What if...

[Bast]

What if the Earth had no moon?
How would man develop with only starlight at night, no tides, etc.

Forget man, this might've had a huge impact on evolution of life on Earth. Man might've never arrived.

What if Mars had orbited the sun closer and had a tectonic plates and thus kept an ocean and life also evolved there? What if Mars was Earth II? I think this will only be interesting if intelligent life evolved there, otherwise we'll just colonize it and exploit the resources.

 

[Cannae]

What if the Natives of North and South America sailed to Europe and coloinized it?

 

[Israelite9191]

what I meant with this if was, if they werent so successful maybe there was not greedy people try to murder them.

I know, but I was wondering if you had a specific point in history that, if changed, could have that result. That is what a POD is (Point Of Divergence). When doing alt-history it is important to work from a POD forward, rather than working from an end result going backward.

@Slavic Sioux- Same question for you. Do you have a particular POD? As I said, in alt-history you need to start with a POD, not a result.

 

[raen]

I know, but I was wondering if you had a specific point in history that, if changed, could have that result. That is what a POD is (Point Of Divergence). When doing alt-history it is important to work from a POD forward, rather than working from an end result going backward.

Humm, thanks for clarifiing what is POD, I was not realy seeing what it was, but I have none, I simply ask retorical questions without an answer.

Besides Im not an historian, and I was the worse in my class, I like history for itself tough.

 

[Israelite9191]

Ah. Sorry, I am used to the Alternate History Threads in the Never Ending Stories subforum, where people are very used to alt-hist lingo and procedure. Actually, your first proposition (the one about King Sebastião) is a very interesting POD. Unfortunately, my knowledge of Portuguese history is near nill.

 

[Verbose]

That is what a POD is (Point Of Divergence).

Ah, the theory of Trouser Legs of Time.

 

[Dell19]

Jingo is one of my favourite discworld books.

 

[MCdread]

What if the Dutch (who were the first to Brazil) had given the Inca musket technology before the Spanish conquered them?

Huh? The dutch weren't the first in Brazil by a long shot, and when the dutch actually started sailing seriously, the Incas had already been conquered decades ago.

 

[drudkh44]

mmmmm......

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I didnt know that there were Incas in the Amazon either.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

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