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BBadolato replied to the thread The Reign of Emperor Xiaomu of Han (A Han Dynasty TL).I wish it felt that way, this map was an exercise in suffering when it came to making it. It was a 140 AD/CE population map, with it's... -
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BBadolato reacted to Arkenfolm's post in the thread Was the Emperor of Japan truly powerless prior to the Meiji Restoration? with Like.
Yes. The court (and thus the Emperor) was very much screwed over by the decline of the shoen, Japan's landholding structure. That was...
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BBadolato replied to the thread Was the Emperor of Japan truly powerless prior to the Meiji Restoration?.To chime in, the main problem with any kind of 'Restoration' is the Emperor either to has his own powerbase and reliable supports, or is...
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BBadolato reacted to Arkenfolm's post in the thread Was the Emperor of Japan truly powerless prior to the Meiji Restoration? with Like.
That was advocated by Confucians who were ideological predecessors to the movement that culminated in the Meiji Restoration. But the...
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BBadolato reacted to Metempsychosis's post in the thread Was the Emperor of Japan truly powerless prior to the Meiji Restoration? with Like.
The thing is that Shinto and Buddhism weren't really considered separate things, or rather, the non-Abrahamic religious atmosphere of...
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BBadolato replied to the thread The Reign of Emperor Xiaomu of Han (A Han Dynasty TL).Without further ado, this abomination of a map, that I think is at times ugly, and unfortunately this site won't accept the full map at...
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BBadolato replied to the thread Map Thread XXII.Okay, I've finally managed to do it, even if it was a total pain in the ass, but I hope it can be read. This is an attempted political...
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The PoD is that in A.D. 363, Julian the Apostate manages to return victorious from his Persian campaign, leaving Sassanid Persia in a...
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BBadolato replied to the thread What civilization or nation deserves to have its own TL?.All of them.
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BBadolato reacted to WhatSantayanaSaid's post in the thread What if a more conservative Japan started the first sino-Japanese war in the mid-late 1860s? with Like.
The last time a Japanese ruler said, "Hey, let's invade the mainland, it'll be profitable and you'll all get benefit from this" with the...
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BBadolato reacted to WhatSantayanaSaid's post in the thread What if a more conservative Japan started the first sino-Japanese war in the mid-late 1860s? with Like.
https://kb.osu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f52b15e7-2080-5268-b219-1c8bf909356e/content The tozama daimyo were barred from certain...
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BBadolato reacted to WhatSantayanaSaid's post in the thread What if a more conservative Japan started the first sino-Japanese war in the mid-late 1860s? with Like.
1 & 2. Yes, and a decade wasn't enough for Japan to industrialize and take advantage of Qing weakness. They had their own problems that...
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BBadolato reacted to WhatSantayanaSaid's post in the thread What if a more conservative Japan started the first sino-Japanese war in the mid-late 1860s? with Like.
1. What compelling reason would the Japanese have to actually take the Dutch seriously? The Tokugawa Shogunate had been at peace for 200...
