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the ecological disaster scenario seems probable, and is confirmed by archeological finds, but it still does not explain why the Mayan civilisation just collapsed like that i mean cultures in so many places in the world managed to survive starvation and lack of resources, its was never easy, but...

Must someone "get" the Rhineland, couldnt it become a republic or federation of some sort, with relative autonomy, even if with puppet gowerment?

not necesarily, a large military yes, but the actual fighting of eventual wars should not have much to do with the maintainance of the state of terror, wars are external politics, terror in this case is internal politics in fact the organs assigned to maintanance of terror could be separate and...

the legalised, institutionalised, rule of fear a system in which those rule that are able to cause the most fear in some way this can be a organic progression of one of the basic foundations of civilization - extortion and pacification trough threat and terror but this would go beyond simple...

so in an alternate WWI Central powers are victorious, most of Belgium is annexed and hundreds of thousands of Belgians, including most of the military command, the royal family, etc, flee to parts of Congo still under Belgian control what could be expected? and how would history remember the...

in OT the Mongol invasion of Japan failed mainly due to bad weather, later known as the Kamikaze, the divine wind so what if no divine wind? and more generally, WI the Mongols take Japan?

in potential combination with Croats, Serbs and Ukranians to form a pan-slavenic commonwealth

so assuming the Magyars somehow dont get to Hungary, who does that leave dominating parts of that area? Croats?, Polaks?, Austrians? Chzeks maybe?

that is the actual point that you are missing you base this answer on statistical data showing that in the control population, living in a patriarchal society, the majority of physical abuse in heterosexual relationships is done by the male partner this is obviously true, as it can be said to...

the whole of the Balkan is very much "turkified", or at least as much as you could say India is "anglicanized" probably more so just look at all the turkish words, customs, coffee, architecture, mentality, music, food ...etc... obviously much of the Ottoman influence was rejected violently...

it is not a question of weather women are as bad or better or worse then men a woman is equally capable of acts of violence as any man, simply because a woman is equally a human being as any man is all this data shows is that in patriarchal societies, within typical heterosexual relationships...

have you ever seen a midle aged pesant woman? or a female factory worker? or have you ever seen a woman work a kitchen axe on a side of pig? i mean i know women who, if properly trained, could break your neck with one arm they are mostly nice working class women who spent their whole lives in...

it is possible that a hipotetical matriarchal society, not simply a matrilinear culture, but a culture where the dirigent group is by default female, and a society of some size, would be traditionally less "violent" in terms of pronenes to agressive behaviour and armed conquest, but would...

since it was occupied by the Soviets in 1945 it would make sense it becomes a Soviet ally right next to the Mongolian Peoples Republic, if Mao is less successful in the CCW this would not mean so much "two Chinas" as much as simply one Koumintang China and a big Soviet union with tens of...

south and mezo American tribes did domesticate herbivores this does not change much, unless the animals are large enough to be ridden if there was a domesticated or semi domesticated animal that was large enough to carry a human and/or some cargo over large distances, the result could be called...

with any number of PODs after 1900 get the Soviet Union to become as close as possible to a socialist/technocratic dictatorship obviously it still keeps practically all communist and socialist ideas, but the idea is that from the beginning the revolutionary movement is more progressive and...

this is not so improbable Hitler was at first a socialist, fotographs of him have been found, where he is seen attending hard line communist rallies what is needed is that he does not get involved with any ultra-nationalist group, and develops that crazy worldview of his under the influence of...

WI the ecology and enviromentalism movements fail before the end of the 1970is, and all their OTL achievements are lost?

you are right i was wrong thank you i do tend to shit it sometimes, and apreciate when it is pointed out to me still, the "african" features amongst parts of Italian, and some south European populations, should be considered the result of contact with invading Saracen and Berber peoples there...

not necesarily would there alvais be someone to "stood up for the rights of thier people" numerous people identified with Yugoslavia more than their tribal ancestry and religious denomination if right then in 1971 the party didnt crack down so hard on the students, and Tito helped put some...