Recent content by Zwide

People misunderstand race in North Africa. Places like Morocco are extremely diverse genetically and phenotypically. You have some people who look like Southern Europeans, some who look like black Africans, and then millions in the middle who don't fit into any racial category but clearly look...

Kongo would have had a tough time. A lot of their elites (along with specific tribes) basically went crazy with the slave trade. Creating a situation where random groups where enslaving other random groups and receiving wealth beyond their previous imaginations. It could have remained...

Kalapani is bullshit and didn't stop Indians from trading with Southeast Asia/East Asia for thousands of years. There's a reason why parts of SEA are Hindu and huge parts of Asia in general are Buddhist.

Wait, the Achaemenids weren't Zoroastrians? What religion did they follow then?

Butterflying colonialism is such an enormous POD that finding a "likely possibility" is almost impossible. A Mesoamerica without colonialism could have been an enlightened place with a high standard of living, much better than OTL Central America. It also could have turned into warmongering...

This isn't a very good question, the reality is that we have no idea how history would have gone without colonialism, this is a POD so huge that the world would be completely unrecognizable. It's possible that it would be some kind of equitable utopia, and it's also possible that it could be a...

What would they get out of doing this? I don't know much about the Maghreb in this time period, but from I gather it would be like trying to conquer the Paleo Siberian people who inhabited Russia at the time.

I'm sure that there was an element of "us vs. them" between the Aryans and the indigenous peoples of India, but again, the issue that we run into is that these are highly amorphous groups who may themselves have had significant overlap. John Keay in "The History of India" posits that the Aryans...

The problem with this is that the verses in the Rigveda (where most of the supposed Aryan vs Dravidian war are attested to) are highly metaphorical. Many parts of the Rigveda discuss the victories of Indra (the chief war god in Vedic Hinduism) over the "Dasyus". According to some...

The thing to remember is that the Indo-European migrations were more a process of osmosis than they were an invasion of some kind. It's also important to understand that the "Dravidian civilization" was never a monolith -- at best it's a catch-all term for the pre-Aryan inhabitants of India...

I don't know if Balkanization would help, South India was pretty balkanized historically. With the exception of the Vijayanagar empire (which was much more insular than the Cholas), there was at minimum some kind of a dispute between the Tamil country and modern-day Karnataka. In these...

From what I gather, South Indian seafaring dynasties were mostly concerned with securing the trade with Southeast Asia and China. This was a recurring trend that began in ancient times. Brahmins were settling Indonesia and even Vietnam during the Gupta period (300-500 C.E). Many early medieval...

The real question is why your "observations" seem to be little more than you making excuse after excuse for a group/ideology that has committed some of the worst atrocities in modern history. You verbatim said that white nationalists were not a threat, that the HBD crowd isn't racist, and that...

Instead of fleeing to PM's, I'd rather discuss this here. You made those points, defended those white supremacists, and tried to whitewash HBD (pun not intended). That's why I called you out. I think the forum deserves to hear your rationale behind making those points, don't you? Those are...

To be fair, there are plenty of threads of about certain language families or ethnicities ending up in different places where they did OTL. This makes sense, as language families and ethnicities are an actual thing. Race, however, is not. Imagine if I made one thread per week asking how "we...