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Wasn't phrenology and scientific racism a very big, peer reviewed, field in the XIXth and XXth century? Same with eugenics and lobotomy for depressive patients and "hysterical" women. Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme Upthread, I saw an argument against genocide saying it'd be...

I don't think I've ever been that drunk as to not tell apart a boy and a girl. That's some serious drunkenness level

Yeah exactly. What was the value of Morocco? Desert trade is already short circuited by Portuguese factories in Guinea, it's mostly shit land and it's full of angry Muslims. If I'm Portuguese and I want to go smash some Muslims I'd be better off going to India. Damn, even Mozambique is closer...

At times it really feels like Morocco was a red dot and the fidalgos a bunch of particularly violent cats. There was nothing of value to gain there, they just couldn't help themselves

Of course, it was just to say the PoD needed might not be as massive as one thinks. You don't need to change the Coran, just some interpretation and tradition, which is much simpler

As far as I remember, it's a bit of a sticking point. You do have many muslim traditions (Persia, Turkey...) which do let you have alcohol, and the prohibition is against being drunk. I'm not a muslim scholar, not even muslim, but I do know turkish muslims and I know they drink

That said, even without a full conquest, that's still a massive PoD. You would get a very friendly Morocco AND a surviving Portugal. I'm researching this exact thing for my podcast right now, and the death of Sebastian is, to me, intimately tied to the rise of the VoC. By keeping him alive...

Oh obviously. WAY easier to buy whatever from Congo. I was just saying, if they're getting a navy to protect a Congo takeover from the French, well, there's a big flaw in that plan

You might be seeing the same thing that happened after 1870 though. You might have some very right wing parties, but you don't wanna do anything that relates you to Germany. Indeed, one of the big opposition was the relationship to Germany with the right being way more aggressive. Might play out...

No of course, the question is more how much the Estado allowed foreigners in

So, I'm doing some light research for my podcast on the VoC and I see that Linschoten, writer of the Itinerario was posted in Goa for a few years. He was Dutch during a time if war of independence, which raises other questions, but he did meet other Dutchmen in the Indies. We also have records...

Unless there are some archives in some forgotten castle near Lisbon, or a memoir in some old chest buried in Cochin... Or more likely we'll find a weird wreck off the coast of Brazil

I think they'd start again, until they got it right. It's even not impossible that what you described happened before, and we only know about Dias because he came back. Same for Gama. Who knows if fleet tried the route between 1489 and 1498 but failed? It is after all very convenient that...

33% in a coalition is pretty good. It's what Labour, the main opposition party, git in the last UK election while Tories got 44%. I don't like Boris but wouldn't say he did a coup...

Do we know why? Seems like a lost opportunity for the USSR, especially as this coalition would have arrived entirely through democratic means.

You mean the democratic elections giving them a massive presence in the parliament?

The war was shorter but the reparations were punitive. On top of that, France went through a short Civil War after. But mostly, they had lost the region with most of the coal and steel. I'd need to find a source but I seem to remember TOV reparations were proportionally lower than the ones from...

Lots of Nazi propaganda in this thread (unwittingly of course). The TOV is vastly overestimated in all that. The first post war years were tough, but like for all other countries, France included. Around 1925, the US did a lot of investments in Germany which really helped the economy. If things...

I look at the Kings of France who had multiple official mistresses... Still the Church's eldest daughter and the Kings, lieutenant of God on Earth

Adding to that, the Upper Mekong doesn't lend itself well the navigation as it has rapids around Laos. So you can't quite reap the benefits of a standard big river. What the French did when they controlled Laos was build a railway around the rapids where they loaded up the boats. What is there...