Alternate histories.
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As long as it isn't the Rome survives, so we don't have a dark age, that one always pisses me off.
maybe Germany winning WWI, imagine how much more boring the 20th century would be.
I also like to think about the world where athanasius dies during his flight from Rome
maybe Germany winning WWI, imagine how much more boring the 20th century would be.
I also like to think about the world where athanasius dies during his flight from Rome
I'd choose an alternate history in which communism and capitalism, the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact and the United States/NATO simply agreed to coexist peacefully without a massive arms buildup. It'd be interesting to find out how 1945-1989 would have gone without the two major powers of the world trying to sabotage and/or outmatch each other.
Irish history in secondary school, a summary:Kirkby said:
*ahem*
First there was stone age men. They lifted on artificial islands until they got metal working skills. Then they lived in ring forts.
Then nothing happened for a few hundred years and St Patrick came and gave us Christianity.
Then there be Vikings who founded Dublin and liked it here so they moved in and became Irish.
After that we became a shining beacon of hope in the European dark ages by exporting monks and saints to europe to found monasteries.
Then the *the following words should be said in the most amount of bile and hate you can summon* English came. At first they weren't bad they just stayed inside dublin and set up the pale, but they were coming. However they were Catholic and alright.
Then Henry VIII separated and created the devils own work. Protestants. These people under the guide of Satan's own bride Elizabeth the First and her other relatives started to take our land.
Until Cromwell. Before Cromwell Ireland was a happy lucky land where the rivers ran with milk and honey.
After Cromwell the Irish where lucky to survive after he went around eating all our babies.
We tried to rebel and got our arses kicked and lay low,
Until 1798 when brave Wolfe Tone and his fellow Catholic-
But Sir wasn't Wolfe tone a Protestant?
QUIET LARKIN!!!! As I was saying brave Wolfe Tone stood up and rebelled and the Brits used this as their excuse to take all our lands and rights.
Then they orchestrated the failure of the Irish famine and stole all our food while we were hungry. And outlawed Catholicism.
Then Daniel O'Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell-
*cough*Protestant*cough
WHAT WAS THAT LARKIN?!? Anyway the brave sons of Ireland O'Connell and Parnell got us the rights to Catholicism and land ownership back. But this wasn't enough.
The brit's still refused to grant us home rule and then in 1916 we gloriously rebelled while NOT A SINGLE IRISHMAN FOUGHT FOR THE BRITS IN WW1. Unfortunately we were betrayed by the protestants.... Young Patrick Pearse and Wise James Connelly where both shot after surrendering.
Then in 1919 led by the great Michael Collins we fought for our independence and where granted it in 1921. THEN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENED IN 1921-22 and Michael Collins died happily in bed far away from Cork.
However the dastardly brits still wouldn't give us the North so to this day our brave Northern brethren fight against the tyranny of the British crown.
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Yup my knowledge of Irish history is bipartisan in nature and more indepth then the normal school leaver.
Ok first off, The dark ages would have never happened, all religion would have lost its appeal after a while causing new thought provoking religions to pop up. Past that I couldn't really tell you because I have no idea what effect that would have on the world besides making our technology way more advanced than it is.
Oh and if too much didn't change, I would make it so Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, and that he was such an awesome president that he united the US and Cuba with peace.
... and weed would be legal world wide.
Oh and if too much didn't change, I would make it so Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, and that he was such an awesome president that he united the US and Cuba with peace.
... and weed would be legal world wide.
i would have to say i would prefer a axis of time alternate history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_Time where people from the future are sent back to the past and accelerate technology and social norms etc. so by time its the present again its like its the future.
the axis of time series a multinational naval force from like 2021 is send back to just before the battle of midway and acciedentally destroy the fleet. basically its a world war 2 story fileld with modern and futuristic weapons and idea.
the axis of time series a multinational naval force from like 2021 is send back to just before the battle of midway and acciedentally destroy the fleet. basically its a world war 2 story fileld with modern and futuristic weapons and idea.
Yes Axis of Time is awesome. John Birmingham is a very good up and coming writer in this field.Merkavar said:
I for one can't wait for the next book.
Im very impressed about now! Thats a lot of stuff to hv just in your head on command
Ah yes im familiar with this tone = P Though mainly from the northern Irish rather than the southern. My mates from Donegal never mention a thing, but the ones from Belfast.... well i hear it a bit ; )Agent Larkin said:
Ask anyone taught by someone taught by the Christian brothers and they will say their teacher was like this.Kirkby said:
My description was like my teacher for two years.
Here's the most interesting and original one i got. "What if......George Lincoln Rockwell was never assassinated?" Think about how different things would be. Or iffff "Julius Caesar was never killed...." THINK HOW DIFFERENT THE WORLD WOULD BE TODAY?!?!
A world where Atheism is the main religion... or... non-religion I guess...
...I wonder what it would be like?
...I wonder what it would be like?
How about The Aztecs or Mayans were never wiped out?
Actually I got that from a Sci-Fi book where the Aztecs come to be the dominant power on Earth and they bring the human race to the intergalactic stage with the Japanese as sort of indentured servants with power (And Military). Can't remember the name...
Aw damn, ninjaed.
Actually I got that from a Sci-Fi book where the Aztecs come to be the dominant power on Earth and they bring the human race to the intergalactic stage with the Japanese as sort of indentured servants with power (And Military). Can't remember the name...
Aw damn, ninjaed.
So... Mass Effect, but without the Protheans, about 200 years earlier, and no actual guarantee of unisex blue alien chicks or awesome... (continues on, not very important...)s0m3th1ng said:
What if the Seven Years War never occurred? When you look at it, it was after that war where the British began the series of taxes on the American colonies. If we weren't taxed like that, we'd all probably be subjects of the British Empire because we wouldn't have had anything to be revolting about. More than likely, we may have become a country in a similar manner like Canada rather than gain our independence through force.
Just a thought, y'know?
Just a thought, y'know?
