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This is something my Persian teacher was very vocal about. She said they they had such a beautiful language and culture before the arrival of Arabs and Islam. She was very proud to be a strong, independent (old) Persian women, not one of those covered up Arab princess wives... At any rate, 40%...

With the right P.O.D, you could get something akin to the European Union, but across North America.

I think more importantly is that Judaism was and is largely still an ethnic religion. Of course there were and are converts, but the whole "God's Chosen Tribe" thing isn't exactly a way to get converts. If Moses (or whoever was writing about what he supposedly said) said that God should be...

Whooooooooooooooooooo boy, this sure is a blast from the past...

So I life lease is considered to be Tenure by Fee Tail? An important one indeed.

Right now I'm trying to get a better understanding of how property was managed throughout the pre-Industrial world. Here is a list I'm working on and was wondering if anyone knew of other forms of ownership and tribute. - Feudalism Open Land: Lands owned by liege lord assigned to families...

I picked Spain; British Imperialism focused a lot more on cooperating with local polities and had other industrial powers to contend with. Spain had more or less absolute control over her colonies and went unrivaled for a time. The scale of British control was greater, but the scope of...

With a PoD you deem necessary, the challenge is to have modern day "Russians" (who would by no means be called Russians) predominately Uralic speakers, rather than Indo-European Slavic speakers. Ethnolinguistic "Oblasts" of Indo-European and Altaic speakers allowed ITTL.

Perhaps now, but historically I think it had more of a distinction as the tongue of the rowdy mountaineers. When Aragon conquered Catalonia, they adopted Catalan as their official language, which is the point where Aragonese began to diminish.

I picked English without the Normans, It would have been interesting to see a more heavily Norse influenced Anglo-Saxon, rather than it being completely assimilated by a Northern Germanic language.

Lugdunum. Duh.

It was simply the shape of the formations. ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ The corners are the least pointy. Nothing to do with lapse in morale or command.

I would think there were more crossbows than firearms in Western European professional pike units until halfway through the sixteenth century. EDIT: On Wikipedia, taken from the "Book of the Crossbow" by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey 1995: "While the military crossbow had largely been supplanted by...

My thoughts are that phalanxes would be at a greater risk of breaking due to their longer weapons being unwieldy if cohesion was strained and are extremely weak against light infantry. Renaissance pikes led to more mobile formations and tactics.

Indeed, though I was always curious as to the use of crossbows in such formations while firearms were on the rise but I haven't found anything substantial.

I don't know too much about phalanxes, but the Landsknecht pike blocks were led by Doppelsoldners, men in full plate armed with zweihanders and paid twice as much. Their job was to cut the heads off of enemy pikes. I would imagine cohesion would be strained if this soldier was killed or lacking...

I wish I could have laughed, it would have made the situation better.. "Skraland" I imagine is what you derived from the Norse term for Inuits, Skraelings. This wasn't a very nice term and I can hardly imagine an entire nation named after it.

This was probably my most serious attempt at a timeline. I never could finish any.

Japan engaged in many centuries of endemic warfare, probably on account of the Bakufu military government. While the Yuan dynasty was the root of Japanese isolationism, Japanese closedness had it's roots in the ninth century when the court stopped importing Chinese influence wholesale as a...

India has much the same lack of internal geographic barriers, and it is for this reason that none of the petty Rajas could establish imperial dominance over their neighbors for too long before succumbing to that exact fate. Of course there were sultanates in the North after the Turks brought...