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To keep Scania, the Sund Toll would have had to be either abolished or drastically reduced, at least waived for the great powers such as England and The Netherlands. OTL it was in their interest for Denmark and Sweden to control seperate parts of Øresund. That's also why an outright annexation...

Keep in mind though, that the Scandinavian countries have been at war with eachother for centuries, the wars claiming untold numbers of lives; people that might well have lived and created a larger population. I'd like to see how big England's population would be, if it had consisted of two or...

Yeah...post 1648 = ASB. Having said that.... If the Three Kingdoms had stayed together (= If Christian II hadn't butchered the Swedish nobility, the remnants of which then united behind the upstart Vasa), and Scandinavia been truly united, this construction could have been a challenge to the...

*thumbs up* Though Hitler was a Nazi, not a Fascist. There are extremely important differences between the two, one of them being that Fascism isn't inherently racist.

Communism and Nazism are both evil, inhumane ideologies. And although I agree that Hitler-shirts are ASB, Che-, USSR-, KGB-, etc, ought to be as well. When push comes to shove, Stalin and Mao have more lives on their consciences than Hitler does - and descriptions on the former range from...

I have to admit I had not heard of Brownian motion, so I had to google it...and if Wikipedia's article on it is remotely accurate...then I still don't see how it prevents the birth of Jesus. I'm not being stubborn, I simply don't understand. We agree that the POD will have far-reaching...

Heh...I read this headline and thought "Russia attacks Japan".

I'm still trying to figure out why events that changed Greek philosophy would mean that Jesus, John the Baptist, or Peter were never born? If you believe that this POD butterflies away Christianity, then it'd be a better idea to explain how this would've influenced Jesus so that Christianity...

But TOTALLY unrelated to Jewish culture, society and religion, and that was the point. So....basically we can't say anything about anything, because the POD might change everything. And where does that leave us? Furthermore: To bluntly say that a change in Greek philosophy alone, hundreds of...

No one's mentioned divine intervention :) Again: If Christianity had emerged from OTL Greek thought, your point would've been true (and mine false). However, it didn't. Christianity started out as a Jewish sect basing itself on an, in comparison to contemporary Judaism, alternate view of the...

What you're forgetting, is that neither Christianity, nor islam, is a product of Greek thought. Christianity came out of Judaism, and islam is the product of an Arabic merchant going "Heeey....I can found a religion too!" Though Christianity has certainly been INFLUENCED by Greek thought, it...

ASB without a seriously early, and far-reaching, POD. Hitler's "Russophobia" (I HATE with a passion the abuse of the "-phobia"-suffix that has become rampant everywhere, btw) was based on ideas of the racial inferiority of the eastern peoples. That's also why the Nazis didn't take advantage of a...

Point taken....sheesh I should really start going to bed earlier :S Post deleted.

If so, then I apologize :( I didn't see anything in the OP on it

Uhh...confrontational, are we? Exodus DOES have some mythological elements. However, one should not make the mistake of saying "mythological = didn't happen". There is insufficient evidence to support such a wide statement. In fact, there ARE circumstantial evidences of an influx into Cana'an -...

Joseph was by no means a typical Egyptian name...and I don't remember any prominent figure in the Exodus called "Joseph" either, btw?

Yes, because those that have dedicated their lives to working with these matters don't know the first thing about them, or try to deceive us because they're just that evil! :rolleyes: Everyone please take a step back. There. Now: No. There is no conclusive evidence to YHWH having a consort or...

Agreed - this thread seems more like an attempt at flamebaiting.... Btw, just for fairness sake, there are also "several scholars" who disagrees with the opinions of "your" "several scholars". That's the beauty of ancient history. Not a lot of it is set in stone (pun very much intended :D )

Point taken, as of a couple of decades post-WW2. Post WW1 was most definitely a Germanscrew, even if it kept the country united. My point, though, is that history is sometimes decided by the slightest of details. - What if "Adolf Hitler" had been just another nameless casualty of WW1? - What...

But it is actually quite likely! Cortez was EXTREMELY lucky that his adventure into Mexico ended the way it did, as well as the Aztecs grossly underestimating the Spanish. It could very easily have gone south.