Fantastic another Contro-History, this time we're talking about Christianity! No, controversy there.....Anyway we explore what the world could be like if Christianity just didn't ever exist. No religion involved, no politics. Just straight up history.
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Horses changed the course of history, but they almost didn't arrive in Asia. What would happen if horses never existed?
There was once a secret group who wished for the South to take over a large part of Latin America, to expand slavery and compete with the North. Could it have worked? Eh. Well, it's interesting to talk about anyway.
There was once an extinction that wiped out so much life on Earth, it was practically a reset button. So what if that button was never, pushed? Life goes down a far different path.
No spoilers in this. In Infinity War, Thanos wiped out half of all life to "save life", but how would that work out in the real world? No Endgame, no resolution. What is the aftermath for Earth if half of life died in an instant?
The nuclear bomb brought on a new fear. Us destroying ourselves. We've come close many times, and the question always is raised, what if we just never invented nukes? The world isn't as peaceful as you'd think.
Tyrion is smart, but not that smart. I wanted to rant about Game of Thrones so here we are.
Will there be war with Iran? Probably not. But here is a last minute school survival guide to let you know what to expect if next time tensions escalate into another unsolvable conflict.
Napoleon lost at Waterloo. But what if he didn't? What if he didn't make the other numerous mistakes? I don't know, watch the video.
Have you never really given the Great Lakes much thought? That's okay, because they've transformed your life in far more ways than you'd think. Even if you're not from North America.
Red Alert had a pretty bonkers story. And since it's alternate history, and was a major influence on me as a kid, I'm gonna talk about it. Pretty badly.
For 40 years, Afghanistan has been in constant war. Before it was the US's problems, it was the Soviet's. And the "enemy of my enemy" of the time, just became giving power to a new enemy.
Let's talk about what was probably the worst geopolitical decision this decade. How the Kurds got tossed under the bus, and how we got here.
In the 1980's the Soviets sent troops into Afghanistan. It changed everything. You know what it is. So what if that never happened? Here is one short and sweet scenario.
The southern-most continent isn't really thought about by the rest of the world. It's a cold wasteland, except for penguins. But what if it was just as warm as any other landmass? Here is one scenario.
The Roman Empire never rose. In its place is a series of various kingdoms, competing for power for what Europe, will even be. Christianity remains a small faith in the Near East without the Empire to spread it. Carthagian ships spread its wealth and power across the West. Greece competes with it on the high seas. But on a peninsula far from Europe, a new power still rises to redefine the landscape.
The 2010s sure were crazy weren't they. How will history remember the 2010s? Will future generations see it as a terrible time, or not that bad? After much deliberation, here is my take.
India is home to one of the oldest civilizations, spanning back millennia. And in a period of a few centuries the entire sub-continent was acquired by a private business that used it for profit. Story time.
Recent events have shown me this needed to be made. In 2016 America was changed forever, and we're never going back. I'm often not political, but I cant take it anymore.
A company took over India, but colonial rule continued that legacy. What if India was never colonized by the British or any European power for that matter? Here is one alternate scenario.
Imagine a timeline where you look up at the night sky and see a living world. Wouldnt that be wacky. Here is one alternate scenario where the Moon is just as habitable as the Earth. What type of life might live there? Would humans colonize it? Find out.
I felt like talking about architecture. Since we're all stuck inside buildings for the time being, lets discuss wacky structures that could have existed maybe.
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg is a mod for the game Hearts of Iron IV. One that crafted an alternate world where the Central Powers won WWI, and set the 20th century down a different path. Yet this victory, was only the start. This video is a brief overview on the complicated alternate history lore that Kaiserreich created. All that occurs before 1936, when tensions finally boil over.
There once was a state in Latin America that encompassed Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. It was called Gran Colombia. And after about a decade it collapsed. But what if in an alternate timeline it didnt? Here is one quick alternate scenario.
Civilization may feel like its ending. But there was a time where it really actually did. A time before the Romans, Greeks or Parthians that was forgotten until modern archeology. The Bronze Age. So what if the Bronze Age collapse never actually happened and the societies from it continued onward? Here is one scenario.
Its often wondered what the Soviet Union could have become if just one man had taken over, instead of Stalin. A surprisingly long-lasting mythos of Trotsky. So what would actually had happened if he had taken over after Lenin? Here is one scenario.
The Eastern Romans survived for a millennia after the fall of the West before their own demise from the Ottomans. The sack of Constantinople is often thought as the end of the Medieval Age and the start of another. Politics of the past forgotten. So what if in an alternate timeline this never happened? What if the Byzantine Empire actually survived, and continued on? Here is one scenario.
Russia was the first European state to colonize what we now call Alaska, but then they sold it to focus on other matters. Little did they know what the future would bring. So what if in an alternate timeline, Russia kept Alaska and invested in it more? Here is just one scenario.
I watched four alternate history shows so you dont have to. Lets go down this journey together as I needed to make that time mean something. Will we learn anything? No. Except never go into a review thinking it will be a fun easy video.
In 1992 one eccentric billionaire ran for president and ended up getting a sizable portion of the vote. Thirty years on, his run has largely been left in the 90s. But especially in today's climate, I think he was the start of something we see today. So just to do it, what if Ross Perot won in 1992? Its more relevant than you think.
The Americas are connected by a single strip of land. And outside of a canal, internationally it isnt thought much about. However this strip of land contributed to the very existence of the world we know about. And also, I want to talk about some paleontology.
On Christmas Day 1914, the Western Front briefly went silent. Men put down their guns and met their enemy in No Man's Land. They sang carols, gave gifts, and came together as young men in a similar situation. The war was supposed to be over by Christmas. And it didnt. But what if in an alternate timeline it did. And what would that even entail for such a thing to happen?
In an alternate timeline, the Western Front ended by Christmas. It was a miracle. Yet this was certainly not the end to hostilities. Just setting up a different stage the world would go down.
National Anthems. There's 179ish of these things around. Why do we have them? Which ones are overrated? What is even happening? I listened to all of them, now I'm answering your questions them.
Alright. I know you have opinions on the title saying "anyone". Anyone? How can you say anyone? Well officially nobody actually did. Historians just call the war a draw. Yet it can be debated who got the better deal between Britain, the US and Canada. (It was Canada). So what if the war went better for both sides? What if Britain won? What if the US? How could this uneventful war have changed everything?
I watched every single Ancient Aliens episode to uncover the deep lore of ancient astronaut theory. It wasnt worth it.
The Seven Years War was the original World War. And its ramifications, were many. Yet it can't be simply summed up in one video. So this is the start of a new series. One where France wins the Seven Years War, and in this case, French and Indian. How does this change colonization? A lot. What else did you think.
Sometimes we think we have all the answers. And we are proud to say our solutions to life's greatest mysteries. Sometimes we're flat out wrong. This is the tale of how in the 19th century, a few educated people believed a continent sunk in the Indian Ocean. The only evidence? Lemur fossils. And it just went downhill from there. This is the tale of Lemuria.
The 9th President of the US died really quick. But what if he didnt. Here's a short scenario for a short presidency.
Capitals are important. It's where the government gets things done. Yet sometimes the debate over where the capital should be, takes on a political nature in itself.
California historically was never a uniform state. There were periods of time that it almost split in two multiple times, for different reasons. So let's talk about the time in the 1850s when there was a vote to make SoCal a new state, only to be interrupted.
The Seven Years War determined the fate of Europe. Not just because of the rivalry between France and Britain. No, it would change revolutions, ideas and the very philosophies we take for granted in the modern day. France won the war, but it still has to fight the battle against modernity.
After the war, Germany was split in two. Yet Japan and Italy were spared the same fate. What if in an alternate timeline things had gone differently. Say Italy had an election which risked it's own autonomy? Where it splitting would be decided for the sake of Cold War rivalries? A timeline where Italy was divided like Germany after WWII.
There wasn't always a plan to divide Germany East and West. A decision that defined the 20th century and the Cold War. There was another plan. The Morgenthau Plan.
Alexander the Great built an empire that spanned the known world in the span of a decade. And then he died. It has remained through history as a "what if". Was Alexander near the end of his reign? Or was he just getting started? How could him surviving just a bit longer have transformed the ancient world?
Talk about timing. After the Civil War there were a series of plans to divide up the largest Southern state. To turn it into three or four smaller states. None of these plans ever had a realistic chance of happening, except for one. This is a scenario where Texas was divided after the Civil War.
Harry Turtledove imagined a world where World War II began a year early. He decided the story warranted six parts. It most certainly did not. Tigerstar and I explore a series that only deteriorates with each sequel. Follow us throughout this anguished journey.
Al Gore. The man. The guy. He lost the election in 2000 and ever since a lot of people have wondered how things could have turned out if that didnt happen. So that's what I'm gonna talk about. An alternate world where Al Gore won and proceeded to deal with one of the most turbulent times in US history. Good luck Gore.
Hawaii was once an independent kingdom before becoming one of the 50 states. Its annexation was a crossroads in Hawaiian history, but what if in an alternate timeline it had not been? What if the kingdom had remained? Or at least Hawaii was never annexed?
Throughout the Medieval Era, Christian kingdoms warred against Muslim states after the Islamic conquests. In the era called the Reconquista, new states formed, new dynasties rose, and this fight over a peninsula fundamentally changed the world forever. The only way to truly know how impactful it was, is to take it away. What if the Reconquista had failed? No Spain. No Portugal. Its a long journey ahead.
There was once a time in 2011 when SpikeTV attempted to theorize about an alternate WWII, where Germany won. It went as well as you would expect. The pilot only aired once, and the series was cancelled. Only I and a few others remember witnessing it. This is the tale.
Of all the great empires, how the Ottomans never colonized America. What if they were given a chance? Would they take it? How exactly could things have changed if the Muslim powers had reached the Americas first? Here is one scenario.
Northern Canada is pretty interesting and while researching another video I kinda started obsessing over the region. So to get all of that off my chest, I made this video. This is a part of the world nobody really talks about, so let's do that. In a very disorganized fashion.
Britain. The island that ruled the waves. Yet what if it had no waves to rule? There was once a time that Britain, and the North Sea didn't exist. Instead it was a single landmass called Doggerland. How would history have changed if Doggerland remained?
Putin seems to have some idea that NATO betrayed a poor Russia and has now left him no choice but to invade a far smaller nation. Is he justified? Of course not. But where did this idea in the Russian mindset come from? Let's talk about a story of how after the Soviets fell, Russia felt weak, and didn't want to feel weak, even though they were weak.
Hypotheticals are fun. Sometimes they're also bonkers. Imagine a world where Russia was accepted into NATO. What would it actually look like? Would we all have came together in peace? Well, things would have been a bit, zanier than you might expect.
Alternate history is the imagining of our world going down a path it didn't in our own timeline. Changes from big and small can have dramatic effects. And also can be fun ways to write stories. I wanted to talk about the alternate timelines that have been imagined by authors and forum users over books, shows and online threads. And what better way than through an iceberg video.
Alternate history. Crafting worlds that went down a different path than our own. Most of the time this is usually an excuse to have wacky maps and crazy events. It's fun to bend history. This is Part 2 to the alternate timelines iceberg that was put together by Emperor Fanta. Detailing the worlds imagined throughout fiction.
As long as history has existed, people have been wondering the 'what if', and how it could have been different. Alternate history. You know what it is.
The Pacific is big. So big you could just fit another land-mass in it. Some people once believed there was a landmass in it that sank beneath the waves. There wasn't, but it'd be fun to imagine if there was. What if the lost continent of Mu was actually real and was simply another landmass. Let's theorize.
Rome went to the edge of the known world, an island in the North Sea and took a large portion of it. We call that island Britain today. Yet what if in an alternate timeline, Rome never colonized or conquered this land? How does this change British history?
Before Japan isolated itself for two centuries it had a growing relationship with the West. Goods from China and Europe came in and as a side-effect Christianity began growing among the peasantry. What if in an alternate timeline, this stuck? What if Japan had adopted Christianity?
Flags can be symbols for anything. Nationality, ideology, anything you can imagine. Well what do you know, flags exist for cities too. In the US, they're pretty terrible. But I wanted to talk about the flags across the world to really show what works and what doesn't.
The US has wanted Greenland for a while. They never got it, but they sure did want it. So what if in an alternate timeline, they bought it from the Danish? And then when that doesnt work, what if they just took it instead. Let's talk about that.
Flags are pretty neat. I think they're neat. You probably do too. Let's go on a journey just talking about random topics involving flags. There really is no structure to any of this, just a bunch of unrelated topics that I think are interesting.
Nixon was a funny man with a funny plan. He has a pretty infamous legacy, or not, depending on your point of view. Yet he was a major figure of the 70s. And I was asked this question enough so I'm doing it. What if Nixon was never president? What if somebody else took charge?
Herbert Hoover is considered one of the worst presidents in US history. And he was a bad president. But things could have been far different if he simply decided to run for office eight years earlier. Despite his bad reputation now, Hoover was once popular for his charity and philanthropy. What if he had ran in 1920 instead of 1928?
When Columbus sailed the ocean blue he figured he was headed for Asia. He didn't. But what if he did? What if the world actually looked like Columbus thought it did? All the strange misconceptions Europe had included.
Vladimir the Great had a choice to make, and he chose Orthodox Christianity. But what if he chose Islam instead? How could this have changed Russia's history? Would there be a Russia. Here's one scenario.
For some reason Vladimir the Great picked Islam in an alternate timeline. The ramifications for this were tremendous. Probably destroyed the idea of Russia at all. Would Russia turn to Central Asia? Would Novgorod be its own independent state?
The Haitian Revolution was the most successful slave revolt in history. While the history passed that has been, rough. It still affected a lot of minds in the 19th century. So what if the Haitian Revolution failed?
The Challenger Disaster is one of the most tragic events in American space travel. It also almost ended up involving Big Bird from Sesame Street. What if Big Bird had been on that rocket? Why did it take me so long to make this video. Let's find out.
The Swedish Empire was once a leading power in Europe. Its fall led to Russia's rise. What if in an alternate timeline Sweden never lost that prestige? What if it won the Great Northern War?
In 1903, there was a man named Horatio. He really liked cars. He wagered a bet that he could cross the US in under 90 Days. Not a big deal today. But this was before highways, and paved roads. This was going to be a journey.
Yeah this is quite the idea. What if nobody crossed into Beringia thousands of years ago? What if Europeans came across the New World and it was just, empty? So much changes, but I tried to sum it up quickly.
Time for EmperorTigerstar and I to talk about Turtledove. An annual tradition. We decided this time to use a more laid back format.
Is it the worst? Maybe not. But its the worst I read so far. What if the eastern part of the US was in the middle of the ocean? That'd be something. Thats the plot of the 'Atlantis' series.
William Randolph Hearst was a strange man. A rich man. But a strange one. And he'd soon build an empire off of nothing but his own two hands and his father's money. His life was weird and his story was even weirder.
There once was a rich man who was so weird they made a movie about him. That movie was Citizen Kane. I am not kidding. This is the story of William Hearst. A early media mogul and absolute weirdo.
Everyone has their favorite period in history. Mine happens to be a period not too long ago. But everyone dressed really weird so I think we all collectively agreed to forget. The early modern period. A time when Poland was a superpower. The Ottomans ruled half the Mediterranean. And the Holy Roman Empire was, existing...barely.
Quebec. A French state in an English world. Quebec has often wished to go its own way, and it almost did in 1995. But then they didnt. So what if they had voted to leave? Probably would have caused a lot of headaches.
On Christmas Eve 1800, Napoleon took a ride through Paris. And then something exploded. This is the tale of how Napoleon narrowly escaped a grim fate before he even led his armies across Europe.
The Mongol Empire transformed the world. It was all started by one man. So what if that man had lost early on? What would the world look like? This is one scenario.
Did you know that US states have anthems? I didn't until like a month ago. And now its taken over my life. Just like national anthems I went down a rabbit hole. To make up for that wasted time, lets talk about them all, and rank them too.
The Chernobyl disaster was a mess, but what if we dial that up to 11? Yes what if we took this already bad event and made it even worse. That is the video.
Lenin's arrival to Russia transformed the political history of the nation, and the world at large. But what if he...didn't. Say that train he was on, didn't make it to its destination. Turns out that might change the history of Russia in a far different way.
The Hindenburg is synonymous in history with catastrophic failure. It permanently tainted the reputation of the airship. So what if the disaster didn't happen? Or I guess the more important question. What if airships were actually more popular (earlier than in our timeline)
In an alternate world Chernobyl turned out much worse for the Soviets. The result was a total collapse of the state. Not a peaceful dissolution like in our history. This time it would be a violent civil war.
We have detailed plans from both the French and the English in the case of an invasion over the English channel, making it the perfect scenario to dive into. How far would Napoleon go? Do the British stand a chance if he makes it on land? Find out as we go over every detail in this 1806 alternate campaign.
For every scenario with an interesting and plausible twist there are a dozen more that are on the wacky side. Here are 10 of the most popular and often suggested scenarios, that just don't make any sense once you look into them.
Alexander Hamilton. Founding Father. Avid Duelist. Only lost once. What if he had been "president". Or at least took the country in the direction he really wanted.
I decided to take on the role of Doctor Strange and look into millions of alternate realities. I'm happy to report back that out of 14 million timeline, this is the most likely one where Germany wins WW2
The "War to end all wars" was considered a European affair by Americans. Until it finally wasn't. To the US, joining the war was their chance to finally prove themselves as a power. To Europe, it was one last stone that tipped the scales. What if America never entered?
