This is where the minefield surrounding this kind of crap comes about. :rolleyes:
Which Belgian colonies led it to be the second country to industrialize? It wasn't even an independent country when it experienced its take-off, and its previous owner (Austria) had no serious colonial empire you...
That was the elite view, but this is an America very different from what you might imagine by that elite view. Large sections of the country are still densely inhabited by independent yeoman farmers who own their own land, run their own local governments, and have distant relationships with the...
Being no expert on the matter, but having just read by Britain After Rome, I get the impression that the Romano-Britons having that unity is actually a pretty big challenge. Fleming gives the impression that Roman Britain utterly collapsed, almost on its own, in the aftermath of Roman withdraw...
People reconciled and adapted, for the most part. A lot of Federalists were ex-Tories or their descendants. A lot of Democratic-Republicans were ex-antifederalists or their descendants.
You need to give people a reason to not reconcile and that's actually kind of hard to do.
They might. Western Asia Minor was the part of the Empire that remained very rich and well developed longer than the rest. In the early-middle 13th century is exactly when that area was probably reaching its peak of development, prior to the decline under Palaiologoi neglect in the later part of...
The Federalist party was, for all intents and purposes, dead by the time of Andrew Jackson. The split between the Whigs and the Democrats that occurred during/after Jackson's term was purely a split within the Democratic party (between so-called National Republicans and the rest of the...
...and then the killing started...
We already know how successful communist revolutions end up looking. Germany will emerge after several decades of dictatorship demographically and economically poorer (although it would be really difficult for even a communist Germany to out-do the damage...
The problem you're going to run into is that there was no Saxon Royal Family. An entire second dimension to the Saxo-Frankish wars that is being missed here was that Old Saxony was a proto-republican polity with (at least the way it is described in the written histories) an allergy against...
I think there is a vast bulk of difference between, "These factors make farming also uncertain", and, "These factors make farming just as uncertain", as claims.
Just as an aside, never mistake people telling you that they are rational and scientific for them actually being rational and scientific. RationalWiki isn't particularly moreso than many other places. They're more interested in being perceived as correct than actually being so.