Name: Top 10 Mind-Blowing Alternate Histories That Almost Happened
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Its victims fall into terrible fever and dark despair.

And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10.

And how much of their seafaring skill did they bequeathed to medieval Europe?

For this list, we're looking at various hypothetical alternate histories that could have occurred if events had played out just a little differently.

Do you find the scariest or most intriguing?

The Internet doesn't become commercial If you want a computer, here's how to get the most out of it.

Without buying lots of expensive software, the Internet could be very different today.

Writing for intelligencer author Brian Feldman notes that had the National Science Foundation not allowed commercial activity in 1991 the Internet would still be confined to academia.

We'd be getting all our information from, you know, doing research in books.

That wasn't the last hurdle the Internet had to jump over.

If the FCC had been put in charge in the mid nineties, the Internet would likely be heavily censored, like network television.

The FCC has forbidden audible flatulence.

Everyone is now required to wear this device that converts all fart sounds into Steven Wright jokes.

In a similar vein in 1998 Congress passed an act that would have banned Children from using certain sites.

Fortunately, it was shot down for being too broad and unenforceable.

Number nine, Washington is killed in battle.

As Hamilton taught us, George Washington was a major figure in the American Revolutionary War.

I'm working with the third of what our Congress has promised.

He led the Patriot forces and following the country's victory, helped establish the U.

Constitution and served two terms as the first president of the United States.

Suffice it to say the man was pretty darned important.

Author Eric Moreau's opines that if he'd been killed before France joined the fray, America could well have lost the war and remained a British colony.

It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with more lasting results upon the history of the world.

If he died later in the war, it's possible that the two term president for US presidents would never have been set, allowing one person to lead the country indefinitely.

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In the 16th century, German theologian and monk Martin Luther challenged the authority of the Catholic Church, leading to the Reformation and the birth of Protestantism.

Never before had a man of the people excited such enthusiasm.

Ordinary people, peasants and members of the lower aristocracy in particular, put their hopes in this monk from Wittenberg.

This significantly eroded the Catholic Church's authority and led to the birth of new Christian denominations.

This movement, known as Protestantism, swept across Germany and then on to France, the Netherlands, Belgium.

But in every place it took a different form.

Today, it's estimated that 37% of all Christians or one billion people, are Protestants.

If this never happened, then Catholicism would be far more prevalent.

Today, it's possible that the pope would be the most influential and powerful man in the world.

English novelist Kingsley Amos explored this idea in his novel The Alteration, describing a world in which the Catholic Church rules with an iron fist, suppressing literature, technology and human sexuality.

For centuries, people simply followed the path laid out for them by their church, and their leaders of the Reformation showed them another way.

Number seven, the South wins the Civil War.

56,000 died in the prisons of North and South.

Now, so many decades after the event, the hurt is still there, and people still ask why Fought from 18 61 to 18 65 the American Civil War ended with the union defeating the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery in the US But what if Abraham Lincoln had failed and the South had one?

Instead, 1960 Writer McKinley Cantor offered one possible answer, suggesting that the southern forces would have annexed Washington D.

C and continued to enslave black people, leading to mounting international pressure and further civil strife.

All through the South, the tremor runs the convulsion of a once serene society that feels itself threatened with extinction.

On the other hand, novelist Harry Turtledove Southern Victory Series imagines the union and Confederate states continuing as separate nations and choosing separate sides in World War.

However you look at it, it seems clear that slavery would have continued for far longer and that the United States might not be united today.

Adolf Hitler's hypothetical death or assassination has served as a popular think peace for decades, and many theories have been put forth regarding its potential ramifications.

Hitler claimed that a British soldier spared his life in World War if he'd been killed.

Instead, the Nazi party may not have risen to power, potentially averting World War two.

From the time he was elected chancellor in 1933 Hitler seized every opportunity to influence the masses inside Germany.

There were also numerous attempts to assassinate Hitler both before and during the Second World War, most famously, the 20 July plot in 1944.

During this attempt, a table leg shielded Hitler from the bomb blast.

If it hadn't, the war may have seen a faster and more peaceful end.

Of course, that's just one of many, many possibilities.

Christianity has had a major impact on history, and it's hard to envision a reality without it.

Christianity is a monotheistic religion that centers on the teachings of Jesus Christ, believed to be the son of an almighty universal god.

It is through faith in Jesus Christ and his teachings that believers have access to God and afterlife.

What would European history have been like?

Perhaps a polytheistic one well to start with, the Roman Empire would not have adopted Christianity in the fourth century.

A D one empire, one god, one emperor Greco Roman mystery cults might have boomed, instead fulfilling hope for reward in the afterlife.

Scientific and academic institutions would have been free of the Catholic Church's authority, yes, science, but would have lacked the church's patronage which was key in their development.

Basically, modern day Western civilization would be unrecognizable, possibly in very unexpected ways.

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