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Alternate History Hub @AlternateHistoryHub discusses 10 alternate history scenarios that they believe are dumb? Are they actually dumb though? Mr. Terry shares his thoughts. What do YOU think?

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[MrTerry]

Which scenarios are dumb, and which ones are good?

[Atlantyk.]

The worst Alternative history scenario is if Mr. Terry didn't start a YouTube Chanel

[halbarad]

I think you really underestimate how anti slavery Britain was in the 1860s. It was a massive thing for them.

[yoannbelleville]

The British absolutely did care about slavery. Sure, nations only look after their own interests and all that, but troughout history, almost every governement needed some sort of moral justification in order to start or join a war. Even Hitler and the Japanese made false flag operations to justifie their conquests, which they manadged to get away with in no small part because of the rising international tensions and because Poland/China were close to their borders.
The British couldn't even have convince their people that the civil war wasn't about slavery. Plenty of journalists were already sharing the causes and the developement of the war at that point. Even if we were to say that the members of the British governement didn't care about slavery (they did. Despite what one may think, politicians are people too), joinning the war on the side of the confederacy would have been incredibly unpopular. It would no doubt have caused huge riots in the streets, pressuring the governement to end the war more and more. Not to mention the backlash from the parents and wives of the soldiers sent to fight on the other side of the atlantic for a cause they considered to be very unjust. Slavery had been abolished for over three decades and was seen in most of Europe as one of the worst moral evil.

[Nostripe]

Another problem with another place like ancient Rome industrializing was that those in power would probably not be excited about what technology would give the lower classes. Such as power or free time that they could use to start discussing why those in power are in power.

[SeruraRenge]

25:12 But...Britain literally went out of its way spending untold amounts of money trying to end slavery everywhere its empire had contact with, purely for moralistic reasons.

[supersasukemaniac]

Another reason why Alexander wouldn't have considered invading Rome is as simple as the age he lived in, Rome was still effectively nothing and Carthage was the massive superpower; and as a result the big prize Alexander ultimately had his sights on. It would be over 100 years later that Rome would beat Carthage in the first Punic War and be seen as even stronger then Carthage

[idcgaming]

12:50 the Normans may have been viking descendents, but they had become French by the time of 1066.

[GleamingRake]

Even though the Normans were indeed Norse Vikings originally, at the time of the conquest of England they had lived in France for almost 2 centuries, and at this point they really had adopted the Romance cultural substratum of the Franks who'd been part of the Roman empire for centuries.
They had adopted Franks customs, laws, language and religion. To be fair Scandinavia also had become pretty much christian at this point, but was much closer to its Norse cultural and linguistic heritage.

[GrantCelley]

I am working on an alternate timeline of industrializing of Rome. One issue is that I think Rome did not see anything important to industrialize. In my timeline they put the Helios engine on the Agricola's ships when sailing to Greece. One of the first time europeans sailed the Mediterranean without seeing land. This made the engine be looked at to do more work.

[jeffslote]

The Aztecs would have been stopped in thier tracks by the first fortress they encountered. Lacking cannon, siege tactics and a supply chain would have prevented any conquest. Less than ten countries nowadays can conduct war across the globe now let alone a Bronze Age culture from central Mexico

[aubreyhuff]

8:44 he was stating that the romans met only these four of the 15 pre-requisites.

[AnimeFreakK]

Couple of comments:

WWII Germany was nowhere near completing a nuke. At all. They had some of the concepts and ideas, but their methods of collecting enough material to make a viable weapon was horribly slow and inefficient. I mean, the reason why Operation Gunnerside was so effective was due to those inefficiencies and set their efforts back several years. Even if those events didn't happen (or they failed), Germany would never beat the US to the bomb.

The advent of the Ironclads literally changed the face of naval warfare overnight. While neither the Union nor Confederates were the first to have ironclads, but they were the first to pit them against each other and their actions leading up to and after their battle pretty much proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that throwing a wooden navy against one was a good way to lose that navy (or at the very least, see it crippled)...and there would be no way Britian would be willing to sacrifice its navy for the CSA.

[manahakume]

i remember a meme where someone was like 'i was looking at my contact list in my phone and i have like 'Mike electrician' and now i under stand how last names came to be' XD

[sergioandrade]

Another reason why Smith is a common family name is because of status. Smiths or metal workers were considered the most respected of the craft workers and if one claimed to be a smith that meant you had a valuable skill.

[Skel]

Ironclads would have made a huge difference considering the u.s would have also been on the defense during the war. The first battle between ironclads at the battle of Hampton road had two ironclads duel for three hours with minimal damage inflicted on both ships in that time. It was one of the few points in history where armor advanced faster then weapons

[MalikF]

I love how you brought up how Normans were vickings decent people. It’s in the name

[Ulfhednar]

I'm sorry, but the fact that US didn't really care about slavery, doesn't mean that Britain didn't. It's easy to cast Americano-centric point of view on others, but it doesn't have much to do with reality

[evanb]

Hey Mr. Terry, love your stuff!
Just in case you weren't aware, the Sunset Invasion scenario is from an expansion for Crusader Kings 2. Basically, there was an issue with the game at the time that mid- and late-game western Europe was too stable and boring to play, while eastern Europe and the middle east had to deal with the Mongols, so Paradox made Sunset Invasion as a kind of fun way to give something similar to the west half of the map. It was never really meant to be serious alt history, but it's still kind of a fun thing to think about :)

[MWSin]

I've always thought the most interesting scenario for 1066 is that that Harald dies at Stamford Bridge (as he historically did) and then both Harold and William die at Hastings (Harold really did die, and at one point false rumors of William's death ran through the Bastard's army).

Suddenly, you've got teenagers on the thrones of England, Normandy, and Norway. The entire North Sea seems to be up for grabs - and Sweyn of Denmark is the most likely to try to grab it.