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by mootothemax 3669 days ago
What would the world look like if the Nazis had won World War II? Or if Russia had nuked the world in the 1980s? Or Henry VIII had had a surviving male heir early in his reign? Or if Yeltsin hadn't have been an easily manipulated alcoholic?

I could go on - at length. And this only scratches the surface of alternative world history, which is just one of a crazy number of reasons to simulate something that involves a previous history's peoples.

Hah, I wonder what geologists would get up to?