Recent content by Minchandre

Something really cool happened with the Hellenes in Bactria. They encountered Buddhism, and heavily syncretized it with Stoicism; the result, called Greco-Buddhism, proved quite popular and outlasted the Indo-Greek kingdoms by a few centuries.

It could be more if there was a reason to be there. The Kamchatka Peninsula itself has a nice little valley with a much more temperate climate than you'd expect and an area of several thousand square kilometers of flat, somewhat arable land. The cold conditions make a relatively short growing...

How did New England become so Catholic? Also, is there's a greater monetary union using Pounds Sterling, or is it just NE?

That's an OTL map. It might be nice to have maps of the first and second Saudi states nearby for context?

"What if I25...but, a state?"

So...if we're playing the wetland game, there are other spots. The Nile Delta should be wetlands, as should the western end of the Persian Gulf. Basra was a seaport when it was founded in the 7th Century, and there is an extensive region of brackish wetlands extending over 200km inland from...

I'm sure there's other things here, but notably the UK claimed and in practice governed much of what is now the US states of Washington and Oregon.

I stand corrected.

Is there a reasons why it's "Empire of the French" instead of "French Empire"? OTL, it was only ever "l'Empire français", and in the 19th Century, "[Monarch] of the [People]" was long out of fashion. "King of the Belgians" is a bit of an anomaly and occurred for specific historical reasons that...

Well, Berg is German, not Netherlandish.

What level of inter-species mixing is going on? I don't just mean interbreeding, but general living together. Like, those North African spots seem ripe for Neanderthal/"Modern human" mixed societies, or the Silk Road and the Indo-Gangetic plain for Neanderthal/Denisovan mixing.

One of those "Portugal is not a small country!" things?

This would make more sense with 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland + 6 counties in Eritrea, thus adding to the 32 counties of a united Ireland. This way you have 38 counties, which is just too many.

No seats. The 1866 election happened before many Southern states were "fully readmitted"; representatives from several would be readmitted before the 1868 election (I don't know how these people were selected). By the 1868 election, only Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi still weren't allowed...

I wonder if you could get something like in the United States. The Federal Circuit Court system was established in 1789, which predates Washington DC. Maybe instead of establishing DC, it could be decided that the Federal government could also travel between locations, to ensure equality...