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  1. WI: Oil-based industrialization is easier than coal-based industrialization?

    Oil requires a lot of materials science like better pumps and the ability to mass produce reliable pipelines. There's a reason why even when oil and coal occurred in close proximity like in Pennsylvania, coal was the preferred fuel and oil restricted to certain niches before production was...

  2. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    Berber culture and shared geography ensures the Maghreb would remain a fairly coherent cultural area distinct from any in Europe. It's going to have its own quirks, practices, etc. due to its origins in Romano-Berber culture as opposed to the Romano-Germanic culture of Europe proper. Some Berber...

  3. Christian Holdouts in Morocco

    If a substantial Canarian polity emerged, then it could easily play the role of Ireland to North Africa be it the religious role of Ireland or the multitude of attacks that Irish tribes made in Scotland and Wales. And that possibly includes relations with the Norse, but I think that given the...

  4. Christian Holdouts in Morocco

    The main difficulty is that much of modern Morocco was tribal and not very Roman, ergo not very Christian, and this situation only gets worse the further south you go. On the other hand, Kusaila, a Christian Berber king who fought the Arabs for some time, had links to this area and indeed his...

  5. AHC Longer Pax Mongolia

    It somewhat did OTL. The Red Sea trade networks were nowhere near as important at varying times in history, usually corresponding to a relatively stable Persia and Central Asia. It's not surprising that as the Silk Road declined with piracy in the Persian Gulf and later fall of the Ilkhanate...

  6. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan

    Not really, it's more of a one time thing driven by the right combination of propaganda and sudden fervor. It might not work so well in the future. Buyantu Khan is not quite as interested in Buddhism as other Yuan khans, but at the same time he remains a patron of it. I doubt there would be...

  7. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan
    Threadmarks: Chapter 46-The Schemer and the Princes

    -XLVI- "The Schemer and the Princes" Sai-ji, Kyoto, Yamashiro Province, April 2, 1310 Miura Tokiaki looked at his dying father Yorimori as he lay in the garden of the rebuilt temple of Sai-ji. His skeletal frame was now but a shell of himself as he prepared to leave his body for the final...

  8. WI: Filipino Thalassocracies in Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia?

    Ming China intervened in Sri Lanka (who sent tribute to the Ming and to other Chinese dynasties), the modern US has intervened in many countries, and medieval Genoa and Venice regularly supported piracy against North Africa whilst funding and providing ships for the Crusades, but you wouldn't...

  9. WI: Filipino Thalassocracies in Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia?

    Pretty much a zilch chance of that since the volume would still be too low, except on the westernmost fringe closest to Asia.

  10. WI: Filipino Thalassocracies in Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia?

    A thallasocracy would be a bad term, since in truth this sort of system is closer to a simple trade network. And clearly OTL the trade network that existed was effective at moving sandalwood from Indonesia. The precolonial Philippines had fairly low demand because the population was not large...

  11. Under wings of the Zilant: a Golden horde timeline

    IIRC Uriankhai was a generic term for Turkic and Mongolic speaking tribes who lived in a specific area. Some tribes who became the Buryat were Uriankhai. They were important because the so-called "forest tribes" supplied all the furs and other trade goods to the "steppe tribes" (like the ones...

  12. AHC Longer Pax Mongolia

    I should also note about Ananda that one of the advantages (or potentially disadvantages) is he had two brothers and a son named Orug Temur who were active participants in Yuan politics, and his son lived until 1332 when he was assassinated. One of the real problems with the Borjigin khans of...

  13. AHC Longer Pax Mongolia

    It isn't so much that Ananda was a Muslim rather than his chosen ideology was the "steppe" ideology. This was a constant theme in Mongol succession struggles i.e. Kublai vs Ariq Boke. He and his government are going to favour traditional Mongol prerogatives and potentially neglect development...

  14. Vulcanized Rubber from the 1500s Onward

    I think it's definitely feasible. Spanish writers of the 16th century knew that Mesoamericans wore rubber-soled sandals, and they seemed to know that "juice from a vine" (several members of genus Ipomaea, which has sulfur compounds in it) produced the high-quality rubber used for footwear and...

  15. Cape-based Vavilov Center

    There were hundreds of thousands of non-Bantu people when Europeans first arrived in southern Africa, and contrary to popular belief there were many among them who were pastoralists or even farmers. Now this particular situation seems to have emerged in the first few centuries AD, but given the...

  16. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    Check Cambridge History of Africa. Masinissa of Numidia in particular was noted by Polybius for turning his country into a major grain exporter, but settled agriculture was also found in Mauretania to the west (albeit not to the same extent). Why would they prioritise those connections? Trade...

  17. AHC Longer Pax Mongolia

    The Ilkhanate's big problem is that Ghazan was the last ruler who tried to wrangle his emirs. Once it became apparent that the Ilkhan was nothing more than simply the biggest power-broker in the realm (as Oljaitu and Abu Said Bahadur acted as), it was clear the realm would fray at the first sign...

  18. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    I don't understand why you're attributing to much significance to the trans-Saharan trade when the main revenue of Africa was from exporting grain and locally-produced dyes to Europe. The Berbers of North Africa were fundamentally a Mediterranean nation, with their culture deeply influenced by...

  19. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    The difference is there was far greater Arab migration to Tunisia than there ever was to Spain. Christianity in Late Antiquity was of course very fractitious and divided, and it isn't surprising that many locals converted. It's very possible given the prevelance of Judaism among the Berbers and...

  20. A Realm of Cascadia Created Before 1900

    If early British Columbia were better managed, they could've ended up an independent dominion, especially if a united Canada is kneecapped. I feel if they grabbed all of Washington too, then they could've had a lot more staying power. There's some definite parallels to early Australian and...
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