Recent content by Goliath

In the midst of cleaning out a few things, I found some rough sketches I'd done a while ago of US election paralleling elections in a few other countries. Most "X as Y" election maps have to overcome the hurdle of very different electoral systems, but in this case all of the countries involved...

Very good points all around (especially that 1) Anatolian farmers themselves were a mixed population, and 2) they continued to mix with other people living in Europe) but the scale of population turnover still seems suggestive to me of at least some regional linguistics groups in Neolithic...

Very very cool, and seems reasonable - I would love to see more of this period featured in Alternate History, what with all of the archaeogenetic evidence coming out in the last few years giving us a clearer picture of what was going on. For example, I used to assume that the expansion of the...

Very cool. Always a fan of Asia/Europe reversed worlds. It sounds like this German *Qing Empire is more *Buddhist than OTL's Qing? What happened to the Romans? If I understand correctly, you think that religious syncretism-as-such is most common when it is the "philosophy/theology" of one...

Thanks! Always great to see your works and be inspired by them. China, while big on a map and certainly an international player, is nowhere near as dominant (or technologically ahead of the game) as OTL, and is generally less urban (making it more equivalent to a powerful kingdom in India...

Planet Jambudvipa (or, a 'Puranic' World): A fantasy world inspired by the Hindu Puranas: this is 50% a ten-year overdue sequel to a fantastic map that B. Munro made for me, and 50% a love-letter to India's history and culture, at a time when, as ever, the future of India is uncertain.

Thank you! I answered a bunch of questions about this world in the comments here.

A quick thing I whipped up: Looking back, historians view the 21st Century as an age of revolution and government reform, in which political reality caught up with demographic, social, and technological changes. Though democracy was never faced with any serious ideological alternatives after...

“While political polarization a long history in this country, in retrospect, historians variously point to the 2016 or 2020 election as the year in which erstwhile political polarization over social issues transformed into social polarization over political issues. Consensus over the issues of...

I love this idea. So by 2020 the Mormon “Caliphate” is in its golden age?

Mostly an exercise in flag design, but loosely a redo of this.

Needs more quality snark and references.

New Sudan: In this world, the independence of Sudan was delayed two years until 1957 as the British entered prolonged negotiations with southern Sudanese political leaders over whether to include the south provinces in a united, independent Sudan. Although negotiations ultimately fell flat...

Pop that on Wikipedia over here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Guinean_legislative_election You’re doing great work.

B_Munro would know, having also done a cover of that book: https://www.deviantart.com/quantumbranching/art/Times-Numberless-500736930