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    Posted: 03-Dec-2005 at 20:40
Could someone tell me which word in English language is used to express a logical reconstruction, applied to history science, assuming events nonhappened, but that could have happened.

In spanish is Ucrona. In english?


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source : uchronia
http://www.uchronia.net

alternate history,alternative history, allohistory, counterfactuals, if-worlds, uchron ia and uchronie, parallel worlds, abwegige geschichten, etc. Whatever it is called, alternate history somehow involves one or more past events which "happened otherwise" and includes some amount of description of the subsequent effects on history. Perhaps the most common themes in alternate history are "What if the Nazis won World War II?" and "What if the Confederacy won the Civil War?", but alternate Napoleons, Roman Empires, and Kennedys are also popular subjects.

I have seen some interesting uchronic books:


What if The Spanish Armada conquered England.









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 Alternative history is great fun, but you just have to be careful not to get to deep into it, once you get past the plausible possibilities and maybes you get into pure guesswork and then stupidity as it get more and more unrealistic.

 There's a million "What if?" theories out there, some are interesting some are just irritating.
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