This area arranges various PODs by their geographic and or civilizational association.
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Middle East and Islam
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Europe and Anglo-saxony
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Literature
Generic textwall AH: Cuba without communism
Alright, this is the first of these ATLs. Basically my "generic AH" series but these won't get even a regional map or anything. Yes, not all of the "generic AHs" get maps, but these ones are definites for it. Anyways, this is a world with a non-communist Cuba. The POD is simple, a pair of brothers move to Miami to seek success in baseball in the 1930s. They achieve it, but this isn't about Fidel and Raul Castro but about the country they left behind.
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1957 TO 2018
The changes stemming from the United States merely having yet another generic latin american country next door are minor in the early years. The most notable is in the late 19
Latindom
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Literature
Australia: resource superpower
No map this time, just a scenario.
As inspired by an old thread of Jared(Yes, the same guy who wrote Decades of darkness). the POD involves somewhat different geological history for Australia, but the world remains convergent until 1930. The change comes when Lasseter returns from a successful expedition into the outback to find a massive reef of gold. This is followed up by a bright young, and unemployed geologist finding black gold in 1931 in another part of the outback.
Aside from headlines about Australia's resource bounty along with slightly worse paranoia about Japanese invasion, there isn't that much of an effect for the depression
Oceania and Polynesia
1
Literature
Earlier AIDS
Because you may have thought I had gone soft here's a scenario 'inspired' by one Tak Loufer did on soc.history.what-if a decade ago. I've kept much of his original derangement and expanded with my own.
The divergence for this one is the AIDS virus starting to spread in a big way 15 years earlier than OTL. The knockon effects from this are nanturally unpleasant for all concerned. Thanks to mishaps involving villagers eating a bad dish of tasty monkey-brains in the 1940s. the timetable for HIV's getting to the point where it breaks out of a small patch of jungle and into the wider world is sped up about 15 years.
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Africa
1
Literature
5500 AD
It is somewhere in the middle of what, in some calendars is the middle of the 6th millenium. Somewhere between 5350 and 5650 if you must have exact dates -- given the differences between timeframe involves the locaiton of the furthest out colonies/places with robot terraformers and some worlds have fallen from civilizaiton this isn't hugely important unless you're on one of those worlds that fell in between those two years. On the upside, it's not a dystopia per se. On the downside... no singularity.
It's one of those futures, the ones without FTL or aliens. No transhuman singularities or AI smarter than the theoretical human maximum, and wh
Space
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Literature
Aliens: The Tenzykyr
THE HOMEWORLD
The planet dust, and as named by the not the most imaginitive Tenzkyr, Dust System isn't all that unusual. You have a small, yellow sun as the center of the system. There is a gas giant relatively close by with two useless worlds, one potentially useful world[2] and a surprise -- a dry, dusty world with life with a size/mass about half of Dust all orbiting it. Basically a marginal, if perfectly acceptable potential world for colonization. There is another living desert planet located on the other side from the Tenzkyr homeworld, then next to last is the mars-sized but a habitable (surprise) desert moon. These other planets and
Other civilizations or offworld
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Literature
Generic AH: Qing China survives Part II of II
*** THE EMPIRE OF THE QING Much has changed in China since 1898, even if the monarchy still exists and bureaucrats wear robes. Despite being an authoritarian, nationalistic government with strongly statist economic policies the Qing Empire isn't just a rightwing version of OTL's People's Republic of China even if there are similarities such as having a large secret police[1], an economic agenda focused on modernization to name two examples. One of the biggest differences in China's retaining confucian-style "collective responsibility' and using the bao jia/household system as the means for surveillance/taxation/distributing welfare. Anoher strong difference is that China is structurally theoretically[2] an abolutist monarchy, as opposed to a party-state. Despite no communism, China's economy is only relatively as large as OTL's due to the United States not seeing any reasons to let east asia's exporters run one-way trade wars combined with the Qing favoring