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Where would Persia be in all of this? I haven't read much about their political situation at the time. Though I will be shortly, since work is fucking DEAD today...

No offense, but I have always found these kind of arguments to be more than a little intellectually dishonest. Early Christianity spoke openly against the practice, and especially considering the fact that circumcision was and continues to be performed at an advanced age in Islam (sometimes as...

I'm not trying to start a war here, since I know this is a very controversial topic (for some reason), but what do you guys think the consequences of a world where Judaism never adopts circumcision, or perhaps circumcision is not practiced within Islam would look like? Might Jews and...

I could see that. So, probably some sort of a showdown between the Dardanians and the Thessalians after Philip's defeat?

As someone who speaks both Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, I can tell you that the two are actually fairly closely related, and the relations are easy to spot in conversation quite a bit of the time in terms of grammar. Vocabulary not as much so, since phonologically speaking the two are quite...

I've been reading a lot about the political situation when Philip took the throne as regent for his nephew, and another date for his death came to mind - the Battle of Erigon Valley. What if the Dardanians had won? Obviously, Macedon would definitely have imploded as it was already extremely...

I am interested in killing Philip of Macedon, but more importantly, butterflying away any Macedonian Empire. The three possible times to do this that I've found would be... A. In 355-54, during his siege of Methone. This is apparently when he lost an eye. What if he died of the...

How about funerary cannibalism? What if a society believes that eating the flesh of your loved ones after death helps you to absorb a part of their soul so that it can always be with you? Such people might cringe at the idea of burying your dead to be eaten by bugs and worms, who never loved the...

This one is highly problematic without some kind of a Indo-European POD... which is entirely plausible. Not enough people on this forum seem to be keen on totally rewriting history. Lurking, I've seen a couple of attempts, but they all seem to die. But yeah, Lusitanian may not have been a...

There are a fascinating number of natural ways in which you can give the Y sperms a head start. Apparently rear-end sex positions help to accomplish this by depositing them closer to the cervix, helping in their head start (y chromosome sperms are faster and more agile than their X counterparts...

Camelops... Paleolama, Hemiauchenia, one of the 5 species of equids that prowled both North and South America? Hippidion comes to mind for South America, perhaps one of two macrauchenids? There was also a sheep-sized protothere in South America at the time of humans' arrival... Neolicaphrium, I...

Sorry, this post is definitely going to re-hash some of the other posts, but I haven't had a chance to drop in. So here we go... Interesting... I can't agree here. I really don't think that European politics were that simple at the time. Just because there is no threat of Islam...

It seems like chat, to me. It would be an interesting idea for alternate history, but we need some kind of a PoD in the "industry" or in adoption law for that.

Yeah, I agree. The concept of closed adoptions is fucked up. But that doesn't mean I disagree with adoptions period. If parents want to give up their legal responsibilities to their children, then by all means, they should be able to - baby hungry gay people like myself would jump at the...

Just glancing over this, it looks to be going very well thus far. And no, Dirk, your writing doesn't suck. Don't worry ;)

The Gokturks to my knowledge were not a distinct ethnic group until some centuries after Christ. What are the theories behind what drove Turkish Migration, by the way? I haven't had the chance to do a lot of reading the past couple of days, it's been pretty busy.

Sunchoke, anybody? I know it's already a domesticate, but why it wasn't used as a foundational crop is a mystery to me...

Perhaps an earlier Turkic migration then?

Ummm... Hungary, anyone? I think I'm being misunderstood. I'm interested in the idea of the Eastern European Scythians settling down, perhaps in Pannonia, perhaps in Romania or Ukraine, and creating a lasting state that doesn't get absorbed within the first few centuries after.

The Scythians of Eastern Europe, at least prior to the Late Roman Empire when they started calling everyone "Scythians", were speakers of Eastern Indo-Iranian languages though. I meant to be more specific in my posting - I meant speakers of Eastern-Indo-Iranian languages in Eastern Europe -...