Recent content by archaeogeek

lol, okay. That's why they lobby for reduced worker rights and repress unionization efforts in blood while offering only starvation level wages. :rolleyes: It's a pity only the soviet union realized it was morally bankrupt at the end of the cold war.

That must be why the collective business community is busy wiping its ass with the universal declaration of human rights in much of the third world. Also, prior to the soviet revolution, the dominant left in Europe was anarchist.

The ideas predate Marx, who based most of his economics on Ricardo anyway.

The fact that you write walls of text on a phone gives me pause. A fascinating book. I add to this two excellent academic biographies of the two Tudor Henry, and an overview of the Plantagenet "empire", but sadly it's in french. The latter was also how the french Jacquerie worked, and is not...

It was a) not exclusively english and b) made possible by historical circumstances which the need for backers in France won't make replicable. The 100YW was not for england's benefit, but for the benefit of the house of Plantagenet. England had rather long streaks of quasi-absolutism where...

So it would be the late byzantines, which is not much different.

Indeed - this is especially bad for Canada, which has to deploy in two oceans - when the tories sought to expand the navy the last time, it wasn't with carriers, but with a dozen french SSN.

Well, yes, it's already established that you care little but space-filling, however, there is a very nice set of POD for French England, you can have Louis I of England succeed at his bid for power during the first barons' war, for example. There's also a host of dynastic games that can be...

Champagne is not any piece of land, it's the equivalent of turning Paris (already a major center of European culture by the time the house of Plantagenet appeared) into a frontier, it's part of France's breadbasket and only an idiot would give it up. Besides it was never part of Lotharingia.

19th, my mistake, but quite a number of the scottish dukes had their seats in England. At least among newer creations.

Actually, the frontier did shift east in the west, as flemish used to be spoken in Artois, and much of Lorraine was germanized, not just the Metz area.

For Canada, the navy could afford submarines or carriers, not both. That was not particular to Trudeau either, despite some claims here.

Which would mean an absorbtion of much of its aristocracy, then, as by the 18th century most of the important scottish peers were largely english. Also, it's easy for England to have a more efficient administration, with 1/6 the population, 1/4 the size, it was more a slightly larger Brittany...

5000 tons is just about half the size of Bonaventure, except with a crappier airwing. Also it was closer to 1000.

I would see Sicily as not terribly likely, seeing as it's not part of the kingdom of Italy, and is one of the Aragonese crowns