Ideas for an alternate history project.

[blindthrall]

Instead of focusing on tool-making, early man devoted his time to agriculture. They caught on to genetics much earlier from more involved animal husbandry, and would rather grow things than build them. Would have been slower developing, but an overall much more sustainable civilization. Gold would never have become valuable and economies might never have come about. Over time, and with artificial lifeforms escaping into the wild, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the natural and the artificial.

Sounds like a utopia, until you realize that cows produce more carbon dioxide emissions than cars.

 

[heyheysg]

Christianity never existed and technology advanced 1000 years faster because of the lack of persecution

 

[park92]

red alert universe lolz

 

[park92]

that actually happened lolz

 

[Karosok]

I love alt-history. I'm a Harry Turtledove fanboy myself. He does do a lot of these ideas. Which include

Aliens invade earth during WW2 causing the world powers to team up.
Order 182 is never lost causing the south to win the War of Northern Aggression. (This one basically replaces all the events from the Mexican war to the end of WW2 from Europe to North America.)
Kaiser Bill wins WW1.
Mohammed converts to christianity so Islam never exists.
Rome never falls. (Which isn't as cool as it sounds. It's really still there just because they discovered gunpowder quickly so nobody could invade but other nations developed it so they never grew creating a stalemate in advancement where rome is filled with bureaucracy since wars are pointless and technology is still at about renaissance era but without the art.)
Hitler wins.
USSR wins.
Spanish Armada wins.
The east coast breaks off of North America in a continental drift and stuff ensues.
South African neo-nazis go back in time and give the Confederacy AK-47s but things go horribly wrong.
One of Julius Ceaser's legions of romans is transported to an alternate world with magic.

Okay. Okay that's over.

Side note. You must remember that christian monasteries preserved written language and literature along with much technology and history. Basically without monks, we would have had to restart all technological and cultural advancement at the fall of Rome. (Christianity did not cause the fall of Rome.) Which might have caused t. The East to rise or even cooler. African/North American Renaissance. (Africa has been done but oh well.)

 

[Jedisolo75]

What if Constantine hadn't legalized Christianity in the Roman empire. It basically created the Roman Catholic church as we know it and compleately changed culture throughout Europe. Maybe not much would have changed, but maybe the entire world would have been different.

you got that from family guy!

ot: what if there hadn't been a video game crash of 1983?

I don't doubt that Family guy did it, but I never saw it.

 

[Jedisolo75]

I love alt-history. I'm a Harry Turtledove fanboy myself. He does do a lot of these ideas. Which include

Aliens invade earth during WW2 causing the world powers to team up.
Order 182 is never lost causing the south to win the War of Northern Aggression. (This one basically replaces all the events from the Mexican war to the end of WW2 from Europe to North America.)
Kaiser Bill wins WW1.
Mohammed converts to christianity so Islam never exists.
Rome never falls. (Which isn't as cool as it sounds. It's really still there just because they discovered gunpowder quickly so nobody could invade but other nations developed it so they never grew creating a stalemate in advancement where rome is filled with bureaucracy since wars are pointless and technology is still at about renaissance era but without the art.)
Hitler wins.
USSR wins.
Spanish Armada wins.
The east coast breaks off of North America in a continental drift and stuff ensues.
South African neo-nazis go back in time and give the Confederacy AK-47s but things go horribly wrong.
One of Julius Ceaser's legions of romans is transported to an alternate world with magic.

Okay. Okay that's over.

Side note. You must remember that christian monasteries preserved written language and literature along with much technology and history. Basically without monks, we would have had to restart all technological and cultural advancement at the fall of Rome. (Christianity did not cause the fall of Rome.) Which might have caused t. The East to rise or even cooler. African/North American Renaissance. (Africa has been done but oh well.)

HEY, don't you know that any post that doesn't blame Christianity for every single evil in the entire world is expressly forbidden by every person who hasn't bothered to learn their history and judges the entire religion based on a few douche bags on TV. In case you haven't noticed that's about half of the people on the internet.

The other half is busy claiming that Jesus Christ actually came over on the Mayflower and founded our nation as the new Jerusalem and only an idiot would deny it.

Maybe there?s a middle ground here, but God forbid that anyone on the Internet try to find it, it?s too much fun to should angry things and insult other peoples beliefs.

LOUD NOISES WHOOOOOOOOO, NOW YOU KNOW I?M RIGHT!!!!!!!

 

[Fritzvalt]

The death of Plato is a good one. He almost died in a war, which one I don't recall, but it was before he began to philosophise....