But's it's also a sure fired way of making the WI work.Yes but that's boring since it actually happened somewhere, we gotta try to have little fun with this.
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But's it's also a sure fired way of making the WI work.Yes but that's boring since it actually happened somewhere, we gotta try to have little fun with this.
But's it's also a sure fired way of making the DBWI work.
OOC: You have a point. Also I feel stupid for typing "DBWI". I will change that to WI.OOC: actually the point of the DBWI is essentially to come at it from the perspective of ignorance of our world and how things actually happened, it kind of pokes fun at the whole idea of the site but is also a novel way of coming up with alt history scenarios and attitudes.
I think this is one of the longest lasting non-TL threads I have ever seen (other than perhaps my first thread asking what if no rome).
Hell if I wasnt so damn busy (and bad at starting things) I would probably have turned it into one by now.
OOC: Arada da Jadida (Arabic for New Land) is I what I think we used for awhile.OOC: It's been done IRL. Can't remember what the book is called though.
IC: To get an industrial revolution in Europe, or rather, in what we culturally define as Europe, you have to butterfly away Al-Andalus. Don't forget, it was Al-Andalus that first discovered the Western Continent*; and with it the vast gold reserves in the South. They then managed to capture Songhay and control the transaharan trade. That flood of wealth into the Muslim world depressed the market, and allowed more gold to flow into the hands of merchants and artisans than normally would have. If some Christian kingdom were to control Iberia, they would likely replace OTL Al-Andalus.
*No idea what the Arabic for America would be.
Didn't the Gold from Arada da Jadida cause Al-Andalus to have severe inflation for almost a century?OOC: It's been done IRL. Can't remember what the book is called though.
IC: To get an industrial revolution in Europe, or rather, in what we culturally define as Europe, you have to butterfly away Al-Andalus. Don't forget, it was Al-Andalus that first discovered the Western Continent*; and with it the vast gold reserves in the South. They then managed to capture Songhay and control the transaharan trade. That flood of wealth into the Muslim world depressed the market, and allowed more gold to flow into the hands of merchants and artisans than normally would have. If some Christian kingdom were to control Iberia, they would likely replace OTL Al-Andalus.
*No idea what the Arabic for America would be.