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geopede t1_jatuzsg wrote

Reply to comment by FireKingDono in My wife and I ended up in a world where the South won the civil war. We saw what the world became without the United States. It shocked us. PART 2 by Odd_directions

Germany might not exist if the divergence is in the 1860s, it wasn’t a country yet, and the combat in the Franco-Prussian war that led to a unified Germany was heavily influenced by observations of combat in the American civil war. If the war doesn’t happen or Prussia loses (France got wrecked in real life, largely due to a disparity in railroads and railroad blitz tactics), Germany doesn’t become a country.

Assuming it does form, Germany is probably the most interesting country, but not for anything having to do with nazism. If WW1 still happens but there’s no US, the Germans win, the Kaiser stays in power, communism never gets a foothold, and Germany becomes the dominant continental power around 1920.

As far as the others you mentioned:

Japan is powerful, so it’s probably safe to assume China is not powerful. Generally only one of those nations is a world power at a given time.

Spain most likely follows a similar trajectory to our timeline, but loses the Philippines to Japan instead of the United States. It remains a second rate European power, as it did in our timeline.

Middle East looks very different if WW1 doesn’t happen (because no Germany) or goes the other way. The Ottoman Empire probably manages to stick around for another few decades (it was crumbling, but the uprising couldn’t have happened without the war), meaning there’s a Muslim great power in the Middle East. This most likely means Israel never becomes a country, the Arabian peninsula stays a backwater, and the Middle East ends up a bipolar region, with the Ottomans as one power and an Anglo-backed Persia as the other.

The other European countries are impossible to predict without knowing whether Germany forms. If it does, Italy never develops fascism because Germany wins WW1 and communism never gets a foothold outside of Russia.

Most of the alternate world is dependent on whether Germany forms or not.

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geopede t1_jats8lc wrote

Reply to comment by BeMoreMuddy in My wife and I ended up in a world where the South won the civil war. We saw what the world became without the United States. It shocked us. PART 2 by Odd_directions

And also about all the viruses and bacteria likely brought back from a different world, 160 years on a divergent timeline is long enough for some nasty stuff to develop that we don’t have. It also sounds like the technology in that timeline is less advanced, so they likely still have smallpox and the like.

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doradiamond t1_jateisk wrote

Reply to Fated. by SignedSyledDelivered

Was it really a curse though? Your grandfather could have taken this as an opportunity to live life with no worries or regrets - choosing to leave when he was finally ready.

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DungeondwellerJack t1_jasre7u wrote

Reply to Fated. by SignedSyledDelivered

Be ware Stuffy. In Hell, they don't make tortures as effective as knowing how you will die and not when. If you contact her, be prepared to live in paranoia forever and most likely than not, it will be the precautions you take the ones that seal your fate.

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KYpineapple t1_jase67a wrote

Reply to The One-Shot Man by Kieran_ONeil

ok so, >!the guys father and the acne scarred man robbed his own house and then later the father fought a bear and "died" but now the one-shot man is the guy's father who set this up to talk to his son and kill the guy that killed his wife in a botched self-home invasion??!<

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