How would you change history?
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Brian Shanahan
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We might have invented alcahol, but we didn't invent alcaholism, otherwise we would have never driven the Vikings into the sea at Clontarf.
Your Australia idea, can see it now, Emperor Ned I of the Kelly dynasty annexing Ireland in the name of the Australian empire.
Your Australia idea, can see it now, Emperor Ned I of the Kelly dynasty annexing Ireland in the name of the Australian empire.
Nah, you just hadn't done as much drinking as usual that day.
Actually, it was Emperor Ned of the Kelly family who rose up in rebellion, toppling first the Victorian, then all the other British colonial governments. It never really covered what happened in New Zealand or Ireland in the story, but it mentioned the Fenians in the US funneling a tonne of cash into the new empire. It was told from the point of view of an English mutineer who sided with the Kellys, helping them spring their trap at Glenrowan and being put in charge of procuring an Australian - or New Eire, as it became came - fleet to battle the British. Could have been quite the alt-history if the guy had followed up on it.
Aquila SPQR
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Asassination of Muhammad and Jesus in their childhood. Then technology help for Romans. Roma Aeterna!
Huayna Capac357
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Except that by 570 Rome had fallen.
TIMELINE FAIL
TIMELINE FAIL
ParkCungHee
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That WOULD be an interesting change, to have the Irish defeat the vikings at Clontarf.
Aquila SPQR
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Well, I thought it was clear when I wrote about both Jesus and Muhammad that it would require more than one "trip". So no timeline fail
Vandal Warlord
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The Romans would have been destroyed by the Barbarian hordes none-the-less. And if you give the Roman machine guns then you may have damned us all.
I'd have Jan Sobieski lose the Battle of Khotyn, but NOBODY IS PAYING ATTENTION RAEG
Needs moar Afrikaners with AKs amirite
I would immunize the entire Western Hemisphere, then teach the secrets of transoceanic sailing to the Romans. Contact is inevitbale, but the earlier it happens the better most likely.
Great, so that the Indians can kill all of us with syphilis, and live out their dreams of sacrificing their enemies by the thousands in peace?
Hmm, you're right. I wouldn't want syphilis making its way to the Old World somehow, that would mess history up too much.
My point was that we European-types would get syphilis, yet they'd be immunised - if syphilis came from the New World in the first place, something I doubt. Immunise us all, ya cheeky bugger.
Well, that would be great, but I would place a higher priority on immunizing the inhabitants of the New World, since historically infectious diseases had a huge impact on their populations, far more than in reverse.
Might as well immunise the Aborigines and Pacific Islanders while you're on the job. And give them 'firewater' before the Romans do, so they can get used to it.
Kill off Friedrich Wilhelm II before he can succeed to the Prussian throne. Having Heinrich in charge would make the already incredibly interesting 1780s and 1790s get even friggin better.
Unless you butterfly the bejeezus out of things I doubt that'll have much of a real impact.
Thisthisthisthisthisthis is so frigging important.
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Well clearly something has been changed dramatically already if the Irish are fighting the "vikings" at Clantarf, rather then the forces of Lienster.
I think it could have interesting knock-on effects for the Catholic reconversion of Austria to just not go as well as it did during the last three decades of the 16th century. A lot of factors had to align properly, a few important people needed to work together, and the Habsburgs kinda got lucky that things worked out the way they did.
Not that dramatically. Weren't there a ton of Norse mercs in the Leinster army anyway, from like Norse Dublin and such?Well clearly something has been changed dramatically already if the Irish are fighting the "vikings" at Clantarf, rather then the forces of Lienster.
Not sure : Without Christians, maybe not monotheim as "dominant" religion in the Empire. The others religions were far more tolerant, and monotheists have the habit to be more loyal to their priests than to their country.
Christianity was a big blunder to the liberties and to the progress in the Empire.
Vandal Warlord
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Correct, but this still had little to do with the collapse. The Romans were too adament to allow anyone who wasn't Roman born into their society.
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