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[Guyverman1990]

Hi guys,

Do you mind if we share a discussion about if various important historical events took different turns, whether they be slight or major and how it would affect life afterwards up until today?

For example :

• What if Hannibal managed to defeat Rome?
  
• What If America won Vietnam?
  
• What if the Printing Press was invented in Rome?
  
• What if Imperial Russia beat Japan in the Russo-Japanese war? http://en.wikipedia....so-Japanese_War

Note : I do not wish to talk about an alternate outcome for WWII because that's already pretty much been done to death.

[Logically Irrational]

The big one:

What if Leopold Lojka hadn't made a right turn?

[Guyverman1990]

The big one:

What if Leopold Lojka hadn't made a right turn?

Perhaps World War I would've never happened.

Also, If the Soveits beat The United States to the moon, perhaps the Cold war would've lasted into the 21st century (assuming Nuclear war didn't break out eventually).

And if The Confederacy won the Civil war, they would've temporarily been independant because they likely would not have had a strong economy and rejoined the US around the 1880's. As a result, it would've postponed America reaching status as a superpower and legal slavery would've not been abolished worldwide until the early 20th century.

Edited by Guyverman1990, 27 March 2012 - 02:29 AM.

[Shimmy]

What if Mohammed had died as an infant

[eacao]

What if Jesus was never conceived?
What if the wright brothers never tried to build their plane?
What if the US lost the war of independence?
What if Australia was divided between the French and the British?
What if the Russians had captured Von Braun?
What if marijuana had always been legal?

[RCM88x]

What if Napoleon completely took over Europe in the 1810's?
What if funding to the Apollo program was never cut of in the 1970's?
What if humanity never fell into the dark ages for almost 1000 years?

Edited by RCM88x, 28 March 2012 - 03:42 AM.

[Time_Traveller]

What If Hitler wasn't born or became a Artist?

[Guyverman1990]

What if Mohammed had died as an infant

Then Islam would've never spread and the Arabs would've adopted Christianity

What if the US lost the war of independence?
What if the wright brothers never tried to build their plane?
What if marijuana had always been legal?

Canada will be much larger and the British Empire would've lasted another 40 years.
We would never have flying machines or spaceships.
The drug wars of today will be much less severe.

What if funding to the Apollo program was never cut of in the 1970's?

We'd have moon bases by now.

What If Hitler wasn't born or became a Artist?

Some other fascist individual would've became leader of Germany and start WWII.

Also, if America had won Vietnam, all of South East Asia would've been capitalist democracies and the Soviet Union would've never invaded Afganistan (thus leading to no 9/11) and it would've collapsed sooner. Additionally the Shah of Iran would've remained in power because America would've not been crippled and demoralized after loosing Vietnam, thus their support would have been a lot stronger.

If the Printing press was invented in Rome, then the Dark age would've not been quite as severe, because a lot more people would have been literate, tons of knowledge would've not been lost and perhaps Latin would've lasted a little longer.

Edited by Guyverman1990, 29 March 2012 - 03:15 AM.

[Shimmy]

What if the wright brothers never tried to build their plane?

We would never have flying machines or spaceships.

Wait, what?
at the very worst early flight might've been delayed a few years.
That's like saying if Mr Caveman hadn't invented the wheel, no-one else ever would've thought of it and we wouldn't have any cars.

But more importantly:
What if Martin Luther King had been Mexican

[Time_Traveller]

What if the Titanic never sunk?
What if Amelia Earhart wasn't lost?
What if the British won the American Revolution War?
What if the British won the war of 1812?
What if Spain or Mexico founded the New World?
What if the Roman Empire still existed?
What if the Gunpowder Plot was a success?
What if the Asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs never hit the Earth?

Edited by Time_Traveller, 30 March 2012 - 09:10 PM.

[Shimmy]

What if the Titanic never sunk?
What if Amelia Earhart wasn't lost?
What if Spain or Mexico founded the New World?

I'm pretty sure the first two wouldn't make any noticeable difference to the world other than some minor popular culture issues, though perhaps someone rich on the titanic may have founded a large investment bank...

As for Mexico discovering the new world, I have a sneaky suspicion they perhaps found it before any europeans did..

[SG-1]

What if Bill Gates never existed?
What if Steve Jobs never overcharged for his crApple products?

What if the cold war ended up turning into a nuclear war?

[Guyverman1990]

What if Bill Gates never existed?
What if Steve Jobs never overcharged for his crApple products?

What if the cold war ended up turning into a nuclear war?

Then we'd never have Microsoft.

Just as the idea of Hitler winning WWII, the idea of USA vs USSR Nuclear War has already been done to death.

[eacao]

What if women were given equal rights from the beginning
What if Nikola Tesla had been given the funding to give everyone free and wireless electricity
What if Gandhi was never born
What if egypt had expanded up through europe at a steady rate, and never collapsed

most significant of all - what if I was never born

[Time_Traveller]

What if Robert Scott's South Pole succeeded in 1912?
What if Japan never attacked Pearl Harbour?
What if JFK or Lincoln wasn't assassinated?
What if Alexander the Great never existed?
What if Aluminium was never invented?
What if the Americans never dropped an atomic bomb on Japan?
What if Argentina colonised the Falklands islands years before Britain?
What if Thomas Edison never invented the Light Bulb?

Edited by Time_Traveller, 31 March 2012 - 08:51 PM.

[Guyverman1990]

What if Gandhi was never born

Than India would've been controlled by Britain for at least another Century.

What if Japan never attacked Pearl Harbour?
What if JFK or Lincoln wasn't assassinated?
What if Aluminium was never invented?
What if the Americans never dropped an atomic bomb on Japan??
What if Thomas Edison never invented the Light Bulb?

Japan would've never entered WWII
There would be much less metal in our lives
We'd still need to use oil lamps

[Time_Traveller]

What if Queen Elizabeth I never existed?
What if the Spanish Armada invaded?
What if Edward VI was never ill and carried on the throne after age 15?

Edited by Time_Traveller, 02 April 2012 - 07:33 AM.

[Time_Traveller]

What if Marilyn Monroe never died in the 1960's?

[Shimmy]

What if the film Titanic was released before the actual sinking of the Titanic?
What if Chinese people had evolved to be 4 times stronger than any other race?
What if Russia had nuked their own capital of Moscow in 1972?

[h.g.Whiz]

What if Hitler had died in 1938?