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- Rio Muni, Bioko, and Annabon as seperate countries rather than a united Equatorial Guinea - Tanganyika and Zanzibar as seperate countries - Western Sahara as an independent country - Somaliland, from British Somaliland, as a country separate from Somalia - Bantustans as independent...

In 1936, American journalist Edgar Snow travelled to the base of the fledgling Chinese Communist Party in Yan'an, Shaanxi to speak with its charismatic leader, Mao Zedong. During his interview, Snow asked Mao about the issue of former Chinese territories, particularly those in the hands of the...

I've always been interested in an early push from the Mediterannean (Phoenicians/Carthaginians, but perhaps also Greeks or Romans) down the coast of Africa into Senegambia. Senegambia as part of the "known" world - What was stopping it? Imagine the colonies founded by Hanno flourishing into a...

None of the above, honestly. Discounting the Japanese invasion in modern times, I think the only groups capable to conquering China are nomadic groups from the north. That leaves only Mongolic, Tungusic, and Turkic peoples (and possibly some Siberian peoples from further afield if they push into...

The Persians / Iranians have always been good at building land-based empires, but I'd like to see them go overseas. Persian Zanzibar. Persian Sofala. Persian Socotra. Persian Pondicherry. Persian Bengal. Persian Maldives. Southeast Asia? The Mediterranean? Australia? What's stopping them...

Peranakans in SE Asia, Dungans in Central Asia, Scotch-Irish in the Appalachians...

Your definition of an ethnic group is not only rigid but also inconsistent. Within the Han Chinese, for example, Cantonese, Hakka, and Shanghainese speak languages that are mutually unintelligible, yet, as we both agree, they still constitute a single ethnic group. This is in contrast to...

Um... If that's so, it just means you're reading into things too much, because there's nothing aggressive in my wording. Yes, I'm aware that there's plenty of indigenous DNA in modern Caribbean populations, and also that modern Caribbean cultures maintain Taino influences. By your own words...

It's not the only successful genocide. What about the Taino? How about the Conestogas, the last of which were also murdered in cold blood? A lot of indigenous peoples in the Americas, the Pacific, and Siberia were wiped out in modern times.

Is there any possibility that the British might revert the name of the island back to its Taino name, Borinquen or Boriken?

The problem is that pre-modern Europe doesn't have much to offer India.

What's the demographic make-up of this Formosa? Aboriginals? Aboriginal-Spanish mestizos? Chinese migrants? Filipino migrants? A little bit of everything?

The thread title immediately made me think Native Americans, in which case the Mayan Itza of Peten, the Inca enclave of Vilcabamba, the rebellions of Tupac Amaru II and Tupac Katari, the Pueblo rebellion of Popay in New Mexico, and the Miskito Kingdom are all possibilities, but since the thread...

The only way is to get seafaring Celts to cross the North Sea and make lasting settlements. The Celts reached Iceland in small numbers before the Norse, and there are plenty of legends suggesting the Celts did it, but no evidence.

I always thought so, but it's hard to find any sources.

The Cham dominated central Vietnam from the beginning of the 1st millennium CE until the 19th century. Nowadays, however, while the ethnic Kinh Vietnamese population in Vietnam alone numbers up to a staggering 82 million, the entire population of ethnic Chams in the world is only 400,000, less...

They weren't really diaspora communities because, as someone else said, they didn't share an ethnic consciousness. I do remember, however, reading that Tocharian women worked as waitresses and hostesses and prostitutes in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty. If this is true, I would imagine that...

This assumes that the Slavs were the predominant population, when it's actually more likely that they, too, were a small group of conquerers over a long-established agrarian population in the southeastern Europe - Thracians, Illyrians, or Dacians, perhaps. The Slavs were hardly given any...

They were. They spread to the Ferghana Valley and founded the Kushan Empire there. They also had communities in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty. It didn't preserve them as a distinct people.

The Russian population growth rate is already pretty astounding as it is. The Slavs went from being a marginal tribe that was barely worth mentioning in Roman times to being a language family with hundreds of millions of speakers. They spread all the way from Moscow to Vladivostok and...