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Apologies for the bad pun. This was an attempt to make an alternate history scenario with a random number generator, which handed me 2789 BCE as a PoD. As I couldn't really do anything with it, realism got thrown out the window.

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The eggheads still aren't sure about the exact point of divergence for this timeline. Instruments indicate sometime around 2789 BCE, but we have yet to determine the exact nature of the divergence seeing as both local historical records and our own records are very incomplete. One noticeable difference in early history is the worship of the Egyptian god Set in the place of Ra, and the discovery of ancient Egyptian artifacts as far north as the Aegean Sea.

The Linguistic Department has done a good job of deciphering their languages so we do have some idea of what's going on. The situation is not unlike that preceding the Great War in our own history, but the centers of power have remained largely within the Near East as opposed to moving to Europe. A bloc, calling themselves the "Alliance of the Six Realms" (rough translation) is an alliance under the direction of Kemet (Egypt). Their main rivals appear to be Punt and Ilam, two empires who have a long-standing rivalry with Kemet. This has joined the with conflicts between Ilam, Ayriana and the Mohguir Khaganate to create a powder keg in Eurasia. In the Americas, rivalry between the Oacaphatl and the Despotate of Manat (their word for the Americas, apparently) threaten to spread any war to the new world. We suspect that the continued survival of pre-discovery American cultures can be attributed to gradual contact via "Wykiig" settlers.

The cultural situation is almost totally alien from ours. Millennia of divergent cultural evolution and migration will do that. Technology is similar to that found during the Second World War, but nearly a century ahead of schedule. Worse still, each of the great powers has a small stock of primitive nuclear weapons. Strangely, monotheism is more popular in the east than in the west, and is a development from "Mygharth," what the Anthropology Department theorizes is a descendant of the Indus Valley civilization we know so little about in our history. The Kemetites worship a different set of gods, but Anthropology claims they can see how it evolved from the ancient Set cult. Oddly, the Oacaphatl still practice human sacrifice, albeit as a form of execution, and incest with close family members is still popular among some Kemetite royals, leading to some very bad apples taking the throne. Politically, the Despotate of Manat is under an insane totalitarian regime with a pantheon of its revolutionary heroes, and the Kiltik Republic has established state ownership of all property in its constitution. Democracy is strangely absent, save for a few tribal governments in Africa. Overall, this is not a world I would spend my vacation in.

Description
Apologies for the bad pun. This was an attempt to make an alternate history scenario with a random number generator, which handed me 2789 BCE as a PoD. As I couldn't really do anything with it, realism got thrown out the window.

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The eggheads still aren't sure about the exact point of divergence for this timeline. Instruments indicate sometime around 2789 BCE, but we have yet to determine the exact nature of the divergence seeing as both local historical records and our own records are very incomplete. One noticeable difference in early history is the worship of the Egyptian god Set in the place of Ra, and the discovery of ancient Egyptian artifacts as far north as the Aegean Sea.

The Linguistic Department has done a good job of deciphering their languages so we do have some idea of what's going on. The situation is not unlike that preceding the Great War in our own history, but the centers of power have remained largely within the Near East as opposed to moving to Europe. A bloc, calling themselves the "Alliance of the Six Realms" (rough translation) is an alliance under the direction of Kemet (Egypt). Their main rivals appear to be Punt and Ilam, two empires who have a long-standing rivalry with Kemet. This has joined the with conflicts between Ilam, Ayriana and the Mohguir Khaganate to create a powder keg in Eurasia. In the Americas, rivalry between the Oacaphatl and the Despotate of Manat (their word for the Americas, apparently) threaten to spread any war to the new world. We suspect that the continued survival of pre-discovery American cultures can be attributed to gradual contact via "Wykiig" settlers.

The cultural situation is almost totally alien from ours. Millennia of divergent cultural evolution and migration will do that. Technology is similar to that found during the Second World War, but nearly a century ahead of schedule. Worse still, each of the great powers has a small stock of primitive nuclear weapons. Strangely, monotheism is more popular in the east than in the west, and is a development from "Mygharth," what the Anthropology Department theorizes is a descendant of the Indus Valley civilization we know so little about in our history. The Kemetites worship a different set of gods, but Anthropology claims they can see how it evolved from the ancient Set cult. Oddly, the Oacaphatl still practice human sacrifice, albeit as a form of execution, and incest with close family members is still popular among some Kemetite royals, leading to some very bad apples taking the throne. Politically, the Despotate of Manat is under an insane totalitarian regime with a pantheon of its revolutionary heroes, and the Kiltik Republic has established state ownership of all property in its constitution. Democracy is strangely absent, save for a few tribal governments in Africa. Overall, this is not a world I would spend my vacation in.