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Doug's Alternate History Site

History is full of turning points: battles lost that could have been won, difficult decisions that could have gone either way, kings or presidents who died but could have lived, and so on. Alternate history is speculation, speculation about what might have been had things happened differently. History is full of forks in the road, and the world we live in is a result of the paths taken in the past. But it did not have to be that way.

Imagine a world where Rome never fell, where the Central Powers won the First World war, or where the Axis won the Second or a world where Carthage, the Confederacy or the Aztec Empire live on in the Twentieth Century. Worlds where the inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci kicked off an Industrial Revolution during the Italian Renaissance, where the Black Death annihilated Europe altogether, or where China's emperors had sent their huge seafaring junks rounding the Cape to Europe or crossing the Pacific to America.

Of course America wouldn't be "America" in such a world, and that is what alternate history is all about: postulating what would the world be like if things had gone the other way. I have posted a few timelines here, recounting what I (or others) think would have, or at least could have, happened if history had been otherwise. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me at: douglas.hoff@gmail.com