Ideas for an alternate history project.

[CrazyGirl17]

Let's see...

What if they dinosaurs never died out?

What if Hitler //died// in WWI?

What if President Kennedy (or alternatively, Licoln) was never assassinated?

What if the North lost the Civil War?

What if we lost the Revolutionary War?

What Aztecs/Incans/Mayans (or whatever) were never killed off?

These are the only (somewhat good) ideas I can think of right now (other than the obvious) "Nazis win WWII Scenario").

 

[UberMore]

In the Ancient days, The Jewish synagogues embraced Jesus as the messiah. The people flocked to him, and he became the next Roman emperor (somehow, that's your job to figure out how). The result was a new empire of absolute peace and divine justice. It could also discuss the modern ramifications of this and how society and the world would be different today.

Or do this.
This could be amazing...
You could turn it into a book, then a film, with flashbacks and stuff, and comparison to the modern world...
Screw the History Project, get writing this damn book before Fbuh or I do it!!

 

[blindthrall]

As far as Neanderthals, they evolved from us (Cro-magnon). And all we really know is they're not around anymore. We may have killed them, outperformed them, or possibly even outfucked them and absorbed them into the Cro-magnon DNA. But Neanderthals never figured out fire. That had to hurt.

 

[siege_1302]

Hitler won.

Simple enough.

Come on, what about 'what if aliens invaded the antarctic and were peaceful?'

Early man developed religion to explain the natural world. The very foundation of religion, the animistic nature worship ones, represent the first time that man really questioned the world around him. His explanations were very wrong, but it formed the basis for inquiry that eventually led to science. If we take religion out of the grand equation, humanity might end up stupider. But if you're just talking about the Yahweh/Jehovah/Allah religions, I can't see any harm.

OT:It'd be cool, but I don't think the Romans could have kept it together for 2000+ years. Their 800 year empire is still the high score. I don't count the Japanese Emperors, since most of them were figureheads.

The idea never was that you take away the drive or curiosity, just instead of going for religion as a means of explanation there would be something akin to the scientific method.
Maybe it wouldn't work, and it would only resemble modern science in spirit.

I like your idea of keeping pantheons though, I think they are easier to see as an explanation of events (like crops growing etc) than monotheism.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Alternate Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was a cyborg sent from the future.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Well I will try for a wide range of the spectrum, from the (highly) possible to the (most) unlikely.

alright Possible:
-Hitler won
-Nuclear fallout(most likely cold war)
-(A minor one but)Al Gore being elected instead of W.
-The south won(civil war)
-Nepolean/Ceasar never born
-England wasnt colonial
-treaty of Varisialles never drawn up

Unlikely:
-Dinosaurs never died out, humanity still evolved
-Aliens invaded/enslaved(any point in history)
-Alternate universe discovered/openned up(pretty much the Mist)
-Roman empire never colasped
-Religion never discovered
-Guns never discovered
-Fire never discovered
-Boats never discovered
-Europe never existed
-North america never discovered
-Space travel/Green technology invested in instead of WW1-2 occuring
-Planet of the apes
-Disease never existed

 

[ChaosReaver]

What if the Covenant hadn't invaded Earth?

OT: What if Europe hadn't been as Imperialistic?

 

[Sark]

Big Bang never happened.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Godzilla taking over the earth

Simple enough

 

[youlosepoints]

What if Lincoln was never elected?

 

[The Ultimate 2]

What about if the movie "Taxi Driver" was never made?

 

[Trivun]

Hitler won.

Simple enough.

Even better - William the Conquerer never won the Battle of Hastings in Britain in 1066. In which case the entirety of British history, and thus by association, the entirety of history for any country that's ever had links to us, since 1066, will be ultimately changed. The USA might not exist today as we know it, if Harold hadn't had that arrow in his eye...

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

One small event, so many ripples.

Ah the true manor of history unmasked. What if Julius Ceasar never came to power? Roman wouldnt have became collassal, The Dark ages wouldnt have occured, and Christianity wouldn't have come to Europe. No crusades, no inquisistions, no scientific repression, alot of things would be very different.

 

[satanslawer123]

were hitler died seeing as they never found his body

 

[jboking]

The cold war turned warm. The USA was defeated. Russian America.

 

[riskroWe]

Martin Scorcese never takes heroin, so he never makes taxi driver, so John Hinckley Jr never tries to kill Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, so Reagan doesn't get a popularity boost and he loses to Walter Mondale, who then surrenders the country to the Soviet Union just 47 days into his presidency.

 

[mdk31]

How about if the Aztecs managed to drive the Spanish conquistadors back into the sea?

 

[AceDefective]

This is easy pffff
The Romans never broke apart and they continue to rule the world to this day

 

[blindthrall]

siege_1302: It's hard to see primitive man formulating the scientific method. Religion was a stepping stone, without which we would have fallen into a river of ignorance. Awesome avatar by the way.

Yeah, the nuke is pretty much the only thing that kept Stalin in check. It also kept the Chinese from interfering in Vietnam, and it saved millions of lives on both sides when Japan was nuked. But I don't see how they're useful anymore, except to terrorists. Which is why the US and China still have them. The US actually made a nuclear warhead that could be fired from a bazooka, the M-388 Davy Crockett (cuz that woulda shown those Mexicans). It was meant to be used against invading Soviets in Germany, and yes, it was a real-life Fatman.

A "Mist" alternate reality? Bring on the shoggoths!

And some people here been watching "American Dad".