Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'british empire'

Browse all alternate history scenarios about 'british empire'.

What If The Oregon Territory Became British?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the Oregon Territory boundary dispute ended with Britain securing the entire region, reshaping North America's political landscape and creating a significantly larger British presence on the Pacific coast.

What If The Partition of India Never Occurred?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan never happened, potentially creating a unified South Asian superpower and avoiding one of history's largest mass migrations and humanitarian crises.

What If The Suez Canal Was Never Built?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the Suez Canal was never constructed, radically altering global trade routes, colonial empires, and the geopolitical development of the Middle East and beyond.

What If Western Australia Seceded from Australia?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Western Australia's 1933 secession referendum led to independence, reshaping the geopolitical landscape of the Asia-Pacific region and creating a new sovereign nation.

What If Māori Resistance Successfully Repelled European Colonization?

Exploring how New Zealand's history would have unfolded if Māori military and political resistance had successfully prevented British colonization, creating an independent Māori nation that maintained sovereignty into the modern era.

What If Captain Cook Never Reached New Zealand?

Exploring how New Zealand's history would have unfolded if James Cook had not charted its coastline in 1769-1770, potentially delaying European colonization and creating a fundamentally different trajectory for Māori society and the development of the nation.