The 'concern' over the uitlanders was just a pretext to invade and seize the gold and diamond mines directly. The Brits were willing to leave the Boers alone after the first Boer War, because they didn't have anything the British wanted, I guarantee you that if the British knew what was under...
Could the gold deposits in Northern Sweden and in Finland have been mined around the year 1700? I'm finding it difficult finding what the geological nature of the deposits are, like the depth or type of ore. Plz help.
Not necessarily, the study describes range of ideal lignin content (11% being the best), with a bit of experimentation you could just time the immersion process, no need to be super precise to get results.
The heat pressing seems to use steam rollers (clothesiron?) and the vikings used to...
Yeah I was just thinking the same thing, unstoppable timber-clad galleys would be awesome, though I don't know how well a pre-industrial, pre-scientific revolution tech base would be able to do. The process is pretty low-tech, but you need to know how to produce sodium hydroxide and sulfite in...
Does anyone have any links/screenshots/book recommendations on the finances of the Swedish Empire during it's Great Power period? In particular I'm looking for info on their German and Baltic possessions, under the Wittelsbach's. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
Society and warfare are pretty easy to surmise, and as for political arrangement the continuation and further sophistication of tribal kingships seems most plausible. What doesn't come to mind is the unifying element that keeps the Germans settled and peaceful enough to make their civilization...
Perhaps I should clarify what I mean by 'civilization'; What customs and social technologies might a non-christian, non-Romanized Germanic society develop that leads to them building and living in their own cities without slaughtering one another over successive generations? What justifications...
I'm trying to brainstorm what an indigenous German civilization would look like without the introduction of Christianity, or conquest by Rome. Latin or Greek influences are acceptable, but the origin of the civilization can't be forced from outside powers or copied wholesale. Any ideas what such...
If the US gets involved in this Alt-WW2, then maybe. Otherwise I think it unlikely that the US would declare war without a clear cases-beli, though perhaps I am underestimating the depravity of mid-century American foreign policy.
This would have probably been the outcome of a successful Third Reich vs. America cold war. The FDR administration was pretty much socialist, and all those communist refugees from Europe probably would end up turning the USA Red(maybe just Pink) by the 70's.
If Stalin were to suddenly die sometime after the start of WW2 but before 1941 would the Soviet Union have degenerated into civil war? I have no idea what the factions of power blocs of the Soviet regime of the time were like, other than everything revolved around The Boss, so if he died would...