I've been playing around with an idea where West Africans (probably in the Senegambia area) manage to create a horse breed heavily resistant to sleeping sickness, African Horse Sickness, and other tropical diseases that also doesn't shrink in size and can breed at an average clip. I remember a...
Hmm. Russia has never been known for treating its people all that well, and as I've dug deeper into Russian history and seen how many European nations did proportionately more with significantly less, I wonder if the empire actually ended up hobbling Russia's development by staving off the need...
Okay, so this is something I've read about wrt Imperial Russia and the Soviet Unio and in both polities there seems to have been this bias in developing non-Russian areas instead of Russia. Like the Brest-Litovsk treaty is noted to have severed the most valuable areas of the empire from Russia...
"Russia" in this case is basically the border of modern day Russia, including Crimea. The added on parts are the Donestk and Kazakhstan. I'm aware that getting back at least Ukraine and Belarus would be a priority whether the Reds or Whites won, but let's say they decide to go intensive...
I guess my thinking is that Germany's borders weren't anywhere near what they wanted them to be even wrt WW1, but they still managed to briefly create a massive war machine that rapidly knocked out multiple large European nations and had the Soviet Union on the backfoot for a while. My question...
What I mean is let's say that after the Bolsheviks decisively win the Russian Civil War, they content themselves with the borders of modern day Russia and Kazakhstan with the addition of Crimea and the Donestk so that the Sea of Azov becomes a Russian lake and there's a natural land bridge to...
Yeah, some of the posts on this forum and r/imaginarymaps on Reddit are a little *ahem* far right-wing leaning in their effect if not their intent. Those earn a sideeye from me.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that at least in Sub-Saharan Africa, "elite" ethnic groups oftentimes...
Best thing would be for the Khoisan (really the Khoi-Khoi and San peoples) to have a start on agriculture and somehow get a Mediterranean crop package that would allow them to more extensively settle the Cape region and increase their population densities so that when the Dutch come, there's...
Environment: Interesting, that could have huge butterflies depending on how fast the spread is, and perhaps lead to a Bantu Migration that reaches to the Cape instead of halting at the Orange River, except instead of being farmers they might be nomadic horse riders that either absorb the...
Let's say that around 300 BCE a pony-like horse breed is developed near the eastern bend of the inner Niger Delta by Mande chieftains that is highly resistant to sleeping sickness and other tropical horse-killing diseases as a result of mixing Barbary horses with local Sahel ponies (yes, I'm...
Great analysis. I agree that Russia longterm might still have NATO concerns that might morph into another regime change war, but on the other hand, with no Crimea to steal, perhaps Ukraine doesn't have a recent reason to be so wary of Russia. Or maybe goes for the rest of the Azov Sea coast so...
With the Russo-Ukrainian War ongoing, I've been wondering how much Crimea is responsible for it.
Let's say that Russia grabs Crimea right before or during the chaos of the Soviet Union and this move is largely seen as legal by the international community because it's technically all happening...
You're correct in my premise, West Africa for sure would be transformed but I was unsure of whether horses could physiologically survive at the Equator given that they seem to be absent in places like Southern India, Southeast Asia, etc. But that question has been answered. To my knowledge...
Yeah, I can see that there would be a demand for horses, my question is more like can horses even physiologically survive that far into Africa? Horses seem to do poorly in the tropics in general compared to bovines, even without sleeping sickness and I'm not sure why.
Let's say that around 300 BCE a pony-like horse breed is developed that is highly resistant to sleeping sickness by Wolof chieftains as a result of mixing Barbary horses with local Sahel ponies (yes, I'm aware that this was done IOTL with no sleeping sickness immune horses resulting) due to a...