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People who don't seem to like the Ainu being considered a civilization probably haven't played the Civilization games. Civilizations in the game can be something specific like Rome or vague tribal groups like the Celts. And with mods, you can have elves, dinosaurs, aliens, or even Welsh as...

Yeah, I can't help but feel that arguing over the legitimacy of the Papacy or Byzantines is missing the point of the OP's prompt. While the Church preserved many Roman institutions in the West, the political realm still remained fractured into many tribes and later kingdoms.

Some of the names should be more "spread out", IMO. Whenever I look into various dynasties, it seems like more often than not someone will inherit their royal name from a grandfather or other ancestor, instead of directly from their father. So you would see Bernard, Robert, Bernard, Frederick...

The problem with those areas is that there are too many potential bases of power. As soon as some kingdom in, say, the Latin peninsula starts to get too powerful, other kingdoms in Egypt or Hellas will just squash them down. Same with the Gangetic plain. Any power based around the Ganges will...

You're right, but that still doesn't change the fact that this evolution was facilitated through violence. If Christianity had not gained Imperial backing, it wouldn't have been able to shut down "pagan" temples, ban "pagan" festivals, force heretical sects into exile, etc. A much wider...

What exactly makes a religion "weak" or "strong"? Christianity was absolutely mixed with ancient beliefs that formed from thousands of years of Jewish tradition, and as another poster pointed out, the very Greco-Roman philosophy that people were supposedly becoming disillusioned with. There were...

Just like France and Germany have been destined to be unified due to the similarity in terrain between them.

Indonesia was a massive hub of trade that people traveled from all across the world to reach. Japan was generally the backwater neighbor of China for most of its history until relatively recently. You're just taking recent developments and projecting them back into the past.

Such a wall already existed. There doesn't seem to be nearly as much information about it on the internet as the Great Wall does, though. That seems to be a recurring problem when it comes to a lot of Persian history.

Isn't that basically OTL?

You're right, it was about states' rights. States' rights to keep slavery legal. Every state's declaration of independence mentioned slavery, and a few outright said that the uncertain future of slavery in the Union was their motivation for leaving. When the Confederate constitution was drafted...

deviantArt page Although I've been on hiatus for a while now, I've still been actively working on various maps and scenarios. One of them has revolved around revisiting one of my older maps here and giving it a major overhaul. After far too long, I feel it's finally ready to post online and...

It's hard to give exact numbers when there are so many people who knowingly or unknowingly share that ancestry. I don't disagree that he would still be a very successful warlord, but this was all about whether or not he has millions of descendants, and whether he raped any of his hundreds of...

They are numerous enough to have the specific title Sayyid/Sayyida. Unfortunately, since they are all through Mohammed's daughter Fatima, some don't consider them to be "real" descendants, which is ridiculous. And if you have European ancestry, you very likely have Charlemagne somewhere in...

Millions of people today have a common ancestor who lived in that general region during that period, very likely to be the Great Khan himself. It isn't that surprising, considering how large numbers of people today are also descended from other historic figures like Mohammad or Charlemagne. I...

I think colonel was talking about both Khan and his immediate descendants, who collectively could have easily impregnated tens of thousands (which is why there's millions of his descendants alive today). Obviously if he's sterile, he can't have any sons who would go on to have countless...

Any more details behind the artificial lake in Yemen? Just how feasible would it be?

Absolutely beautiful map of a horrible world. Quietly throws inferior Draka WIP away

I've been having this comment saved to the backburner until I finally found both the original reference maps I used and the time to type this out. As best I can tell, the Siberian coast is just the result of the Miller projection used in the Vicky II map. It seems to distort the polar regions in...