What would you change about history?

[Staythefout]

I'd have mccain win in 08.

[Jacobania]

I would've taught Homo Erectus how to read and write.

[Forum-Rper]

Make it so Incest is required by the Constitution of America.

[Finland SSR]

Alien Space Bats put that little bit of neo-Confederate apologist bullshit to bed weeks ago.

Alien Space Bats... wut.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_space_bats

[Arenthian Dominion]

If I could change one thing about history, i'd likely have made it so the British Empire never declined, thus never collapsing. The Empire would still exist today.

[L Ron Cupboard]

Ada Lovelace would win big on the horses.

[Meryuma]

Historians will tell you that the Dark Ages are a myth that came out of the enlightenment.

iirc 500-800 was a "dark age", but not in an emotionally negative sense. Rather, it was a dark age in that literacy was low, and as such we're "in the dark" about what was happening then.

I'd help the Mali Empire discover the Americas.

The whole story of the Malinese musa who abdicated to find the western shore of the Atlantic just fascinates me. Mali would probably take native slaves from the Americas and convert the population to Islam, but they'd likely be laxer about cultural practices than the Europeans and not carry smallpox.

As bad as it is, the Westboro Baptist Church does not behead apostates and infidels, does not commit mass murder, does not commit mass rape, does not partake in the slave trade, and does not actively seek to established a Christian theocratic state through force of arms.

They don't, but try the KKK or the Lord's Resistance Army.

What's that, you might say? They're not True Christians? Now you know how every other Muslim sect feels about Daesh.

[Old Tyrannia]

I'd probably refrain from changing history at all, for fear of inadvertently making everything worse. In the spirit of the thread, however, I'd like to make it so that King Charles I won the English Civil War, or better yet was able to come to some sort of agreement with Parliament so that the war never actually happens.

[Wolfmanne2]

I'd prevent the Rwandan Genocide

I'm surprised that you are literally the first person to the say that.

My Dad always like to go on about how he was at business conference that proclaimed Rwanda to be the 'Switzerland of Africa'. Two weeks before the genocide. How Rwanda could had been different had the genocide not have occurred.

I'd probably refrain from changing history at all, for fear of inadvertently making everything worse. In the spirit of the thread, however, I'd like to make it so that King Charles I won the English Civil War, or better yet was able to come to some sort of agreement with Parliament so that the war never actually happens.

Hmm, the stuff I could do with English history.

Personally, if I had to alter English history, I'd allow a plot to seat Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne of England, to succeed. It would be interesting to see how a unified Catholic England and Scotland would had proceeded. Granted a civil war would follow, but all that would change is that the English Civil War will have occurred far earlier than it did and that it would be more religious in nature.

[Conscentia]

I'd probably refrain from changing history at all, for fear of inadvertently making everything worse. In the spirit of the thread, however, I'd like to make it so that King Charles I won the English Civil War, or better yet was able to come to some sort of agreement with Parliament so that the war never actually happens.

You could just say that'd you reverse what you did if it isn't a net improvement.

[Genivaria]

I'm surprised that you are literally the first person to the say that.

My Dad always like to go on about how he was at business conference that proclaimed Rwanda to be the 'Switzerland of Africa'. Two weeks before the genocide. How Rwanda could had been different had the genocide not have occurred.

I'd probably refrain from changing history at all, for fear of inadvertently making everything worse. In the spirit of the thread, however, I'd like to make it so that King Charles I won the English Civil War, or better yet was able to come to some sort of agreement with Parliament so that the war never actually happens.

Hmm, the stuff I could do with English history.

Personally, if I had to alter English history, I'd allow a plot to seat Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne of England, to succeed. It would be interesting to see how a unified Catholic England and Scotland would had proceeded. Granted a civil war would follow, but all that would change is that the English Civil War will have occurred far earlier than it did and that it would be more religious in nature.

I'd have someone a bit less extreme then Cromwell become leader of the Commonwealth.

A liberal democracy in the middle ages is something of a fantasy of mine.

[The Wolven League]

My Dad always like to go on about how he was at business conference that proclaimed Rwanda to be the 'Switzerland of Africa'. Two weeks before the genocide. How Rwanda could had been different had the genocide not have occurred.


Hmm, the stuff I could do with English history.

Personally, if I had to alter English history, I'd allow a plot to seat Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne of England, to succeed. It would be interesting to see how a unified Catholic England and Scotland would had proceeded. Granted a civil war would follow, but all that would change is that the English Civil War will have occurred far earlier than it did and that it would be more religious in nature.

I'd have someone a bit less extreme then Cromwell become leader of the Commonwealth.

A liberal democracy in the middle ages is something of a fantasy of mine.

That sounds highly implausible, but whatever :/

[Conscentia]

I'd have someone a bit less extreme then Cromwell become leader of the Commonwealth.

A liberal democracy in the middle ages is something of a fantasy of mine.

Perhaps in a city-state it'd be achievable, but without rapid travel or telecommunication maintaining a liberal democracy in the Medieval Period across a whole nation-state would be very difficult and perhaps infeasible.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

I'd have someone a bit less extreme then Cromwell become leader of the Commonwealth.

A liberal democracy in the middle ages is something of a fantasy of mine.

That sounds highly implausible, but whatever :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino

Better than most of the "serene republics" of the time.

[The Greater Lebanon]

Space exploration would have continued even more after the American Apollo landings.

[The Wolven League]

Space exploration would have continued even more after the American Apollo landings.

Which would waste most government funds on such projects.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

Space exploration would have continued even more after the American Apollo landings.

Which would waste most government funds on such projects.

Still more efficient than what we get out of funding our public education.

[The Greater Lebanon]

Space exploration would have continued even more after the American Apollo landings.

Which would waste most government funds on such projects.

You dont think that the U.S. Should have continued? Sure it is an American program but really in the end it benefits all mankind. I always thought that pushing further into space was better on the long term for us humans. Whether it was the Russians or Americans or whoever.

[Kahrdinuhlpuhf]

Erase ash'ari thinking from existence.

[Rusozak]

I would have Poland, not Russia, become Eastern Europe's dominant power. Finally, Poland can into space.

[Librica]

I would have Poland, not Russia, become Eastern Europe's dominant power. Finally, Poland can into space.

Did you the whole thing?

[The Princes of the Universe]

I would have Poland, not Russia, become Eastern Europe's dominant power. Finally, Poland can into space.

What would you change to make this possible though?

[Sun Wukong]

I would have Poland, not Russia, become Eastern Europe's dominant power. Finally, Poland can into space.

What would you change to make this possible though?

Kazan annexes Muscovy.

Mostly because "Kazan" is a cool name.

[Ifreann]

What would you change to make this possible though?

Kazan annexes Muscovy.

Mostly because "Kazan" is a cool name.

It's no Nogai.

[Sun Wukong]

Kazan annexes Muscovy.

Mostly because "Kazan" is a cool name.

It's no Nogai.

Does anyone else find it hilarious that the Muscovite Flag is literally killing the Kazan standard?

That's an impressive bit of spite when you say, "we hate this country so much we're putting murdering them on our flag."