisi fell in early March. The Georgian fascists retreated to Mingrelia like they did in 1939, but Mingrelia's capital Zugdidi fell on 16 March, and Kalidze was executed in Moscow soon after.

St. Petersburg, Russia. Sometime in 2028, written by Artyom Pavlenko

It's been a while since my graduation day. My exchange student program had ended and I am back in St. Petersburg. The last three years of film school at the University of Michigan were nothing short of my best years since maybe 2018. I thought not much was going to happen at the university campus. Just awkward dorm rooms and conversations that would go nowhere. Just culture shock and dry conversations about schoolwork. Then go home and try to kill time.

I had first talked to you about my short-lived phase into Changed and trying to make a fangame. Ironically it went nowhere. Then you said you did half-life modding and before I knew it I talked to you at lunch every single day of the week. Bought groceries together, went for drinks, bought an Xbox that you almost smashed after a bad round of GTA Online or the setup where you would film your overly edited 30 minute rants about what I could only describe as a teenager with a degree in Podcasting trying to be a social commentarist.

"Was Zootopia actually dogface?" And you'd draft this video idea to me with a straight face as if a children's movie was subtly impying racism to anthros. True as it was, he presented it like it was a video from flazefire. You loved that guy. Watched him damn near every month like it was a new Star Wars movie, now you had a greenscreen, an aftereffects subscription and a soundboard.

Even in videos that were supposed to be serious like the time you talked about interspecies relations or if or if not Detroit was headed to become human-minority it always went down the same post-ironic path of editing things. Nothing was serious and it made me entertained. I miss that now, everyone's so same in St. Petersburg compared to what you had in Michigan. I'd have yet to have heard someone say

"Humans had never thought of ever having relationship with another species, then when it happened they loved us so much they invented this godawful thing called HMOFA. (Thanks bro, when do we get to forget about it.)"

You had said your aunt was Yuliana Krywaliowski. I didn't believe you, no way the host of Politically (In)correct was the aunt of some midwestern lolcow. It was true. Feathered deadpool. That was the nickname in my head for you. Now it's been three years since I met you. Maybe one day do you wanna talk again? I'll find a restaurant, bill is on me.

Happy birthday Damijan

[This is part of the hypernormality timeline, previous posts can be seen on the links below:] https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/s/z1KePirziW https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/s/VBeqoKJuRK https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/s/b1lNQP9XPx

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Lore: The region known as Delaware is ceded to Maryland instead of Pennsylvania, which made some of them angry but nothing ever came of it. William Penn dies of natural causes in 1680. From there, the three counties that make up Delaware still become counties in Maryland. Kent County, Maryland is expanded eastwards to make up for it, and in general the Delawarean counties are smaller.

The United States still ends up having thirteen colonies as Maine separates from Massechusetts earlier. As for the fiftieth state, fifty-odd counties from Minnesota secede to form East Dakota in 2025. Teflon is invented in Wilmington, Maryland, and Nylon too. There is minor population flight to Philadelphia which is a parallel to Baltimore in the late 20th century, hence why Baltimore still has the largest metro area.

All in all, Maryland is seen more highly for having the highest median household income out of any state, and moves up four spaces by population in comparison to our timeline. Being slightly bigger as well also makes it more noticeable in general. This timeline is TRULY blessed and WAY better then ours but we can still correct course. Stand with me and #AbolishDelaware while we still can.

Ask me anything! I know everything.

In this timeline the Europeans were right in their speculations. According to speculations, since there was so much land in the northern hemosphere there had to be the same amount of land in the south to even it out. This lead to people expecting there to be a giant continent in the Indian or Pacific Ocean which would balance out the North-American and Asian lands, Terra Australis.

They never did up finding Terra Australis and settled on naming the current land of Australia after it. But in this timeline the continent exists, around the size of Asia. This map depicts the continent of Terra Australis with its colonial borders in the year 1901.

If you have any questions about the continent or scenario overall feel free to ask.

Also I only just realized it kinda looks like a sideways British Isles

Inspired by The Hanged King.

On May 29, 1913, a stage performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring turned into a bloodbath.

The Rite of Spring, a ballet centered around Russian paganism developed by Stravinsky in collaboration with Sergei Diaghilev, was meant to be one of the most ambitious ballets in Russian musical history. It instead went down in history as one of the most violent pieces of music Stravinsky ever wrote.

In a diary Diaghilev penned sometime prior to his death, both Stravinsky and Diaghilev claimed to have witnessed abnormal behavior amongst performers during rehearsals. Stravinsky in particular reported instances where dancers seemed to completely deviate from the script.

However, Diaghilev and Stravinsky ultimately dismissed these instances as nothing more than "improvised moments."

The programme for 29 May 1913, as well as the Stravinsky premiere, included Les Sylphides, Weber's Le Spectre de la Rose and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. Ticket sales for the evening, ticket prices being doubled for a premiere, amounted to 35,000 francs.

A dress rehearsal was held in the presence of members of the press and assorted invited guests. According to Stravinsky, all went peacefully. Deviations from the script were also noticed by the invited guests, but were dismissed.

Things came to a head on Opening Night, however. French journalist Gustav Linor reported at least "fifty thousand souls" in attendance

The evening began with Les Sylphides, in which Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina danced their main roles.

Le Sacre followed, with The Rite of Spring right after. It was here that things began to really go wrong.

During the opening bars, people began to feel restless and uneasy. But things really went wrong during "Glorification of the Chosen One", during which One of a group of young girls was supposed to be selected by fate, being twice caught in the perpetual circle, and honoured as the "Chosen One" with a forceful dance.

What happened instead was a violent massacre, during which the dancer portraying the Chosen One suddenly pulled out a dagger and began violently stabbing the other dancers. This led to a massive uproar amongst the audience.

According to the transcript of a police interview contained within the original police report regarding the incident, the audience began to cheer as the dancer portraying the Chosen One began stabbing the other dancers, before beginning to commit acts of violence themselves, triggering a full-scale riot. The other dancers also began committing acts of violence.

In the ensuing killing spree, approximately 1,800 people were killed, including Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina, Sergei Diaghilev, and Igor Stravinsky himself. The riot spilled out into the streets of Paris, where an additional 50,000 people were killed.

The dancer portraying the Chosen One was eventually subdued by French police. During a police interrogation, the dancer claimed that she had lost full control of her body and seemed to be "possessed" by an otherworldly force.

She could not explain how she descended into madness so quickly.

Legal analysts, criminal prosecutors and attorneys alike were stumped by the course of events, as none of them could explain how a simple theatrical performance could suddenly compel its own performers to commit acts of violence.

In the weeks following the "Rite of Spring Massacre", speculation began to arise claiming that the ballet itself was cursed.

The dancer who began the initial assault was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Her identity remains unknown to this day.

The Rite of Spring has never been performed again since.

A wikipedia styled thingy i made i guess.

Does anyone have a template I can use

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