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Well yes, all conquest is conquest, that seems to simple a point to even dispute. But I'm just saying that the Russians already came into a system where most of what I described already existed, and where the Siberian peoples were already in yasak-paying arrangements with outsiders. The Russians...

In Western Siberia, the Russians signed them up for government service and paid them salaries, just like Russian service class people. They also kept the tax levels at the same levels as they were when collected by the Taibughins/Shaybanids, or lower. They primarily fought those of the Dzungars...

Only for Hebrew slaves (and this is similar to many "barbarian" slave codes of say Europe, or those of the ancient Middle East). Whereas non-Hebrew slaves were chattels and handed over as inherited property. It's all right there in the scripture, beyond all argument. Based on race, as you put...

Dreux is interesting because it has examples of both things happening. Hugenot Gendarmes physically charged through the Swiss several times and eventually dislodged them and then broke them (the Swiss having won their infantry combat earlier after the rest of the Catholic infantry ran away...

I won't say that there's no macroanalysis that could be more wrong, but wow. Cavalry is civilization-defining. Cavalry changes everything at all levels of organization. Cavalry gives a buffer of centuries to people who form raiding para-states over more advanced sedentary neighbours, and lets...

Oh lol. Okay. England, Hungary, France, Denmark, I'd guess. Scotland/Belgium/Hungary probably the group of death to me.

Rugby seems like a sport with lots of inertia in it so probably the favourites for both (that said, have some secret hopes for Canada). France didn't get good until later ittl.

Apologies, I'm not the same user. Don't think Canadian Goose has been back since forever. This (Soviet Lunar program) is a topic I do have interest in, but no actual expertise.

Maybe in Canada or Argentina, eventually, but I have Strong Doubts about the Caribbean as a starting point for them.

I suppose it's possible but the odds are really really stacked against Sweden at this point. They're outnumbered, low on supplies, and far from anywhere friendly. The Russians have learned a lot of lessons since Narva, won some victories, and are a much tougher opponent. A lots more things would...

That's a very mild way of saying "had staggering mortality rates and were largely worked to death before the indentures/transportation sentences were up (and I don't mean the really OTT 99-year indentures that eventually developed)." Disease resistance is really key to the demographic history here.

This is the most important point and while scenario-killing (and no fun to the OP), it should be restated in the interests of plausibility. If the Magyars were notably stronger than they were, they wouldn't be pushed into Hungary but instead defeat the pressure from the east and north (by the...

I think that these kinds of threads are a safe bit of banter, but if anyone in them ever wanted to be serious, the least that could be done would be links to examples of all the tropes mentioned in the post. Otherwise I wouldn't even know if the claim is remotely true.

And mainland Iberian kingdoms, and the entirety of the the Mediterranean Muslim world. Exactly the kind of agricultural cash-crop slavery that's implied by the word today, sometimes complete with what can easily look like a work-to-death approach in malarial conditions.

I really appreciate the brevity of the format and also the amount of information you managed to get into it. Well done.