Recent content by FelOnyx

In theory, almost as many as there are Russian speakers today. Moscow dominated as the regional power the Mongols saw best fit to collect taxes on their behalf. If you could get an Uralic-speaking power on the ascendency at just the right time, willing to be cooperative enough with their...

My only problem now with the latest changes is the amount of unused white space on the sides in desktop mode. Mobile is just about perfect, and I like the light grey mode on both. The top and bottom parts of the page being black instead of blue is mildly annoying but obviously not the end of the...

I think all the "give such and such native people agriculture" timelines are interesting, but they aren't really saving the culture of those areas as we would recognize them. They always entail a fundimental transformation of those cultures at least a 1000 years before the present day. The Ainu...

I don't think it would have changed much. Money aside, this was a man who once ruled all of Europe. He was never going to take kindly to a glorified prison, no matter what the benefits to his family were. Whether he could have ever controlled France once again it perhaps more cirumstancial, but...

Can you say why you think 1204 was overrated? The argument for it being important is pretty obvious, and even if the Byzantines were doomed to decline it seems that their capitol being captured and the empire shattered would have speeded things along quite a bit.

What if the coup that puts them in American hands fails, and Hawaiii stays neutral until the Japanese take them? Or Ze Germans take over (somehow) and the Japanese seize them after WWI? Was there ever any German effort to gain some kind of influence over the isles?

To some extent they did. After converting, the Ilkhanate turned Tabriz into a center of Islamic learning and culture. But they fell relatively quickly, as did the Timurids after them. The whole region was pretty chaotic for a while, unlike China unified under the Yuan and then Ming.

Dentists would be out a ton of money. Mixed feelings, more likely. There's all sorts of things that could fill the gap if soda and the like never takes off. Take any refreshing drink that's obscure or regional today, and it could be huge in this world. I could even imagine things like...

Thank you for clarifying a point everyone was clear on.

Doesn't this make Jesus the God-Emperor of Mankind? I thought the original was cool, (even if I forgot to check on it after the first post and didn't realize it died) so it's good to see it back.

This is cool. CT dog best dog.

Amusing as that would be, what would be Japan's motive? I don't think they would have much intrest in throwing forces at Constantinople of all places.

Wow, sounds like an RPG moral descision point. Either be good and abolish slavery or be evil and re-enslave everyone.

You have my attention.

They'd be pretty disappointed. "Shit, everyone's dead, we came all this way and didn't get any sacrifices."