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  1. SavoyTruffle

    A Light Shines East: A Christian Persia TL

    It's alive! Nice to see it back.
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    Miscellaneous >1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    This is a pop culture related question but I don't think it warrants a full thread yet. What if the Beach Boys' Smile was delayed, but not shelved? Let's say it comes out late June/early July of 1967, so around a month after Sgt Pepper came out. To keep things simple, let's use the track...
  3. SavoyTruffle

    How might a modern baby boom occur?

    Make single-income households the norm again, for starters.
  4. SavoyTruffle

    The Fools Who Dream: A 7YW Timeline

    You have my curiosity and attention.
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    Post here historical leaders who were of an ethnic minority (or foreign ethnic group) from the country that they ruled over.

    Ian Khama, former President of Botswana, has English ancestry from his mother. There is a hypothetical timeline where Boris Johnson could have become POTUS due to his birth in the United States.
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    Why isn’t the fact that 400,000 innocent people die in Japanese occupation in august 1945 on, used in the atomic bomb debate more?

    There's a lot of factors on why Japan has a relatively good reputation here despite around three years of war crimes amid occupation. * Most of the generation that experienced those horrors firsthand are already dead, so we're largely left with secondhand accounts at best. My maternal...
  7. SavoyTruffle

    Gipper Falls: An Alternate 80s and Beyond

    So "fo', fo', fo'" is butterflied away. In actuality it was "fo', fi', fo'", but the Sixers' 12-1 run to a championship is now gone.
  8. SavoyTruffle

    A Light Shines East: The World of a Christian Persia

    Huh, that's a rather unique sect. Reminds me a bit of the Baha'i.
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    AH: Why the jews were never expelled from Spain

    Ooh, I like this. While Spain was certainly zealous during this time period - one could argue that their early colonial empire had a crusader bent to it that the later, mercantilist empires of England and France among others didn't have - it wasn't to the point where pragmatism couldn't win the...
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    WI: All of George III's (many) children we're girls?

    There are several ramifications if George III only has daughters. * First off is that Britain and Hanover split earlier - at George's death rather than at William IV's death. Realistically neither side would view it as a huge loss - there was a faction within Britain that thought Hanover was a...
  11. SavoyTruffle

    A Light Shines East: The World of a Christian Persia

    Feels like a mix of the Sunni-Shia conflict with the Crusades.
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    A Light Shines East: The World of a Christian Persia

    A good thing would be what the Latin-influenced parts of Europe would name their days. Naming Saturday and Sunday after the Sabbath and the Lord would be out of the question, so would we see them stick with Saturn and Sol?
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    A Light Shines East: The World of a Christian Persia

    The funny thing is that it's perfectly possible for the European days of the week to be almost exactly like in English in this AH. In the Romance languages (at least in French and Spanish) the days of the week are named after Nordic deities whose identities were conflated with Greco-Roman...
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    A Light Shines East: The World of a Christian Persia

    Another thing to note is that since Europe doesn't seem to have a Charlemagne counterpart, him being instead an Arabian Ebionite ITTL, there's no Carolingian Renaissance that jumpstarts a counterpart to OTL scholasticism and learning. Not saying Europe is bound to languish, of course, but it...
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    A Light Shines East: The World of a Christian Persia

    The OTL Crusaders were borne out of a very specific circumstances that aren't here IOTL. For one, the Turkic invaders are Christian here. Second, unless I'm mistaken the Levant is gonna remain in Christian hands at least for a while since they're part of Abu Yusuf's conquests. Third, there isn't...
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    A Light Shines East: The World of a Christian Persia

    Does Romanian exist TTL?
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    What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?

    The Enlightenment, like many intellectual/ideological movements, was composed of a combination of true believers and amoral opportunists. For every Rousseau who had an optimistic, humanist view of reality you have a Robespierre waiting in the wings to inflict as much suffering with it. For every...
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    What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?

    The surprising thing is that the Enlightenment didn't weaken racism despite one of its ideas being that of the universal equality of man. Then again, I suppose philosophy can only do so much against forces like the greed that drives imperialism.
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    WI: No Franco-Prussian War ?

    No Franco-Prussian War is actually a pretty good scenario for both France and Prussia. Prussia is already ascendant over Germany at this point so unification is a matter of when, not if (though Grossdeutschland remains out of reach for the foreseeable future). They don't get Alsace-Lorraine...
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    A Light Shines East: The World of a Christian Persia

    Gonna be interesting if ITTL the monastic tradition wasn't codified by someone like, say, Benedict of Nursia but a convert from Buddhism or something.
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