You two are projecting modern understanding of twin births on ancient people. We know that they did not think Jesus being the Son of God means a twin of his would also be Son of God: Thomas Dydimos was claimed by some to be a twin of Jesus, but he was never said to be anything other than human...
How is that ASB? Have you not heard of Thomas Dydimos, whom some Christians have called the twin brother of Jesus?
It's absurdly silly to say "historical person has brother" is ASB either. It's a common POD.
No. The Meshe Stele mentions "omri melekh yisrael", Omri King of Israel.
The Tel Dan Stele, meanwhile, mentions Jehoram ben Ahab, King of Israel - whom the Bible mentions as one of the Omrides. The Tel Dan Stele also mentions a Ahaziah ben Joram of the House of David. These are clearly two...
Citation very much needed. There are no stele left by Omri himself, though there are steles that claim Omri existed as founder of the northern kingdom.
It's funny to see you claim Omri is a Davidide when not even the Bible claims such.
There is simply no archeological evidence for the Unified...
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Anyway, get this through your head: the Bible is not a historical document. There was no powerful unified Kingdom. While it does seem that a King David founded the Kingdom of Judah, that figure ruled over a very small kingdom in the hills of Judah, centered around...
There's almost contemporary evidence that David was a real ruler. He did not lead a great Unified Kingdom though, Jerusalem in this period remains extremely small, it wasn't the capital of a large, prosperous kingdom. This is attested by archeology.
So the historical David couldn't have...
I'm ever more skeptical of the notion that you need the scientific process to start an industrial revolution. Science is not necessary for most technological progress, which is obvious since there was much technological progress before the scientific method really took off. And the challenges of...
It worked in Malaysia, although admittedly India is of an altogether different scale.
Still, the British are likely to create some sort of princely states confederation to make running India cheaper (as they did in Malaysia) which would provide the institutional basis for an independant India.
Which is all entirely irrelevant to a question that already assumes that Napoléon exists. Alternate History is not a science, it's a literary genre and answering a question by ignoring its premise doesn't make you smart, it makes you annoying.
Very interesting! Just a couple of points:
- Hungary being the anti-nationalist side is odd, given how usually Austria want to maintain the Empire (necessarily a rejection of nationalism) while Hungary typically want to assert its own interests through nationalism
- The development of the USSR...
Your literalist devil would have failed reading comprehension then - in this context, "before me" is an expression meaning "in my sight".
Anyway, for all the monotheists' protests, the difference between monotheism and polytheism is often not so clear cut. What's the difference between say...
Considering how much change French has undergone since Old French I think a Norman French descended language in the British Isles would not be mutually intelligible with French by the modern day, so it would be its own language without question. A good modern analogue is Jerriais and...
Part of that is that Church authorities banned Christians from usury, although that enforcement of that was highly variable during the Middle Ages.
Another is that Jews were simply... better suited to that than to most other things.
Jewish boys, all of them, are mandated by religious laws to be...
Fascinating update! China looks like it might stave off western greed for a while longer, though I expect at some time this will stop working. China can't sustain an embargo if the western powers unite on the issue, as they did OTL.
It's fun seeing Britain starting to take a position against...
To be clear, Napoleon himself didn't say that, the sénateur who presented the law in the Senate did. It was a major part of the rhetoric surrounding the bill. To what extent Napoleon shared the sentiment is not clear, but he certainly used it.