in my opinion, without Mao's war on intellectual and landlord, local landlord is likely to reestablish their dominance in local politics (even under communist government) and eventually strangle growth with local corruption and limiting poor advancement and entrepreneurship. making China more...
river land surrounded by desert / marginal land. This make it valuable enough that people 1) stop moving and become sedentary 2) willing to accept government capable to fight invader.
Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus and Yellow fill this criteria. civilization born not in fertile delta or...
any citizens gain number during his adulthood or when moving to that state/electoral district. when representative is needed a method (numbered ball inside drum / computer randomized / etc) is picked to gain list of dozens of number. non-existant and death number is removed. contact all people...
Is Kingdom rich enough for Habsburg to invade ? Is Kingdom to far and poor to be rejected by Habsburg ? did junior line local nobility ? did junior line related to neighbouring kingdom ? is any noble powerful enough to pull a Braganza ? is there any faction among local nobles ? did any previous...
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Re-read Skallagrim explanations above. MHC diversity is different among different human populations, the more homogenous more susceptible to disease.
Probably not. DNVP is for long time bigger than Nazi. They might win in another TL. Hugenberg as Chanchellor ? or alternatively some general might gain support from DNVP and gain dictatorial power. General Scleicher ?
because Weimar Republic...
Ah, Frederick is dead. Really want to see this develop, in many many other TL death and defeat of Prussia often have minimal result, lost of Silesia, and Great Power again in new generation. a World where Frederick death actually change Prussia future will be interesting.
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But it eradicate most of landlord and elite class. without it opened up China might be too tightly controlled by olygarchy and local potentate like Indonesia, Philippines or Brazil. making Deng opening up failed, and turn into bureaucratic morass and corruption that...
why does everybody hate Mao ? without Mao's Cultural Revolution there might be no modern China.
it very difficult for society to jump for 'feudal' to 'modern' because existence of 'landlord class' who control economy and government. monopoly of wealth (usually land) and...
Uh, i don't think Taoism well suited for that. Taoism goal is for Individual to advance through neidan or alchemy to become 'better' than other humans and become immortal. Such faith could very well go to nietzchean direction and accept difference of status due to different charactheristic of...
even if Chiang can successfully dealt with warlord, there no guarantee he can successfully dealt with landlords (who spread out in every village, and had enormous local power) or dealt with Industrial Magnate (who control considerable state income and can influence things). China might jump to...
with POD that early, neither Andrew Jackson or Nancy Pelosi will be born.
and 20-year term would change politics Massively, my guess is Presidency become Constitutional elected Monarch, with speaker of House take over many of its duties. Presidential signature will be mandatory and...
France-Germany were covered by Hyrcanian Forest during Roman times.
in Byzantine/middle age development of heavy plow/horse collar/northern variety of wheat increase population.
in 1800 Columbian Exchange and Agricultural Revolution increase population further.
meanwhile in...