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That's an ignorant remark, Afghanistan is EXTREMELY RICH in precious minerals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Afghanistan If Afghanistan's tribes can co-exist peacefully with each other, then Afghanistan's prosperity can be secured based on its mineral wealth alone. It WILL happen...

How can we get Afghanistan to be peaceful and prosperous?

East Asians have ALREADY colonised the Americas. Native Americans come from China: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/dna-study-traces-ancestry-of-native-americans-to-beijing/

Is it possible for the Moon to be the 51st US state? I think it is. Firstly, make sure that there is no Outer Space Treaty. This would make the colonisation of bodies in outer space (and, indeed, the colonisation of outer space itself) fair game for all countries. Then have the United States...

Signs don't count. Gotta be full-blown languages. Nope. Pictographic.

How can pictographic writing systems become the norm in the world today?

Its evilness.

Build an artificial wall that closes the Strait of Gibraltar.

No kidding! A nuclear (and politically moderate) Iran would be the undisputed hegemon of the Middle East and Central Asia, in my estimation.

What if Iran not only gained nuclear weapons before its Islamic Revolution in 1979 but also kept those nuclear weapons after 1979? I'm not sure why this would be the case, but deterring possible Soviet encroachment seems like a reasonable justification. Before the Shah was overthrown, he was...

Parts of Southern India having only Brahmins and Shudras doesn't tell us very much. This is because there are sub-groups within the four main caste groups, numbering in the thousands.

Hinduism is not a proselytising religion (at least not in the traditional sense). Indeed, Hinduism is more a way of life than a 'religion' per se. This is why it's possible to be a cultural Hindu, but not a religious Hindu. Actually, Kshatriyas are considered more important than Brahmins as...

Give Islam an equivalent to the Pope.

Don't you do a "[/THREAD]" on me, I want this thread to get lots of interesting replies! :p

Create an industrialisation process that is widely considered to be the Third Industrial Revolution.

Every animated film in cinemas these days seems to be 3D. How can 2D animated films stay in cinemas?

Touché! :p

I admit that I have no idea how the Americas could be decolonised, but if this actually happened, what would the Americas be like today? I think that the borders of sovereign states in the Americas would be drawn along ethnolinguistic lines and there might be many more countries in the Americas...

Most of the world uses the base-ten numeral system. But what if most of the world used a different numeral system (like base-three or base-six, for example)? How would the world be different if a different numeral system was used worldwide?

Your challenge in this thread is to make polyandry (i.e. one woman having more than one husband simultaneously) not only common in the world today, but also accepted in mainstream society today.