Alternate History Thread II...

[North King]

Here's one to boggle your minds. Since I didn't spend more than just 4 or 5 hours on it, and don't have that much invested in it, if someone wants to use it, then they can go ahead. It's a cool PoD, if not one of my best map drawing times. Otherwise, guess the PoD.

Year is 1830 AD.

 

[ThomAnder]

Something to do with age of exploration?

 

[Oruc]

The Dinosaurs werent wiped out and eventually developed their own nations that have slightly similar borders to our own in a few places

 

[Swissempire]

PoD, is it when the white settlers cam over, the Native Americans were a) more advanced or b) immune to European Diseases.

 

[North King]

Something to do with age of exploration?

Earlier.

PoD, is it when the white settlers cam over, the Native Americans were a) more advanced or b) immune to European Diseases.

No, wrong hemisphere. But European settlement was much slower.

 

[Disenfrancised]

Europe, particularly spain sucks for some reason (those all look like Amerindian nations)...no enlightenment, lack of some technical development?

 

[The Farow]

I think it has to do something with something much earlier then the Age of Exploration since it seems the Byzantines are still around. The Turks never seem to have captured Constantinople unless some nation revived the Byzantine Empire.

 

[North King]

But Spain *does* have a considerable amount of territory in Egypt. It's not really any fault of Europe that it's only average on the world level.

EDIT: And the Turks never captured Constantinople. In fact, the Turkish state in Anatolia is about 5 years old only, before that it was a Crusader state.

 

[The Farow]

Does it have something to do with Constantinople not being sacked by crusaders?

 

[Dachs]

Is the PoD Crusader, some guy did/didn't go on the Crusades and did/didn't die on them, therefore...changing the path of European colonization?

Adding to the Farow: Yeah, did the Pope get Enrico Dandolo off of his insane genocidal anti-Greek rampage (I hate Dandolo. Baby-killer. And at 95 years old!)

EDIT: Doublepost. Duh.

 

[North King]

No, the Crusades themselves were not really part of the PoD. In fact, one could even say the Crusades, at least in their last few incarnations, numbers 5 and up, were not against the Muslims at all, but the Mongols.

 

[Dachs]

The Khakhan doesn't die at such an inconvenient point?

Mongols win Ain Jalut?

 

[Insane_Panda]

Psh all these medieval PoDs are BORANG.

 

[The Farow]

Did the Mongols advance much farther then in our timeline?
Don't know much about Mongolian history..

Edit: Is that giant pink nation Poland?

 

[North King]

Nor do you need to know much about Mongol history. The PoD is earlier. In an area of the world not often explored in medieval PoDs.

 

[The Farow]

So what period in the Medieval Ages?

 

[Dachs]

Khazars? Victory for the Poles at Liegnitz?

Somewhere in India? Khwarezm never develops as an empire?

 

[Oruc]

I still say its them Dinosaurs

 

[North King]

None of the above. It's in the 1000-1050 period.

Well actually, you might consider it in India; definitely in India culturally speaking, it certainly has very direct effects on the political climate of India. But the event is not strictly in India itself.

And it's not a single battle, more a war that went better for a certain nation than it did in OTL.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Hmm, that's quite a large polish empire there. Must be quite a few centuries after the POD.