Most ASB event that happened in OTL

What is to you the most ASB thing that happened in OTL? Before 1900 of course...

My nomination are:
1. Alexanders conquest of the Persian Empire

2. The City Rome turning in to one of the largest Empire

3. The small Ottoman Beylik in a small town turning in to one of the largest Empire in two centuries.
 

yoyo

Banned
A boring island with terrible food and hideous teeth managed to dominated everyone even on a genetic scale.
 
1 Cyrus the Great
2 Alexander the Great
3 Genghis Khan
4 Timur

These guys, honestly. They were like a boulder rolling off a mountain which wouldn’t just stop, getting bigger and bigger in the meanwhile.
 

yoyo

Banned
Ancient Egypt, Anatolian States, and Mesopotamian kingdoms being overtaken and destroyed by the mediterannean basin, iranian plateau and the Arabian Peninsula.
 
The absolute dominance of the Arabs and Islam in the Levant, Middle East, and North Africa, and the resulting cultural dominance in that region, marginalising local Christians, Zoroastrians, and other faiths. The Caliphates and other Muslim states did such an incredible job that in other circumstances would be deemed ASB.

Persia and India going from vibrant centers of civilisation to peripheral colonies. British India would be deemed ASB in any other context, especially since it included many lands beyond the Indus River and even Burma of all places, which almost beat the British in the first war against them and caused huge economic damage in the process.

Or the small timber fort on the Moskva river becoming the capital of one of the most massive states on earth in the same amount of time.

Only because they beat a bunch of other minor forts for that title (although it helped they had a prince who was great friends with the head of the religion there). Come to think of it, same with the Roman Empire (beat a bunch of small post-Etruscan cities to make an empire), the Ottoman Empire (beat a bunch of small Turkish states to make an Empire).

A boring island with terrible food and hideous teeth managed to dominated everyone even on a genetic scale.

A lot of coal plus leeching off the continent's innovations without having to fight too much in their wars will help do that. Plus grab Northern America once the natives are depopulated by disease (obviously depopulate the natives more by war and all). So much farmland, lots of natural population increase, etc., huge economic resources, why, you've secured your cultural descendents (even if they aren't so much like you and come from your continental rivals, people you conquered, people you hate as barbarians, or even people you trade as livestock) dominance over the world for many centuries.

What do you eat apart from potatoes:p?

Irish Americans gave us the St. Patrick's Day meal--corned beef, cabbage, soda bread, potatoes. It's really good, and I'd take it over fish and chips. Don't think it's too popular in Ireland though (seems to be a New England thing).
 
Having been around to watch the events unfold, I'm still amazed at the implosion of the USSR/Warsaw Pact as well as the fall of the Apartheid regime of South Africa. One, that it happened at all, and two, that it happened with as little bloodshed as actually occurred.
 
The fact that a collection of 13 squabbling States banded together and in 200 years became one of the strongest nations in world history
 
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