I love how wonderfully inaccurate it is, Confederacy dominates South America and converts it into a tropical empire, enslaves pretty much every non-white race with the exception of Jews, who, in gratitude for the services of Judah P. Benjamin, are confined to a reservation on Long Island. That their economy didn't utterly collapse is because they're fiendishly evil nd are cool enough to run an economy on metaphysical concepts.Stranger 517 said:
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As for my favorite what ifs
What if Rome never fell? I suspect we'd see a Europe much more similar to China in terms of history, with dynasties and kingships rising and falling and an earlier colonization of America).
What if the Crusaders had taken the Mongols up on their offer for an alliance against the Middle East?
What if the Union had won the Civil War earlier than it did? The earlier it happens, the more likely that slavery is not abolished by the Union is preserved, it would have died later though due to sheer impracticality.
What if the Umayyads had won the Battle of Tours? We could see an Islamic-influenced France similar to what happened with Spain, fears of "all Europe being washed away by an Islamic tide" are not really steady, the Europeans would have raised more armies and driven them out eventually, probably would have strengthened the role of the Catholic church and racism in general among Europeans, I mean the French were pretty bad about that before, but they would be worse for wear if they got a taste of Muslim conquest.
(the old classic) what if Germany had won the Second World War?
What if Stalin had prepared adequately for Germany's invasion (A significantly less devastating world war, heightened Soviet aggression in the years that followed without the massive war destruction to hold it back)?
What if Hitler had attacked the Middle East instead of the Soviet Union (makes sense from a resource standpoint, a big thing about the Soviet invasion was taking the Caucasus oil reserves, German conquest of the Middle East could easily have done that)?
What if the Crusades had succeeded (not entirely implausible at times)?
What if the 1979 Iranian Revolution had never occured (an exceedingly pro-American monarchy staying in power, bankrolling pretty much any Israeli wars with ample supplies of Iranian oil).
What if America had become a monarchy (assuming that history follows pretty much the same course, we could see American monarchism arising as a third faction to European democracy and Soviet communism).
What if America had joined the Axis powers?
What if the fascist ideology had arisen in America and made us the first fascist nation?
What if the South had won? I take a more pragmatic approach than most, slavery would not last until the modern day, and the South would not conquer everyone. North and South would have an, at best tense coexistence probably not completely unlike the relationship of the two Koreas. Britain and France and all the other European powers would play the North and South against each other and stir things up so that they'd weaken each other through war and other means, leaving Europeans free to make the Americas their playground again.
What if Martin Luther King had been discredited and Malcom X's calls for violent black nationalism had been heeded? I can imagine a way worse civil rights movement and having people like Strom Thurmond or George Lincoln Rockwell getting elected on a fairly regular basis.
What if America had taken Berlin instead of the Soviet Union?
