Instead of hiring a geometry major to divide up the Ottoman Empire's ashes, they hire a social studies major. Probably wouldn't have fixed the "Holy Land" problem, but maybe the Kurd wouldn't have gotten screwed like they did.
If you could change one event in history, just to see what happens
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It was actually intercepted by the British and they used it to convince America to join the war.Enigmatic Master said:
OT: I want to see what the world would be like if Chiang Kai-shek had won the Chinese Civil War.
....F*(%.... I dont like your rules to this game...Rocking Thunder said:
Because why even bother? Its not going to have any impact on anything so your only choices would have to be future choices so you can see what would happen and act accordingly...
On my own playing field minus the above mentioned rule..
I would change my birth so that something happened making me a biological super being who can change my appearance at will, live forever so long as i have the resources for life (food water air ect) and have super regenerative powers beyond a normal human, but still appear to be normal to the doctors so no FBI agents come by... Or maybe i would want them to so i can play superhero... Na
Not so much an event as an idea, but I would make the Romans realize that the steam engine can be more than a toy.
I would totally persuade darwin to perfect the theory of evolution and rub it in religions face lol
seriously ummm probably stop guns from being created so i could fight people off with swords
fun fun fun
seriously ummm probably stop guns from being created so i could fight people off with swords
fun fun fun
I just wonder how the person we consider to be one of the most evil men in history would have fared if his circumstances were different. If he was given a steady job, if he never got politically involved, would his hatred and radical views still possess him to try and murder an entire people group? would his personality have always made it an inevitability that his life would end in a crazed bloodbath, even though social status would attempt to suppress it?imperialwar said:
If so, then how many Adolf Hitlers are running around today. People who, if they were given power, would commit atrocities so horrible, that virtually everthing about them would be cursed and shunned for the next 50 years (When was the last time you met an Adolf, or saw someone with a toothbrush mustache? the swatstika was actually a good luck symbol before he inverted it, now it's never used.)
It's an interesting thought experiment.
I don't think Bush was lying, the only thing that proves is that he had crap intelligence. It was always a possibility that he was in Pakistan, but the most likely place was a hidden series of underground tunnels under a mountainrange, miles and miles long situated on the Iraq/Pakistan border. Also, it wasn't politically advantageous for Bush to declare Pakistan was in Cahoots with Osama, for obvious reasons.Miner said:
Whether the invasion and occupations that have been happening are right or not is another issue, but there are several reasons why Bush wouldn't say Osama was in Pakistan, it doesn't necessarily mean he was malicious.
I would make it so that the desert tribe who ended up creating the bible never became popular, and died into obscurity.
My guess? Most of the world would not be religious. the 'big three' faiths (Judaism would have been a nomadic religion only practiced by that ONE tribe of people, but still.) would never have existed. So they would never have affected the world. I think Rome/Greece would have ended up finding out a lot more about science. Beyond that I'd like to think that we'd have space traveling capabilities for everyone from not having a 1700 year gap in the growth of knowledge.
My guess? Most of the world would not be religious. the 'big three' faiths (Judaism would have been a nomadic religion only practiced by that ONE tribe of people, but still.) would never have existed. So they would never have affected the world. I think Rome/Greece would have ended up finding out a lot more about science. Beyond that I'd like to think that we'd have space traveling capabilities for everyone from not having a 1700 year gap in the growth of knowledge.
While interesting, your hypothesis is flawed in a few places. First, the Dark Ages only lasted about 1000 years, not 1700. And I doubt that Christianity had anything to do with the Visigoths and Vandals sacking Rome and the general fall of the Roman Empire, which was far more directly the cause of the Dark Ages than Christianity. In fact, Christian scholars were among the few who retained any sort of knowledge in those times.Arluza said:
I'd change hostory so I won the lottery last month. It could have happened because I bought a ticket last month for the superdraw.
We invaded Iraq because they were suspected of having nuclear weapons, not because Osama might be there.Miner said:
Make it so Germany isn't burnt in WW1's aftermath, then we'd be without that sucky deal of WW2 and Hitler being Hitler.