The Alternate History Thread.
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Diplomatic Protocol.
Also maybe Willing Ally was a bit strong but there certainly was no sympathy for the British Empire in Ireland at the time.
Yep, more than likely diplomatic protocol, albeit not the most tactful or well thought out.
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I think it was more the fact that Britain had it's back turned so the IRA figured they had free reign to attack them. We were told get a handle on them or Britain would have to get involved if I remember correctly.
Yep, more than likely diplomatic protocol, albeit not the most tactful or well thought out.
This did some damage to Ireland.
We wouldn't have been subjected to An Inconvienent Truth and global warming wouldn't exist...
OMG I loved that book. The only trouble was that some of the police titles took up a whole line by themsleves.
How different would life be if John Smith hadn't died so early. For those of you too young to remember, he was the leader of the Labour party until his death in1992.
Then Hitler still wouldn'tve been able to stage operation Sealion because the Royal Navy was too powerful.
I have absolutely no proof that he did, but you can't prove that he didn't.He didn't.....
Therefore, he did.
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What if Cyrus the Great had been a bit of a *******? On conquering Babylon he gave a small cult permission to return to Judea and build a temple to worship their god, thus leading to this small and minority cult (The Jews) to become the major religion in that area. Had he decided to shaft them, or simply forgot to turn up to the meeting? Then pretty much the whole course of human history goes a slighty different way.
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Indeed. Herr Sturmbannfuhrer is a bit of a mouthful. Major is a lot less.
John Smith died in 1994 by the way.
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A really good site for discussing alternative history has lots and lots of scenarios of everything you could imagine.
http://www.alternatehistory.com/
http://www.alternatehistory.com/
If Themistocles had not interpreted the Delphic Oracle about wooden walls to mean Athens' naval power, as opposed to her city walls as a method to withhold the Persians - Then we would be in quite a different place right now. The course of the Persian wars would have changed, and Mardonius' (Xerxes really) forces would have overrun the Greeks, removing the East/West divide we now have and have had for thousands of years.
In the early and mid 15th century, China had a huge navy, especially trading ships, and was rapidly expanding its international trade and influence.
By the beginning of the 16th century, religious influence had completely reversed that position, leading to the fleets being destroyed and foreign travel pretty much banned. China became extremely isolationist.
What if a different emperor had inherited the throne and resisted the clerics' policy of isolationism instead of embracing it? China would then have been on a par with the British empire in naval terms, probably military and merchant navies.
Or, going back a bit further, what if Emperor Marcus Aurelius hadn't broken with the adoption custom? That custom sustained the golden age of the Roman empire, through the time of the five good emperors. They were good because the first one, Nerva, deliberately scoured the empire for the man best suited to be the next emperor, adopted him and made him his heir. He then did the same in his turn, etc. Marcus Aurelius broke the custom and named his biological son heir. So the empire got Commodus, who was a violent raving nutjob who blighted the empire. Maybe the empire would have remained for longer if it had continued to have a reliable succession of good leaders.
Or the other way - what if Vespasian hadn't managed to seize the throne and stablise the empire? There were four emperors in one year, following years of rule by yet another violent nutjob. The empire was going down the toilet. It could have fallen apart completely.
By the beginning of the 16th century, religious influence had completely reversed that position, leading to the fleets being destroyed and foreign travel pretty much banned. China became extremely isolationist.
What if a different emperor had inherited the throne and resisted the clerics' policy of isolationism instead of embracing it? China would then have been on a par with the British empire in naval terms, probably military and merchant navies.
Or, going back a bit further, what if Emperor Marcus Aurelius hadn't broken with the adoption custom? That custom sustained the golden age of the Roman empire, through the time of the five good emperors. They were good because the first one, Nerva, deliberately scoured the empire for the man best suited to be the next emperor, adopted him and made him his heir. He then did the same in his turn, etc. Marcus Aurelius broke the custom and named his biological son heir. So the empire got Commodus, who was a violent raving nutjob who blighted the empire. Maybe the empire would have remained for longer if it had continued to have a reliable succession of good leaders.
Or the other way - what if Vespasian hadn't managed to seize the throne and stablise the empire? There were four emperors in one year, following years of rule by yet another violent nutjob. The empire was going down the toilet. It could have fallen apart completely.
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If the Great Library of Alexandria wasnt burned to ground level by the christians then i reckon we would have been at least 500 years ahead technologically.
This event was, imho, a huge step backwards in the evolution of science
This event was, imho, a huge step backwards in the evolution of science
but what if our navy never exsisted ? reckon we could all be speaking spanish ?
Also, didn't they have great success hitting our supply ships in the Antlantic?
Are you sure it was "the christians"?
http://www.bede.org.uk/library.htm
Whoever burnt it, I think you're right about the impact on history. I'll add a similar though lesser alternative - the burning of the library at Baghdad.