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=== Tropes: ===▼
* [[Allohistorical Allusion]]
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: The only thing changing is who (or what) is wanked high.
* [[In Spite of a Nail]]
* [[Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman]]: Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) as VP of the rest-US in a world where the CSA successfully seceded. David Duke as POTUS in a world where The Nazis win World War II and the US become their fascist satellite. Jabir ibn Hayyan as a Roman chemist inventing mustard gas in 767. Swedish king Charles XII invading Britain. Roman emperor Heraclius founding a new empire in Africa after Constantinople falls. And Adolf Hitler ending up in an insane asylum painting more watercolors.
** The sequel had some more of these. [[Ayn Rand|Alissa Rosenbaum]] writing novels about heroic rail builders in Nationalist Republican Russia. Japanese admiral Hiyoshimaru fighting European pirates for the Ming emperors. St. Bernhard of Clairvaux and St. Dominic de Guzman converting still-pagan Scandinavia to a somewhat different Christianity. Ibn Sina inventing calculus in 1006. Jan Masaryk elected Archon of an Austrian empire turned republic. And finally, Otakar Przemysl kicking out the Mongolian oppressors from the Holy Roman Empire in Centrum.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Gurps Infinite Worlds.
Starts to diverge when filibusters take over Nicaragua and help the CSA become independent. Later, they will take over most of Mexico and Central America. The US are allied with Germany and help them win [[World War One]].▼
▲Starts to diverge when filibusters take over Nicaragua and help the CSA become independent. Later, they will take over most of Mexico and Central America. The US are allied with Germany and help them win [[World War
* [[Action Girl]]: In the US, women serve in all branches of the military.
** [[Dark Action Girl]]: They also commit as many violent crimes as men do.
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* [[Gauls With Grenades]]: Charles de Gaulle invents "guerre-eclair" (blitzkrieg)
* [[Imperial Germany]]
* [[John F. Kennedy]]: With [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X Malcolm Little] as his VP.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The picture shows a CSA officer named [[Gone with the Wind|"Butler"]] looking much like [[Clark Gable]].
* [[Southern Belle]]
* [[Space
* [[Straw Feminist]]: To Southrons, every Yankee woman is a man-hating harridan.
* [[Zeppelins from Another World]]
Diverges with the assassination of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]. During the terms of Charles Lindbergh and the not-that-competent Nance Garner and Wallace, the US become politically split and polarized. Meanwhile, the nazis conquer half the world.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Guess for whom.
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* [[Nuke'Em]]: The nazis didn't hesitate to level Denver, Dallas, St. Louis and Omaha in 1950 and Pittsburgh, Atlanta, San Antonio, Salt Lake City and Calgary in 1976 when the Americans started an uprising.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The picture of the nazis deporting the Jews of Houston (happening in the 1980s) is based on the famous picture of the Warsaw Ghetto 1943. Except that they are wearing time-appropriate clothes - the little boy on the right has a baseball cap.
* [[Space
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]
Instead of the sinister Tiberius, a surviving Drusus takes over Rome after Augustus' death. During the following two millennia, Rome will expand, fall apart twice and reunite again and expand further. Their technology also develops, albeit not as fast as in our world.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Rome, Rome and Rome again.
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* [[Jesus]]: May have been pardoned by the emperor, if he lived at all.
* [[The Roman Empire]]
* [[Space
* [[Steampunk]]: They have boxy, heavyweight steamcars.
John Trastamara survives, hence no united Habsburg empire. The way history develops is... odd: Charles II and Louis XVI prevent revolutions which otherwise would have lead to more democracy and the creation of republics, and at the end, the whole democratic phase is somehow skipped, since the world transforms into a typical cyberpunkish society where nothing else counts but how rich you are.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Japan, oh so much. Also, Sweden, France and Brazil which are the other three superpowers.
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* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: More successful than ever. They manage to reign over two thirds of the world population!
* [[Nuke'Em]]: Synarchist Sweden nukes four British cities when their pawns don't win the Civil War. As a result, 60% of Britain's population dies or emigrates.
* [[Space
The Carthaginians discover America, so the Old World diseases hit America two millennia earlier. The Roman Empire falls apart after Nero's been killed, and the various barbarians make sure Europe never recovers. Then the Aztecs start the Industrial Revolution.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Mongols, Aztecs and Iroquois.
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* [[In Spite of a Nail]]: Most [[Egregious]] example. The Aztec people still exists although history diverged more than two thousand years before them.
* [[Made a Slave]]: Many Europeans who're sold to the Mongols and Aztecs then.
* [[Space
* [[Steampunk]]
[[Nikola Tesla]] marries the daughter of J.P. Morgan, gains financial support to take out Edison, and can realize all his cool inventions.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Science!
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* {{spoiler|[[Minovsky Physics]]: It is hinted that the laws of physics might differ a bit in this timeline.}}
* [[Nikola Tesla]]
* [[Punk Punk]]: [[
* [[Technology Porn]]
* [[Zeppelins from Another World]]
== Worlds described in ''GURPS Alternate Earths 2'' ==
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Turgot manages to reform France, which prevents [[The French Revolution]] - and [[The American Revolution]] as well, since he won't support republicans against one fellow king. Only two centuries later, one great power (Russia) becomes the republican Dominate.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: For the great European monarchies.
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* [[Balkanize Me]]: Germany except for Prussia and Austria
* [[Cool Train]]: The trains of Russia which impress less with speed and more with size.
* [[Space
Ming China never scraps its fleet and starts to expand - first into Vietnam, later into Europe when their pirates attack... and there's no end, it seems...
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: This time, it's China.
* [[Just Before the End]]: The Emperor appears to have lost the Mandate of Heaven.
* [[Space
* [[Zeppelins from Another World]]
The Vikings manage to take Constantinople and capture the secret of Greek Fire. They manage to extend their rule over half of Europe, North America, Russia and Siberia.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: For Vikings.
* [[Pirate]]: Everyone's doing it. Except for the Scandinavians (no surprise), the [[Long List|Gujerati, Yanomami, Japanese and many other people]] are also into it.
An eccentric Muslim scholar refutes the pagan Greek philosophers using rationalism. In combination with an Arab printing press, the Muslims take over the world and also develop science and technology way faster.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Islam.
* [[Awakening the Sleeping Giant]]/[[Sealed Badass in a Can]]: The whole timeline is presented as this with regards to the Infinite Worlds setting. Both Homeline and Centrum are, quite rightly, scared shitless of the prospect that Caliph might learn the Secret.
* [[Space
* [[Technology Porn]]: Despite being in the 17th (Christian) century, they already have colonies in space, [[Nanotechnology]] and skyscrapers made of artificial diamonds.
"The Divine wind" never happens, so Britain stays under the Stuarts and gradually becomes Catholic again.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Averted; the setting gets too weird to say that any power is wanked up. For some times, the Bourbons.
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** [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]: ...but the rebels know that they can't afford to [[Divided We Fall|hang separately]], and currently the liberals are keeping everyone together and mostly civilized.
A more successful Angevin (Anglo-French) empire gradually takes over all the world. When the empire falls apart, a meritocracy centered on Terraustralis (Australia) rebuilds the empire. And then, they start discovering and conquering other timelines...
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: Centrum. That is all.
* [[Colony Drop]]: A rogue asteroid collided with Earth around the turn of the XXth century; this is what collapsed the previous empire.
* [[The Rival]]: Centrum for Homeline
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