Recent content by aspie3000

I am aware that it was the Africans who sold slaves to Europeans. By enslaved I mean that the Europeans owned them as property and forced them to work on plantations and treated them like cattle.

No slavery at all if it can be helped.

One of the great tragedies in history is New World chattel slavery where Africans were enslaved by European colonists and made to work plantations from Brazil to the Caribbean to the American south. So basically my question is what would the world look like if New World chattel slavery didn't...

I second the Apartheid South Africa thing but with the difference that whites would be the majority. States rights kind of faded away in the CSA as the war went on and the government from what I've read was actually pretty centralized. It had to be to effectively fight the Civil War.

The original purpose of the constitutional convention was to amend the Articles of Confederation; instead the founders created a new constitution and system of government. My question is, what if they had actually amended the articles of confederation? Could they amend the articles so that the...

This is kind of a weird question but its for an idea regarding a story. In a world where Christianity never happens and nothing replaces it and Europe stays pagan would the borders of Europe arrive at something resembling the borders of 800 AD in the same year? What would be the effect of no...

During the Viking age of the Middle Ages the Norse from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark sailed in their long ships to new lands and were able to found new Nordic societies like Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe islands, and Vinland. Some of these societies survived such as Iceland and the Faroe Islands...

Still could achieve something approaching the desired effect. After all the Anglo Saxons aren't thought to have demographically displaced the Romanized Celts of Britain but to have interbred with and culturally dominated them. Maybe they could pull the same trick with the Norse Icelanders. They...

Yeah, I know that's the problem. That's why this is a challenge.

The best way to deal with the Norse problem I would think is to have Anglo Saxons somehow settle Iceland in large numbers before the Norse expansion in such a degree that the Norse cannot displace them.

The challenge is to instead of having Norwegians settle Iceland have Anglo Saxons settle the island. I don't know if this is an easy challenge or a hard one but the challenge is basically to have Anglo Saxons settle Iceland and have a completely Germanic English speaking population survive to...

I liked your post and thus change my ideal borders to yours. I like the idea of every nation and ethnic group having their own state even if it is impractical.

So, I'm sure everyone on this board has heard of William Walker the Southern American from Tennessee who conquered Nicaragua, became president of that country and was later ousted by the rest of the Central American powers. If you aren't here's a Wikipedia article on him...

Flanders is part of the Netherlands, Walloons is part of France. Independent Brittany, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Wales, and Scotland, which form a European Union like entity with the republic of Ireland called the Union of Celtic Nations. The Ulster Scots get Ulster as their own independent state...

And after they lose, "It was about STATES RIGHTS!"