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Northern Canada is pretty interesting and while researching another video I kinda started obsessing over the region. So to get all of that off my chest, I made this video. This is a part of the world nobody really talks about, so let's do that. In a very disorganized fashion.
Britain. The island that ruled the waves. Yet what if it had no waves to rule? There was once a time that Britain, and the North Sea didn't exist. Instead it was a single landmass called Doggerland. How would history have changed if Doggerland remained?
Putin seems to have some idea that NATO betrayed a poor Russia and has now left him no choice but to invade a far smaller nation. Is he justified? Of course not. But where did this idea in the Russian mindset come from?
Let's talk about a story of how after the Soviets fell, Russia felt weak, and didn't want to feel weak, even though they were weak.
Hypotheticals are fun. Sometimes they're also bonkers. Imagine a world where Russia was accepted into NATO. What would it actually look like? Would we all have came together in peace? Well, things would have been a bit, zanier than you might expect.
Alternate history is the imagining of our world going down a path it didn't in our own timeline. Changes from big and small can have dramatic effects. And also can be fun ways to write stories.
I wanted to talk about the alternate timelines that have been imagined by authors and forum users over books, shows and online threads. And what better way than through an iceberg video.
Alternate history. Crafting worlds that went down a different path than our own. Most of the time this is usually an excuse to have wacky maps and crazy events. It's fun to bend history.
This is Part 2 to the alternate timelines iceberg that was put together by Emperor Fanta. Detailing the worlds imagined throughout fiction.
As long as history has existed, people have been wondering the 'what if', and how it could have been different. Alternate history. You know what it is.
The Pacific is big. So big you could just fit another land-mass in it. Some people once believed there was a landmass in it that sank beneath the waves. There wasn't, but it'd be fun to imagine if there was. What if the lost continent of Mu was actually real and was simply another landmass. Let's theorize.
Rome went to the edge of the known world, an island in the North Sea and took a large portion of it. We call that island Britain today. Yet what if in an alternate timeline, Rome never colonized or conquered this land? How does this change British history?
Before Japan isolated itself for two centuries it had a growing relationship with the West. Goods from China and Europe came in and as a side-effect Christianity began growing among the peasantry. What if in an alternate timeline, this stuck? What if Japan had adopted Christianity?
Flags can be symbols for anything. Nationality, ideology, anything you can imagine. Well what do you know, flags exist for cities too. In the US, they're pretty terrible. But I wanted to talk about the flags across the world to really show what works and what doesn't.
The US has wanted Greenland for a while. They never got it, but they sure did want it. So what if in an alternate timeline, they bought it from the Danish? And then when that doesnt work, what if they just took it instead. Let's talk about that.
Flags are pretty neat. I think they're neat. You probably do too. Let's go on a journey just talking about random topics involving flags. There really is no structure to any of this, just a bunch of unrelated topics that I think are interesting.
Nixon was a funny man with a funny plan. He has a pretty infamous legacy, or not, depending on your point of view. Yet he was a major figure of the 70s. And I was asked this question enough so I'm doing it. What if Nixon was never president? What if somebody else took charge?
Herbert Hoover is considered one of the worst presidents in US history. And he was a bad president. But things could have been far different if he simply decided to run for office eight years earlier. Despite his bad reputation now, Hoover was once popular for his charity and philanthropy. What if he had ran in 1920 instead of 1928?
