Next entry in the alternate history series: 54'40" Was Fought
No Googling now. If you don't know, guess which of these really happened, THEN click through. No mousing over to look where the links go either, smart guy. In chronological order of when they occurred or would have occurred:
- The U.S. military investigated LSD as a potential chemical warfare agent in the 1960s - but the first intentional use of biological or chemical warfare was in the seventh century B.C., when the Assyrians deliberately poisoned wells with ergot, a fungus which produces LSD-like compounds.
- A lost phalanx of Alexander the Great entered China and crushed the Qin outpost they encountered
- People living along the Mediterranean in ancient Greek times travelled to central Africa and had a hostile skirmish with pygmies controlling an oasis in the Sahara
- A purge of Buddhists from the Imperial Court in Japan
- The Moorish conquest of a Swiss village
- A Norse Kingdom in Sicily
- An Islamic khanate in Siberia which included Uralic-speaking subjects? (i.e. related to Finnish and Estonian)
- A Tibetan Buddhist republic in recent European Russia
- A Tokugawa naval expedition to Mexico
- Sacagawea's son moved to Europe as a young man with his German prince buddy, touring Europe and North Africa
- A United States of Central America
- Monterey, California "accidentally" taken over by American naval forces when it was still part of Mexico, several years before any war broke out, then given back
- A civil war between Mormons and the rest of the U.S., when Mormons considered everything out to California to be part of the state of Deseret
- A Scottish Colony in Panama
- U.S. and Germany fighting each other after being drawn into the Samoan Civil War on opposite sides
- A serious twentieth century effort to overthrow the U.S. government funded by major corporations, which resulted in criminal prosections
Did you click through? Here's a hint: only one of these was made up. The rest are true. The world is strange.
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