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First of all, we can't attribute the spread of new religions to persecution alone, as some have suggested above. Some new religions have spread through persecution. Other new religions have spread despite persecution. And we can't say that polytheistic religions are necessarily more tolerant...

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What is someone smuggles the Boll Weevil into the newly-independent Confederacy in the immediate aftermath of the war?

It's already four or five centuries, depending how you count these things, into the modern age.

A proper invasion is impossible. A smaller-scale raid might be possible, if the Germans organized commando units for it. Is there any way that commando raids could significantly affect, for example, the coal industry?

If the Taiping win, do they count?

It's unlikely that the Dacian kingdom of Burebista et al. matches the area settled by Dacian speakers or the area with typically Dacian material culture. And archaeology can only really delineate the last one.

Throne-and-altar conservatism, absolute monarchism, proto-fascism... As a general definition, I would suggest that leftists mostly think that equal relationships are generally better, while rightists mostly think that hierarchical relationships are generally better.

But the American traditions - Warren, Greene, Tucker, Lum, de Cleyre, and one could include Thoreau - were left. Warren, Tucker, and Lum certainly considered themselves socialists. Warren was involved in an Owenite community. Lum was involved in the Chicago labor movement. I think socialism in...

I think that's misleading. Both parties support major government intervention in the economy - including sweetheart deals for arms contractors, agribusiness, oil, intellectual property [as in theft], the banking and insurance rackets, etc. Both parties seem very right-wing to me. And the idea of...

I'm not an expert on Visigothic history, but I imagine a relatively small Gothic population, the recurring civil wars, and Byzantine invasions had a lot to do with the rise of Catholicism. Now the relative sizes of the Gothic populations are unknown, but the Visigoths are way over on the wrong...

What? Isn't that the opposite of anarchism? I mean the point is freedom through equality, equality through freedom. If you have two otherwise-similar societies, one ruled by a dictator, and one practicing something semi-democratic, the latter is likely to be closer to freedom and closer to equality.

It has existed before, so there ought to be some way for it to exist today. One of the roots of the hard left is in the abolitionist movement, and religion was one of the major motivators for the movement. Another of the roots of the hard left is in the socialist movements on both sides of the...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_plague_pandemic Hit San Francisco and went inland in 1900.

The fact that one stands out as a persecutor [in matters of religion], and the other stands out as being relatively tolerant, does matter. And I don't trust your sources here and I do wonder what you are trying to do. There's no real evidence to suggest that Theodoric persecuted anyone over...

April is mud season. No invasion was practical before May, at the earliest.

It's under thread tools, near the top right of the page.

It's a plague. It's not going to care if its victims are Italian or East Roman or Persian. It's going to hit just about everyone, although it's going to hit cities harder than villages. And because the mediterranean is more urbanized than the north, yes, it probably affected the mediterranean...

The Wilson administration got way too close. That could easily have happened in the Cold War and it could easily happen again, or worse.

Or you could have 'white flight,' the assassination of civil rights organizers, a so-called 'war on crime' involving massive crackdowns on minority communities and racial profiling at the same time as hands-off policies in white communities, the appointment of a segregationist like Rehnquist as...