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Blunt question: Have you tried Wikipedia and gone on to the sources in its article on Human sacrifice? Also, there appears to be some debate regarding human sacrifice in pre-buddhist Japan, with observations including the lack of written records regarding the religious practises at the time and...

Yes, not enough horses. Due to not enough people engaged in large scale horse-breeding. South Africa is, if memory serves and as the use of horses by the Boers and British imply, far enough south that the anti-horse insects/-diseases aren't an issue. Not that much later - the Dutch started...

I'd expect it to be easier to do before the 1950s, especially as long as this is in the before 1900 forum... Fast food of the kind "we" think of and high caloric snacks are pretty recent and for a lot of people and history most western diets weren't exactly meat-heavy either.

Why wouldn't they? I'm not sure if they really called it anything. I think some people have suggested that they should, or would eventually, have called it Bretland, but that is basically just translating the Latin name.

What is the next step up from insufferable? :)

Not to mention that the (settler) population of the Colony of New South Wales was something like 10 000 in 1810,

That makes sense, and is hard to tell for an outsider - it could have been merely that between Swedish and Danish.

My memory tells me, and thus I tell others, that I, at the age of ten or so, read the Dutch text in model train catalogue without realising that it was actually a foreign language until I reached the end. (I think I was just relieved there was a section where enough words looked sort of right...

OK, so I discovered this thread through the Kick and Ban Notices, but I feel I must highlight this: I eagerly, but possibly in vain, await an explanation of this lingusitic bombshell.

Perhaps, but it seems to me that you're putting the cart before the horse. We're not social democratic because we're hyper-individualistic, we're hyper-individualistic because we have been social democratic for decades/generations and because the theory/ideology of statist individualism was...

I think this may be the first time I've seen Sweden described as hyper-individualistic, especially before the rise of social democracy. (There is the concept of statist individualism, but that didn't become prominent until the 1960s or so.)

It suddenly struck me that, paradoxically, the samurai (by late Tokugawa or so) could have been made amenable to such "social democratic and welfarist policies". One of the big social-political-economic issues of Japan at the time was that the samurai class was in charge, but a lot of them were...

Perry and the U.S. weren't the only ones sniffing around the metaphorical gates of Japan, and you have not yet convinced me that Perry was personally instrumental in the process that lead to the Meiji restoration (ten years after his death) other than him being the guy who opened Japan and came...

I think Greece and Turkey may be a bit badly placed for Vietnam-expies if most of Europe is already communist, and from what little I know about the Greek resistance during WW2 the impression is that the communists were a major part of it and the main reason they didn't take over was that the...

I am not entirely convinced that communist France and Belgium would be all that much competent in decolonizing... (The phrasing in opening post implies the Pyrenees as another border, so presumably still whatever-you-define-Salazar-as Portugal.) On that note (on the parenthesis) Spain and...

You have not yet made the case that they didn't... The big difference that immediately springs to mind following the quoted statement is that kung fu movies weren't made for a persecuted minority audience but for one that was securely and comfortably the majority. (Then there is the overlapping...

But not quite too late to do things to whoever is sitting on the Silk Road and by-the-time-they-reach-the-Mediterranean overland spice trade routes that used to be one reason given for why people started looking for sea routes.

Doesn't Sweden and Denmark top the list of countries that have been at war with each other the most times? Like the Norse-Gaels?

Kyu Sakamoto And sort of ninja'd by neopeius...

Do you want a war with Britain and France (and Spain and Netherlands)? Because that is how you get a war with Britain and France (and Spain and Netherlands). The West Africa Squadron/Royal Anti-Slave Squadron was established well before much of West Africa was colonised, and at that point...