Verbose
Deity
The really interesting possibility might have been the Gauls never getting creamed by Caesar, which might have shifted political power in Europe more towards the northwest and away from the Mediterranean centuries early.
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Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
Shouldn't that be "mathematician who invented arabic numeral system dies at the age of I"?
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
I was assuming they were real.
Okay, heres another one that popped into my head:
What if... the Warring States of China somehow permanently separated in the same manner the Roman Empire permanently "collapsed", meaning that a number of centuries after the Zhou Dynasty, the various states such as Qin or Shu were completely independent international entities?
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Bartholomaï
Warlord
I was assuming they were real.
Okay, heres another one that popped into my head:
What if... the Warring States of China somehow permanently separated in the same manner the Roman Empire permanently "collapsed", meaning that a number of centuries after the Zhou Dynasty, the various states such as Qin or Shu were completely independent international entities?
Japan would have still conquered it during WW2 and after they retreated at the end of the war, there would some kind of Europe like "Chinese Union"
Here's mine:
What if there was some kind of fair Treaty of Versailles, and Europe would unite X years later.
Would Europe still have colonies today? Would there still be a cold war?
Would the US be as big as today? Would the world be more peaceful because
Europe still controls half the world?
holy king
Deity
edit: forget it...
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Japan may have not even existed as we know it if there was no unified China.
although i suppose there could be some kind of "chinese union". "middle kingdom union". "non-barbarian union".
...
What if it was the Byzantines, and not the Chinese, that first developed gunpowder (let's just say Theodora did it
)?
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
I doubt it- NW Europe didn't become the centre of European power until the Industrial Era, long after the fall of Rome.
In fact, if anything, NW Europe would take longer to develop, as a limit on Roman power may have prevented it collapsing as it did, so Europe would never have fallen into the Dark Ages and the Industrial Revolution may have begun in Italy (or elsewhere in the Mediterranean), rather than in Britain.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Civilization may have never been developed.
And we could all be dead or eating each other.
...
What if... assuming the Bible is correct in its present form, Moses never got to the Red Sea and instead the Egyptians caught up with him, caputred him, and took him and the Jews back to Egypt?
If the Bible is correct in its present form, then God was behind the whole thing and it was inevitable.
Reminds me of a what if story someone once wrote about Jesus not being crucified. He said that Christians would consider the scenario blasphemous; but really, Christians would just see it as irrelevant.
Reminds me of a what if story someone once wrote about Jesus not being crucified. He said that Christians would consider the scenario blasphemous; but really, Christians would just see it as irrelevant.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
^er... you know what i mean.
D'Artagnan59
The Gascon
What if America never declared independence?
Or Rome was still the strongest country in the world today?
Or Rome was still the strongest country in the world today?
EconomistBR
King
What if there had been no BiG Bang???
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
This thread was better with the initial outragous scenario rather than everyone just posting their own stupid scenarios. I hereby move to return to the original crazy topic.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
What if... a freak hurricane blasted apart half of China in the 11th century (Song Dynasty), say about 1025, causing widespread destruction and stagnation in the central and southern parts of the country?
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
I think that was the idea- I mean, the OPs words were "I'll start it off". Carries certain implications, no?
@Cyberxkhan- That'd be one hell of a hurricane... I suppose what'd happen is that, during the Mongol conquests, Ghenghis would have continued south to conquer all of China rather than heading of to Pesia. This would probably lead to the Mongols becoming more quickly Sinicised and so they would not have expanded their empire to the extent they did. This would have a huge domino effect, of course, probably have a considerable effect on the development of Eurasian history. For example, it may have prevented the Bubonic Plague from spreading, which would have prevented capitalism from growing in Europe and lead to industrialism emerging much more slowly.
cubsfan6506
Got u
classical_hero
In whom I trust
What if Mohammed converted to Christianity?
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