Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'global power'

A status achieved by nations or empires with significant worldwide political, economic, military, and cultural influence. Global powers can project authority across continents, shape international systems, and influence events far beyond their borders. Throughout history, this status has shifted between dominant entities like the Roman Empire, British Empire, and superpowers of the 20th century, with alternate history scenarios often exploring how different distributions of global power might have altered world development.

What If The Industrial Revolution Began Outside Europe?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the Industrial Revolution originated in China or the Islamic world, dramatically reshaping global power dynamics, technological development, and the modern world order.

What If the Industrial Revolution Started Earlier?

Exploring how world history would have unfolded if the Industrial Revolution had begun centuries earlier, fundamentally altering the development of technology, society, and global power structures.

What If the Industrial Revolution Began Earlier?

Exploring how world history would have unfolded if mechanized production and industrial technologies had emerged in the 17th century rather than the 18th, fundamentally altering the trajectory of global development.