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danteheadman reacted to tus3's post in the thread AHC: Industrial revolution in Ancient Greece with
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Metallurgy was not advanced enough for steam engines. Even with two millennia of advances in metal working, the first steam engines had... -
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The Greek islands don't have abundant oil, coal, or firewood for fueling industrial processes, they would need to conquer neighboring...
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danteheadman reacted to Falecius's post in the thread Umayyads manage to take Rome and Constantinople. Could the Umayyads take the title of Roman emperor with Like.
Damascus was the Umayyad capital, and it most definitely was not a newly founded city. Likewise for most centers in Iran and Syria. The...
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danteheadman reacted to Fed's post in the thread Umayyads manage to take Rome and Constantinople. Could the Umayyads take the title of Roman emperor with Like.
Syria is not considered “Roman” in part because the Muslim invasions managed to take that very early on, and so there’s almost a...
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danteheadman reacted to stevej713's post in the thread Umayyads manage to take Rome and Constantinople. Could the Umayyads take the title of Roman emperor with Like.
I don't think it was quite that simple. Suleiman had a quadruple crowned tiara crafted to show his superiority over the Papacy and for...
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danteheadman reacted to Monter's post in the thread Umayyads manage to take Rome and Constantinople. Could the Umayyads take the title of Roman emperor with Like.
It was more of a geographical title than anything, Kaysar-i Rum meant he was the ruler of Rum, meaning the Balkans and Anatolia, which...
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danteheadman replied to the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did?.Right, so the Scythians were paid. They weren't integrated, but were provided with land and loot to secure their loyalty.
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danteheadman reacted to John7755 يوحنا's post in the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did? with Like.
I feel that we should not be too harsh on China during the Qing period. All states, periods and societies eventually face declines due...
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danteheadman reacted to KingOnTheEdge's post in the thread What could have been some alternate Cradles of Civilization? with Like.
I assume we take cradle to mean "city states or empire with clear agriculture and domesticstion" The mississippi was a cradle OTL, just...
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danteheadman replied to the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did?."Civilized barbarians on the periphery" are often the most dangerous to the imperial core, because they're both (1) able to incorporate...
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danteheadman reacted to Socrates's post in the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did? with Like.
That is of course true, but (to a lesser extent) most autocracies do things modern economists think is dumb. That's because the magic...
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danteheadman reacted to dcharleos's post in the thread AHCWI: Make Europe Want To Carve Up China with Like.
Uh... It was kind of an issue at the time.
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danteheadman reacted to Fabius Maximus's post in the thread AHC: Earlier scientific method post Roman collapse with Like.
"Aristotle ruined science" is a nonsense take which really needs to die, in my opinion. Aristotle didn't become the dominant...
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danteheadman reacted to Goldensilver81's post in the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did? with Like.
I think it's not overstated polítical division is one thing but the kings were by far not absolute monarchs in the early middle ages As...
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danteheadman reacted to GuildedAgeNostalgia's post in the thread What if Europe stayed primarily united as an empire as China did? with Like.
This just isn't true and is borderline cliche. Autocracy does not automatically equate to intellectual stagnation. - The Roman and...