Without the Revolution the sectional differences are going to be less accentuated. Slavery is likely to persist in the Mid-Atlantic states (and Virginia is likely to be considered a Mid-Atlantic, rather than Southern or Upper Southern, state for longer) for a while longer. It will never reach...
This is fairly true.
But it's just worth keeping in mind that this won't be Victorian Britan + More Land in North America. A British Empire that holds on to the lower North American colonies is going to be fundamentally different from the one IOTL.
If they didn't start getting treated like part of the metropole in terms of trade policy? No.
As long as the American colonies are on the 'colonial' end of the British Imperial trade system, used as an extractive resource by the mother country instead of a real part of England, they will not...
I don't think you can really say what is 'most important'. The Industrial Revolution was a perfect storm of many factors coming together at exactly the right time in exactly the right place.
Not to mention under- and mal-nourished. Most people's diets back then, even when they got enough calories, were absolutely horrible in terms of the types they'd get. Cereals, beer, maybe milk. Extremely occasionally some kind of meat.
Certain primitive cultures could sustain extreme...
I dunno about five. While you're absolutely correct about this, life-span only 'opened up' to the 70's after you fifteen or twenty.
Living into your late 70's and 80's was still remarkable, and the 90's totally unheard of. Modern medicine certainly has added some years to average...
They remained extremely important even after the Dominate. I'm trying to remember exactly which Emperor it was, but a post-Diocletian Emperor made a tour of the Empire once, going through the whole 'divine ruler' spiel all across the Empire until he reached Italy, at which point he 'took off'...
'Poetry and beats' isn't quite what rap is. Human beings have been rhythmically performing poetry over an accompanying beat since pre-historic times. It's probably not even something unique to homo sapiens.
You need the development of things like modern ideas of meter and harmonic tuning, you...
Ignorance or not, he has a point: The musical antecedents of rap and hip-hop were about a millennium and a half away at the point where Rome dominated the Mediterranean. Having Rome invent rap would be like having ancient China invent trance music.
I don't think that would ever pass.
I don't think that would pass today.
I see it as more likely that the bar is lowered to 2/3's from the current 3/4's for state acceptance of an amendment proposal than anything like that ever happening.
Seriously, that's tantamount to the establishment of a...
While the great rotating clockwork of history is often indifferent to the thoughts, ideas, or existence of particular individuals, sometimes the gears line up just right to focus intensely on the character of individual men (or women).
Think you the United States would have turned out the way...
The same critique of the use of knowledge in a centrally planned economy applies to one with the internet as it does to one without. The one with will do better, but still fail but comparison to an economy with a decentralized planning apparatus.
Did I ever say it had to be different?
He couldn't marry the Polish heiress without converting because the Polish heiress was--get this--Christian. The Polish heiress was a Christian because the Poles were another domino in a series that traced its way back to that first finger flick in the low...