Search results

I'm not sure I agree with the bolded part. Boxing existed as a sport since Greek times. Gladiatorial contests mimicked warfare - armor, military style weaponry, sometimes staged "battles". They were also as much theatre as actual combat, and fights to the death were actually the exception...

With white-tailed deer? Deer are much smaller and lighter than cattle or horses. Even if the Maya put two and two together in 200 years and came up with the idea of hitching wheeled vehicles to deer, this would be like hitching wagons to llamas. They just aren't big and strong enough. Also...

You'd have to have some pretty major geological/geographic/evolutionary divergences to keep the Americas human-free until the modern era, cool as that could be with Mammoths and Glyptodonts still mucking about. Australia would be just about as hard. As noted, there could be some more...

That is quite true. The OP was about "MesoAmerica" which I took to mean the high civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Certainly a strain of fully domesticated deer could be attractive to European settlers, with their long history of animal husbandry and breeding. Over the next...

Probably no a whole lot, actually. We are talking the post-classic. It's only going to be a few hundred years max until the Spanish show up and this just doesn't allow the time for deer domestication in a few Maya city states in Yucatan to significantly change MesoAmerican civilization

I chose Serbia, Germany, Russia. But that was before I noticed the "other opinion" option. I think Serbia should be considered the No. 1 instigator of the war but the since the poll options reflects that "winners write the history" that wasn't an option. My ideal choice would have been (1)...

How would Lincoln go on trial? If the SC declared this more expansive Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional Lincoln has two options: (1) more likely - withdraw it and come up with one that better fits the constitution, ie: OTL's proclamation, or (2) slightly less likely - ignore the...

I enjoyed the series, but thought it lost a little steam and focus in the later volumes

The predominant American Indian nations in Indian Territory before the civil war were the "Five Civilized Tribes" (Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) of the Southeast who were deported and sent west in the 1830's. To various extents they (and especially their elites) had...

And throughout the 1930's, France and Britain had ample military power to crush Hitler's revisionist moves... in the Rhineland, in Austria, and in Czechoslovakia, and for that matter in Poland. If you believe some historians, not only did the allies have a clear superiority over the rebuilding...

The failure of the Allies to invade Germany in 1939 is so closely linked to the Maginot Line that they can't really be separated. But that's mine. All of the other mistakes are just "blips" on a global war that the Allies clearly won regardless of the mistakes. A strong and forceful Allied...

This would be difficult but not impossible. The only Mesomerican writing system likely to be in a position to spread into the Southwest would a largely pictographic system equivalent to the Central Mexican (Aztec) system. Fat change getting Mayans with their fully developed written language up...

The I disagree with the whole concept and will leave this to others. In my opinion, almost all western empires have been "space filling" since Rome. They exist because because one advanced or powerful nation claims a territory and other advanced or powerful nations accept this claim. It is...

Of the listed ones I'd go with the Nazi German treatment of Ukrainian, and other occupied ("liberated") areas of Stalin's USSR. Had the Nazis not been Nazis they would have millions of loyal allies in the fight against Stalin's USSR. And they would have defeated and dismembered the USSR in two...

Because the other developed nations of the west recognized and (in general)respected these claims. In just the same way that the US, British/Canadian, French, Russian, and Spanish "space filling empires" in the Americas were recognized. The fact that these areas may not have been subdued or...

All of the standard Judeo-Christian "don'ts" during Christianity's formative period were pretty consistent with those of the secular societies around them. Don't kill, don't steal, etc. Slavery was an accepted practice, both economically and socially in all developed societies at the time so...

Oh well, I guess since these are two of my favorite HT books it was only natural that I conflate them into How Few Guns of the South Remain. Speaking of good Turtledove, I would probably consider Ruled Britannia his most inventive and best executed novel. It also deserves kudos because it...

If I remember correctly, it wasn't that simple. I may be confusing this with How Few Remain, but didn't the "liberal" Confederate leadership propose a very partial and gradual emancipation after the war to get British and French support, but then when the Riverton men sought to take over the...

Need to distinguish between the European and Pacific theatres. the USSR was not a US ally in the Japanese War (until the last few days, of course), so it was completely appropriate that the Soviets would intern any US aircraft or personnel that reached their territory. Base on what I've read...

We "Copenhagened" them once, why not again?