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Alternative /his/tory thread 2016-10-27 13:55:15 Post No. 1883859
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Hello /his/
What do you think are the major turning points in history of humanity?
How would the world look, if those events didn't happen?
I'll start:
Killing of Franz Ferdinand.
Probably the biggest turning point on the history of the world, that sparked WW1. If this man would not take a turn in Serbia, he'd be alive, and WW1 would not start.
Without WW1, there would be:
>no famine in Europe,
>no big losses in human life,
>no Armenian genocide.
>Ottoman Empire wouldn't crumble
>Balance in the middle east wouldn't be shifted, so Shia, Sunni and Kurds probably wouldn't start killing each other, and they wouldn't turn into terrorists.
>USA never becomes a super power - without selling arms to European countries, they don't get wealth to become a superpower
>Hitler, and Mussolini don't see WW1, their countries don't face post WW1 bad economy, so there's no Fascism and Nazism
>Russia doesn't suffer from the Revolution, so there's no Communism
>WW2 doesn't happen
>Israel isn't created and doesn't get support from other countries
>lack of the WW1, WW2 and Cold War means no arms and tech-race. We'd be probably set back in tech by about 60 years.
What do you think of that reasoning, /his/?
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>>1883859
>What do you think are the major turning points in history of humanity?
all of them
>How would the world look, if those events didn't happen?
differently
please delete your thread
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>>1883870
kek
He's right OP, take your kiddy shit elsewhere.
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>>1883859
>that sparked WW1.
Stop.
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>>1883859
Battle of the Milvian Bridge would probably be a big one. Without a Constantinian victory, the world would look completely different.
But you could go further back. Battle of Salamis, for instance.
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>>1883859
you really think an arbitrary event caused the entire world war
lots of things could have happened very differently with small chances but one guy not getting killed probably wasn't gonna cause a hundred years of world peace and hand holding.
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>>1883859
The assassination wasn't a turning point. It was the European timebomb hitting ten seconds and counting down.
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>>1883859
>WW1 would not start.
Nope.
>turn in Serbia
He was in Bosnia.
>Ottoman Empire wouldn't crumble
It was already a corpse.
>USA never becomes a super power - without selling arms to European countries, they don't get wealth to become a superpower
Just no.
>Russia doesn't suffer from the Revolution, so there's no Communism
Communism already existed as an ideology.
>no arms and tech-race
There already was an arms race.
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Alternative history is both masturbatory and redundant. Any singular event you can possibly pick throughout history is threaded into a constellation of innumerable events that occurred before it.
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A single even does not cause all those things. While his assassination did play a part in starting WWI, all of those things you listed happened because the conditions for them to happen existed. They likely would have still happened, just slightly differently. It is exceedingly rare that a single person enacts a change that wasn't going to happen in pretty much that same way without them, or whose role would simply have been filled by someone else.
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