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  1. firesoul

    AHC: Mississippi River valley supports China-sized civilisation

    Then there is the disparity of technology even the more advanced imperial cultures of south and central America where technologically thousands of years behind the old world. I dont see any reason a populous Mississippi valley civilisation would not have been similarly disadvantaged.
  2. firesoul

    A Blunted Sickle

    Race Theory The Nazi's had some very strange ideas about race and thought that Indians most especially North Indians where "Aryan", being descended form the eastern branch of the Aryan (IndoEuropean) migration. They where but beyond that like the rest of the Nazi race science its utter Druj...
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    Without World War One with the us still become a superpower

    I would suspect had there been no WWI, with the events of the summer of 1914 morphed into at worst just another Balkan Crisis, that there would have been no superpowers at all and that the Great Power system of the latter half of the 19th century would have continued. I suspect both the USA...
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    WI: Khosrau II captures/executes/assassinates Mohammed

    This is not actually true under Adeshir I and during the time of his Mobed e Mobed whos name escapes me this was nearest the case, but after that it was much more laid back and tolerant. I cite the Christian Nestorians who fled into the empire to escape persecution by Orthodox Romans. and the...
  5. firesoul

    AHC:Make canada larger than the United States

    have some of the colonies succeed and join Canada as I believe they might have considered OTL
  6. firesoul

    A bigger Byzantium

    Byazantium never had an empire The largest a Late Eastern Roman Empire was likely to get would be similar to that of the whole Roman empire at is peak with possible expansion some what further east as it has no great power blocking it to there. I suspect given the talent the Late Eastern Roman...
  7. firesoul

    Barbarian Genocide?

    Ancient cultures where quite capable of massacres and considerable levels of violence towards what we would consider non combatants amongst their enemies. However Genocide in the modern sense is I think unlikely, and even if attempted more likely to leave survivors.
  8. firesoul

    Barbarian Genocide?

    Genocide in the modern sense is not a policy which would work in an ancient setting, or I think be contemplated, never mind its ethical issues, it would be far more likely that troublesome tribes would at worst have their leadership removed and possibly be either enslaved en mass or translocated...
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