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There are games devoted to this, best known is probably Europa Universalis IV [1] and the corresponding reddit [2] often shows maps in alternate histories, aptly named "map porn". There are challenging achievements in the game, such as: - Become the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Spain. - As Byzantium, restore the old borders (i.e., stop and reverse the Ottoman conquest in the 15th century) - As France, own Vien…
So there is a fairly big and active community about Alternatice histories. AlternateHistory.com is by far the biggest and there are active youtube channels One of the biggest you tubers recently got outed following a white supremiscit rant - and that is one of the bigger "smells" around the community - histories of "what if the Nazis won and what if the South won US civil war" can spring not from curiosity but yearni…
"just how contingent the world is" I must admit I have a morbid fascination with alternate histories of the Cold War and all the terrible things that almost happened in that period but for the good judgement of people on both sides of that conflict. We were so close on so many occasions to utter oblivion... [NB I'm in the UK - which would, like most of Europe, come out rather badly had the nukes started flying].
https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/1983:_Doomsday
It's one of the most massive collaborative world-building projects of its kind.
https://hypotheticalhurricanes.fandom.com/wiki/Typhoon_Hagup...
There are games devoted to this, best known is probably Europa Universalis IV [1] and the corresponding reddit [2] often shows maps in alternate histories, aptly named "map porn". There are challenging achievements in the game, such as: - Become the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Spain. - As Byzantium, restore the old borders (i.e., stop and reverse the Ottoman conquest in the 15th century) - As France, own Vien…
This one actually happened under Charles V (Charles I of Spain).
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"just how contingent the world is" I must admit I have a morbid fascination with alternate histories of the Cold War and all the terrible things that almost happened in that period but for the good judgement of people on both sides of that conflict. We were so close on so many occasions to utter oblivion... [NB I'm in the UK - which would, like most of Europe, come out rather badly had the nukes started flying].
You might appreciate the seminal amateur work on that subject, 1983: Doomsday https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/1983:_Doomsday It's one of the most massive collaborative world-building projects of its kind.
[26th September 1983 was not long after my 18th birthday and a few days before I started a course at a university in the centre of Edinburgh].
So there is a fairly big and active community about Alternatice histories. AlternateHistory.com is by far the biggest and there are active youtube channels One of the biggest you tubers recently got outed following a white supremiscit rant - and that is one of the bigger "smells" around the community - histories of "what if the Nazis won and what if the South won US civil war" can spring not from curiosity but yearni…
On maps, I find it surprising and hilarious that the UN has a flat earth map on its logo! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Nations
On maps, I find it surprising and hilarious that the UN has a flat earth map on its logo! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Nations
Could you explain why you find it so funny? Are you proposing their flag should be spherical instead of a flat sheet?
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuthal_equidistant_projecti...
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Could you explain why you find it so funny? Are you proposing their flag should be spherical instead of a flat sheet?
I think GP means that the projection used appears to be an Azimuthal equidistant projection [0] - which doesn't really make it a 'flat Earth map' as such, but if the Earth were flat I suppose it would be the only logical (non) projection. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuthal_equidistant_projecti...
So there is a fairly big and active community about Alternatice histories. AlternateHistory.com is by far the biggest and there are active youtube channels One of the biggest you tubers recently got outed following a white supremiscit rant - and that is one of the bigger "smells" around the community - histories of "what if the Nazis won and what if the South won US civil war" can spring not from curiosity but yearni…
I'd be more interesting in alternate histories where, for example, western Europe never rose to power (it was pretty much a backwater during the Roman age and only crept forward slowly during the Middle Ages; it was colonialism that made it insanely rich and influential).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt
> The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2002. The novel explores how world history might have been different if the Black Death plague had killed 99% of Europe's population, instead of a third as it did in reality. Divided into ten parts, the story spans hundreds of years, from the army of the Muslim conqueror Timur to the 21st century, with Europe being re-populated by Muslim pioneers, the indigenous peoples of the Americas forming a league to resist Chinese and Muslim invaders, and a 67-year-long world war being fought primarily between Muslim states and the Chinese and their allies. While the ten parts take place in different times and places, they are connected by a group of characters that are reincarnated into each time but are identified to the reader by the first letter of their name being consistent in each life.
> The novel explores themes of history, religion, and social movements. The historical narrative is guided more by social history than political or military history. Critics found the book to be rich in detail, realistic, and thoughtful. The Years of Rice and Salt won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2003. In the same year it was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a Hugo Award, and a British Science Fiction Award.