How would you change history?

I won't.

The American War of Independence being won by the British. It seemed the lesser of evils, at least to me.

abstain.

abstain

just to make things interesting, i have the South win the civil war. On top of that, I would have them declare and win a war in Cuba. Then eventually, the whole slavery bullcrap thing would become outlawed and obsolete in the New Southern Republic anway, but the "US" would still be divided. Castro would never be in power, and the situation with WW1 would be compeltely different depending on how the "US" would intervene.

The American War of Independence was won by Britain.

We'll learn you, ya bastards!

abstain... most of these would seem to be bad things, some I just don't know about (English Civil War? never heard of it, though Royalists sound like the bad guys). I guess I don't really get this question.

I'll abstain. History wasn't really one of my strong points so I would be making a highly UNeducated guess.

King Harold winning!

Whichever one would have the least effect on modern life, which would probably be the Falklands. Meddling with the timeline could have unexpected results!!!

But then you wouldn't exist. So then you couldn't choose....so then....aaaargh!!!

ah... but my family name indicates a viking/norse origin. So perhasp I would still exist. Then again, I'm 3/32 french and 1/32 italian. oh well..

It would have been cool if Iraq won the Gulf War - but how could that be possible with the Americans spending more than half their national budget on war?

"most of these would seem to be bad things". That's kind of the point - these are all events where the majority are happy that it ended the way it did, but there is still a significant and/or vocal minority who would disagree.

The English Civil War started, and was fought between the supporters of the king (the Royalists) and the supporters of parliament (the "Roundheads"). The Roundheads, under the command of Oliver Cromwell, won and England was, for a while, a republic.

I'll let the British win the American Revolutionary War. That would be kind of interesting. I suspect that would have resulted in a larger Canada and Mexico by today.

You funny monkee you!

although i am no expert of english history, i know about this British civil war. The Roundheads lead by Oliver Cromwell, named for their short round hair cuts, were poor people, sort of like peasants. The Royalists where rich land owners (or something like that), and they had very pretty nice long hair. Sort of like the 'hair metal' look back in the 80's. or better yet, sort of like Newton's hair looked like, only a bit longer. in the end Cromwell won. I am not sure what was the cause of the war, nor do i know the implications of the aftermath. well, at least thats the story i heard. i had never realized that it was such a major event.

hym, actually Britain had empires all over the globe. I dont see what made the US so special, other than becoming a superpower and all. eventually, Britain got their butts kicked by pretty much all their colonies, and "the US" would have eventually won out in the end. they would all become free eventually, just in differnt order. the big difference would be that then we wouldnt be such a super power, which would drasticly effect the outcome of WWI.

the big success of the Revolution had a lot to do with timing. what made this revolution so successful was that it took place before the indursial revolution, unlike someone like India who really were going up against horrible odds. if we would have hold on for just a few more moments with just a bit more patients, we would have been screwed.

yeah, maybe the British would have eventually learned, its just a matter of time, or should i say timing.

A war of different haircuts!!! Yep, that's what it was alright!

Actually it was very major, it led to Parliament being set up the way it was. Most countries around the world seem to base their political systems on the British one, so it was an incredibly important war.

I guess the explanation threw me. "I have the power..." It's not like I was forced in some way to have to do one of these. The way it's worded, I get the impression that you assume I have a secret desire to screw the world up. If the explanation was more like "You have to do one of these things, or they'll rape your mother", then I might have considered picking one.

If I was going to change something I'd like to see what it would of been like if the Confederate States had won the Civil War.

actually, wasn't that system originally devoloped in Rome and this is the extention of it. well, the more democratic version of it.

speaking of war of different haircuts, this sounds a lot of like punk rockers vs popular culture back in the 80's. Then again, Mike Mustine (I think that's his name) was once on VH1 being pissed of and saying bad things about "hair metal" bands, like bon jovi, skid row, and bands like that.

yeah, would be pretty interesting.

"actually, wasn't that system originally devoloped in Rome and this is the extention of it. well, the more democratic version of it."

That's not really the system I meant, but it's too hot too write a long explanation!

some of the same concepts came from Rome though. I was wondering though, who first came up with the concept of the three seperate branches of government. is the war between the Cromwells and the Royalists the cause of the system.

I suppose - with the monarch only being part of the political system. Obviously that draws on Ancient Greece and Rome, but for a long time, nobody had political systems like that. Of course, nowadays Britain doesn't have it either - our executive is part of the legislative body (because the monarch has no real role) - only the judiciary is separate.

Yea it would, wouldn't it!

yeah, there is a lot of intertied connections between the 3 branches, so they arent that seperate. over here, I think, the vice president is the president of the senate. also, a lot of intermingling between the 3 involes a lot of 4th parties. some say that burocracies are the 4 th branch of governmetn.

The Arab nations won the Six-Day War with Israel.

With a diaper.

Tha Arab nations won the war against Israel. Let the Arabs have it. The Jews can build their holy land in part of Australia where their hard work and ingenuity will be welcomed and rewarded.

There seems to be a bit of wrong history here.
Germany, Italy and Japan didn't win WWII, otherwise the Jews would still be in camps and murdered. The USA stopped that war by dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Iraq didn't win the first Gulf War. If they did, they'd still be in Kuwait.

Somebody needs a history lesson!

Whoops, I misunderstood.
I didn't realize things were put backwards from the way it actually happened. I probably wouldn't change anything. I'd be afraid it would change the world too much.

I'm surprised somebody hasn't freaked out on here and called you racist

Hey theres nothing racist about wondering what it would be like if the south won, I justkinda wonder.
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