User blog comment:Truteal/Several Alternative World Ideas/@comment-1630894-20120625025349

The first has been done already on this wiki.

The second would be interesting, and would give the Europeans a harder time taking the Americas. They would in the end, but it could be more like Africa, where the native populations still make up the vast majority.

The third has, as far as I know, never been done here in any situation where there aren't additional massive changes. With the only difference being a Chinese colonization as well, the competitionn for the Americas would become very different. Interesting timeline.

The fourth would require massive changes, with Russia and Eastern Europe becoming wealthier than Western Europe. I could see if there was a timeline like your above, with a more powerful China and other East Asian nations, that they might be wealthier and not go communist. But I can't think of any way for Russia to become not very backwards without a radical shift in world politics hundreds, maybe even a thousand years prior.

The fifth could work if Napoleon was stronger and gave the British more trouble in Europe, forcing them to concentrate there. Then the US would get Canada I suppose. But unless Napoleon beat the British totally, they would be back for another war against the US once they recovered. This could lead to a world where Britain and the US, due to warring more, hated each other longer, which could lead to Britain helping the CSA or the US joining the Central Powers in WW1.