Alternative History:Stray Ideas

- Big bad disease evolves in new world, becomes endemic in Aztec country, and is taken back to old world.

- Norse don’t settle Greenland until after Inuit are on the scene. These Norse eat fish and learn from the natives. Old world / New World travel develops.

- Saddam Hussain uses nerve gas against US troops during Persian Gulf War in 1989/90

- Eunuchs stay in power in China and China does not become isolationist.

- Tecumseh wins more, stays alive longer.

- Lincoln short much earlier.

- Germany finances WWI using long term bonds (or other instruments) instead of short term bonds. Financially: war can last longer, and debt is much easier to deal with, hyper-inflation does not occur.