The “Alexandrian World” AH's major technological divergence was the survival of the Library of Alexandria. Since we're talking alternate world as well as history, working backward from that fulcrum event – asking what in the natural world might have made that fulcrum event turn out differently – can help designing a map with geography that reinforces the cultural, political and technological set-up. What fulcrum event sent history in a different direction – eventually causing a steampunk industrial revolution? Working forward from that key event helps flesh out what civs populate the world and what their relationships would be at the time the scenario begins. One way to develop plausible civs for a unified set of scenarios is to start with the AH (alternate history) backstory.
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