50 ideias para universos ficcionais alternativos

Need some inspiration for an alternate history scenario? Need a point in time for your alternate timeline to diverge? Here’s a list of 50 questions to excite your imagination, invalidate your history textbooks, and infuriate your stuffy childhood history teacher.

What if…

What if Charles Darwin had sought political office?
What if the Ottoman Empire had succeeded in capturing Vienna in 1529?
What if Queen Elizabeth I had never been born?
What if King Henry VIII had been impotent?
What if the Russian “October Revolution” had failed?
What if there were no such thing as horses?
What if the US had received advanced intelligence about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
What if Boudica (Boadicea) had won the Battle of Watling Street?
What if the Vikings never went viking and just stayed at home instead?
What if Neanderthals had not become extinct?

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