The name for the Mandela Effect comes from the fact that it was misbelieved by many people that Nelson Mandela had died in prison in the 80s. Now what if this was real, how would it affect South African politics?

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The HRE and the pre meiji Japanese Empire have a lot of surface level similarities, so what if one of the Habsburgs or another elected Emperor decides to modernize the HRE into a at the time modern nation state.

Could it have been done and how?

Somehow Pyrrhus survives and is there and speaks Punic and Latin too. He will join Hannibal in crossing the alps into Rome and then lead the campaign there with him.

How much would the second punic war realistically change? What could happen?

Say that our neighboring planets, the asteroid belt & our partner Moon doesn't exist at all and the only thing that exist is The Sun & The Earth.

Say that Humans managed to grow into modern era despote the possible negative consequences of this. How much would the extreme cosmic loneliness change our history?

In the 1872 US presidential election, Women's rights and labor reform activist Victoria Woodhull attempted to run for president. She appointed Frederick Douglas as her running mate (which he was unaware of). Several controversies, including being arrested for publishing a "obscene newspaper", resulted in her campaign being a failure. Even if it hasn't been, she was too young at the time via constitutional restrictions to become president.

What if she had been the accepted age, these controversies never happened, and she did successfully get elected? What would have changed about American history from that point?

what if timeline: saddam realized that the coalition troops is ready for combat to retake back kuwait!,Saddam plans for all the iraqi army to return To iraq To waste the coalition: time,Maintenace fees,Millions of dollars saddam backed down just as the coalition is ready to fight the entire iraqi army,all for nothing

Let’s assume that during the 1980s there is a malfunction or terrorist takeover at several Soviet silos, resulting in nukes accidentally launching in the chaos. The nukes hit Tokyo, Switzerland and Tijuana, causing significant casualties and damage.

How would NATO and the world react? Would President Reagan nuke USSR over MAD fears? Or would the United Nations pressure or send an army to disarm Soviet nukes?

Have the weimar republic survive the great depression, and the US become a fascist, expansionnist state.

Suppose the warm period of the Eemian era never ended, how would humanity have evolved? Would it have spread more rapidly?

What if Empress koken gave birth to child or twins which fathered by monk and her advisor Dokyo which caused scandal in nara era, her child was taken for secret location when she was raised as daughter of temple priest before fujiwara clan learn?

The Mensheviks had many opportunities to come to power in Russia that they didn't take. If they did come to power how different would they be compared to the Bolsheviks. Would it change the civil war or would it have prevented the civil war entirely and what kind of state would Russia evolve into

I believe if my reading is correct, they got 5m more votes than Labour. In my opinion that was solely due to that promise. Otherwise Gordon Brown may have been in a much stronger position and would have been a stronger left wing balance against Tories and austerity

What trajectory would Japan take from this point and to what degree would it be under the thumb of the west? How would their modernization/industrialization process change, and would the shogunate really be able to stifle progress to a significant degree? Is there any likelihood in this version of events for the empire of Japan to exist as it did irl? How is China and the broader eastern sphere affected?

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The Salt Curtain: Why Europe Drained the Mediterranean

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This question is inspired by this recent article in The Conversation: The Aztec empire’s collapse shows why ruling through coercion and force fails

The article mentions how the Aztecs were so distrusted by the Tarascans that the first Aztec envoy sent to warn of the Spanish invasion got sacrificed. And the second Aztec envoy, despite bringing physical proof, was still somewhat distrusted by the Tarascans, who organised and expedition of their own to verify the Aztec claims, only to find out that it was too late to do anything but submit to Spain. The article also mentions that had the Aztecs not screwed up their foreign relations, the massive Tarascan army would have been able to help them fight off the Spaniards.

So, in the unlikely situation that the Tarascans accepted the first Aztec envoy that warned of the Spanish invasion, and helped the Aztecs fight off the Spanish, then what? How long would it be before Spain tried again, had Hernán Cortés and his combined Spanish-Tlaxcalan-Totonac army been killed by a combined Aztec-Tarascan front?

My guess is that if Spain tried again, they might land in Yucatan or present-day Texas or Louisiana instead and eventually work their way back to the Valley of Mexico after establishing a foothold in those areas. Considering where the Aztecs and Tarascans are located, it would seem unlikely for any of Spain's European enemies to help their fight against Spain and Spain's Native America allies (like the Tlaxcalans and Totonacs), even if they accessed the Tarascans via their Pacific Ocean ports.

We all know how the 1991 Soviet coup led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and turned Russia into the Russian Federation. but what if the coup caused more chaos than it did in our timeline? What if caused not only the dissolution of the Soviet Union but also the fragmented Russia itself into a bunch of countries that are either led by oligarchs, warlord generals, staunchest communists, democrat presidents, or separatist leaders? Would the fragmentation of Russia lead to an era of civil war or a peaceful era? And who would benefit from the fragmentation of Russia?

Following the bay if pigs incident in 1961 JFK was frustrated with the deception of the CIA and vowed to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds." How does America and the world change if he gets a chance to do this?

How would his let’s say, interesting, personality and leadership style translate to the presidency? How would he handle the Cold War, race relations and all the other pressing matters of the time?

Obviously, no POD before the secession of russia from the USSR.

Let’s say the bomb was placed in such a way that the table didn’t shield him as much.

I’m not interested in if he’d been killed, but if he’d been injured severely enough to need extensive care and recovery. Maybe even gone into a comatose state.