Alternative History:Alternate trends

Unlike Hinge_moments which can be tought of as the result of a single decision, alternate trends are those POD which come about thanks to many smaller variants. These are those which cannot be pinpointed to a single event or specific point in time.

Late Bronze Age

 * The Sea Peoples suffer from maritime or natural disaster around 1200BC.
 * Ramifications :
 * - Chariot use continues to be influential in the Mediterranean area in the iron age.
 * - The ordered civilization of Mycenaen Greece, Anatolia, and Levant continue well into the iron age.
 * - Egypt remains in an age of splendor.

Ming Dynasty China

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

Discovery of New World

 * 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.
 * Justification : Erik the Red was violent even by Viking standards. He easily could of died during one of his earlier murder sprees. For some inexplicable reason, OTL Norse Greenlanders had a taboo against eating fish but other Vikings did not have this taboo. They also had contempt for native Dorset and later for Inuit and NA Indians. A different Norse colony may have better relations with the natives, especially if the natives were the Inuit who had advanced technology appropriate to the environment (dogsleds, kayaks, harpoons etc).
 * Ramifications :
 * - A fish-eating and adaptable Norse colony would have greater chance of survival, could support a larger population, and would have a better chance at expanding into the New World.

Early US

 * Tecumseh wins more, stays alive longer.

World War I

 * Germany and Austria win WWI.
 * Justification : Germany lost due to bad strategies, not a lack of military power
 * Ramifications :
 * - Wilhelm II. remains emperor, the Weimar Republic is never proclaimed, no WWII as we know it.

World War II

 * Germany go ahead with operation sealion (invasion of great-britain)
 * Justification : Plans were drafted and at one point were set to go.
 * Ramifications :
 * - the various government in exiles have to relocate once more. Britain and allies move to Canada, others to the USA
 * - The US concentrate all its ressources on the pacific conflict
 * - A few governments sue for peace
 * - Sealion fails, which allows a quicker British Victory before the USA and the USSR are really involved.


 * The Germans do not invade the Soviet Union focussing in the Western front, neither declares war to the USA if Japan attacks.
 * Justification : Probably needs Hitler removed, or a better strategist he would have listened.
 * Ramifications :
 * - German looses anyway as the British Empire still has more resources than the Third Reich. Soon after the British Empire breaks away.
 * - Germany wins (Britain is fighting alone, with neither the USSR nor the USA in her side). Exausted by the war, the Third Reich is defeated by the Soviet Union before 1955.
 * - A Cold War arises between Britain and Germany. This will not favour Germany.