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PeterEzgo reacted to EMT's post in the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west. with
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I think people are working the question backwards. The path of least resistance isn't about making Russia conform, it's also about... -
PeterEzgo reacted to Elfwine's post in the thread To What Extent is the “Competition Breeds Innovation” Argument True? with Like.
Competition can produce innovation, but the mere existence of competition does not produce innovation, in my understanding. You need...
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PeterEzgo reacted to Belisarius II's post in the thread How could the Oregon dispute have gone differently? with Like.
Why would the U.S. agree to a treaty where the border ran along the 49 Parallel from the western tip of Lake Superior but a few hundred...
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PeterEzgo reacted to Belisarius II's post in the thread How could the Oregon dispute have gone differently? with Like.
You just set it up yourself. The trading company didn't even try to keep American settlers out of the territory because there was a...
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PeterEzgo reacted to Belisarius II's post in the thread How could the Oregon dispute have gone differently? with Like.
What police powers? There was nothing there, just a trading company. The U.S. had an agreement that said it wasn't British territory...
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PeterEzgo reacted to Belisarius II's post in the thread How could the Oregon dispute have gone differently? with Like.
Except that the Americans who settled in Canada know they were in Canada. From at least 1825 Americans thought the border was the 49th...
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PeterEzgo reacted to Cryptic's post in the thread If C16th Castille/Aragon/Portugal can convert Iberia to Catholicism, could a religious French monarchy do the same in the Maghreb in C19th? with Like.
The 80% Muslim figure probably included a fair number of indigenous locals whose conversions to Islam were not that deep and who had...
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PeterEzgo reacted to Melvin Spivak's post in the thread If C16th Castille/Aragon/Portugal can convert Iberia to Catholicism, could a religious French monarchy do the same in the Maghreb in C19th? with Like.
I doubt it. The French territories in North Africa in addition to being 99% Muslim bordered countries that were 99% Muslim, if the...
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PeterEzgo reacted to TheKutKu's post in the thread If C16th Castille/Aragon/Portugal can convert Iberia to Catholicism, could a religious French monarchy do the same in the Maghreb in C19th? with Like.
People forget there was a significant settler element in the reconquista, any genetic map of iberia proves this to the day, it wasn't...
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PeterEzgo reacted to alexmilman's post in the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west. with Like.
Novgorodian Republic (of course, nobody called it “republic”) was a dead end. Yes, it conducted a lot of trade with Hanse but that trade...
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PeterEzgo reacted to Mitridates the Great's post in the thread AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west. with Like.
Correction: The "connections with the Hanseatic League" were limited to Novgorod being used as a sort of Hanseatic coaling station. A...