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How would the course of world history have been changed if...
...the policies of the British government regarding the New World colonies had been so benign and productive that the American revolution never took place, and the United States never came into existence?
...Adolf Hitler had been accepted into the Academy of Arts, been able to make a living as a painter, and never gotten into any form of political activity?
...the Prophet Mohammed had died in early childhood and never lived to found Islam?
...after the death of the emperor Zhu Di in 1424, the Chinese had not abruptly closed their borders and become fiercely isolationist, but instead continued on with early Ming Dynasty policies of global exploration and the expansion of trade, and continued sending its massive "treasure fleet" of huge ships further and further, eventually reaching Europe and the New World?
...Czar Nicholas and his ministers had been wise enough to see early on that they had to reform Russian society and move towards democracy, and the Russian revolution therefore never took place and the Soviet Union was never formed?
...the Emperor Montezuma had not thought the Spanish were gods, and instead ordered the annihilation of Cortez and every other Spanish expeditionary force that appeared, and Aztec culture had continued to grow and prosper for hundreds of years?
...Bill Gates had no interest at all in computers, and instead went to medical school and became a doctor?
...the policies of the British government regarding the New World colonies had been so benign and productive that the American revolution never took place, and the United States never came into existence?
...Adolf Hitler had been accepted into the Academy of Arts, been able to make a living as a painter, and never gotten into any form of political activity?
...the Prophet Mohammed had died in early childhood and never lived to found Islam?
...after the death of the emperor Zhu Di in 1424, the Chinese had not abruptly closed their borders and become fiercely isolationist, but instead continued on with early Ming Dynasty policies of global exploration and the expansion of trade, and continued sending its massive "treasure fleet" of huge ships further and further, eventually reaching Europe and the New World?
...Czar Nicholas and his ministers had been wise enough to see early on that they had to reform Russian society and move towards democracy, and the Russian revolution therefore never took place and the Soviet Union was never formed?
...the Emperor Montezuma had not thought the Spanish were gods, and instead ordered the annihilation of Cortez and every other Spanish expeditionary force that appeared, and Aztec culture had continued to grow and prosper for hundreds of years?
...Bill Gates had no interest at all in computers, and instead went to medical school and became a doctor?
