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  1. A Fourth Branch of Buddhism

    What about hellenistic buddhism amongst the indo-greeks? could it make its way back to the mediterranean and become a major branch?

  2. What if earlier canal system to make Baltic-Black sea-Caspian travel possible?

    To be honest, to me the most interesting thing about an earlier don-volga canal would not be the connection between the baltic and black seas but the connection between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. An earlier canal could allow Russia to deploy its Black Sea fleet to the Caspian and force...

  3. What if earlier canal system to make Baltic-Black sea-Caspian travel possible?

    also, the volga-don canal is not the most ambitious link in a baltic-black sea waterway. The would be addyional canal(s) necessary to link the upper volga to the baltic and probably more canals to bypass rapids/shallows on the volga. Also, the volga is a long, windy river, meaning that it would...

  4. AHC make nihilism a political movement

    It seems almost like a nihilist party would sort of be a joke party. They would run candidates on satirical platforms to demonstrate how absurd and meaningless the political exercise is.... Maybe they might somtimes win in local electioms (like the Monster Raving Loony party has in the UK), but...

  5. What if the bicycle was invented in 1600?

    Why generate electricity using human power when you have waterwheels?? Maybe if you have tons of enslaved criminals that you have no other use for, perhaps? But seriously, once people figure out how to generate and use current electricity, existing waterwheels and windmills will be the first...

  6. What if the bicycle was invented in 1600?

    You also need a fairly lightweight wheel to be able to get started easily under human power. So you need reasonsbly lightweight forms of steel, the idea of building a tangent-spoked wheel (allowing for much smaller spokes), and pneumatic tires (again rubber is the issue here but just one of the...

  7. Alternate Estates

    What about a Bureaucrat estate in a Europe where Imperial Rome adopts a governancr structure more like Imperial China but still collapses. The Bureaucrats would include lawyers, mathematicians/accountants, surveyors/cartographers, civil engineers, bankers/economists, etc. but would be treated as...

  8. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Thande, I just finished my read-through of all of LTTW from start to finish (it took me two months). If you're still accepting requests for extra material to add to Volume IV, I have one request: Russia. There are a few events involving Russia I feel could do with more explaining. 1. At the...

  9. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Well, then it would no longer commemorate the centenary of the Chappe optel network...

  10. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    I'm re-reading the wuole thing right now because uodates 249 and 250 got me excited and i've spotted a needed retcon: from interlude $16: This quote implies that the UPSA was already replaced by the combine in 1896 but we now know that the date of the scoietist takeover is late 1899/ early...

  11. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    I'm pretty sure it's not mandatory adoptions but mandatory daycares/group-homes. I'm pretty sure "garderistas" is derived from.the Spanish word for daycare.

  12. Development of a Canadian Alaska?

    Yeah I think the best bet would be an enterprising naval commander in the Pacific choosing to take on Alaska during the Crimean War and succeeding. With the end of the war, Britain would feel compelled to ask for Alaska in the peace (giving it back for nothing in exchange would be a blow to...

  13. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Wow! Just wow! I can really see how the Societist revolution is happening now. Th last history-book post describing Caraibas left me wondering how Societism would become revolutionaty, since Caraibas seemed like such an anti-revolutionary to me, and it's only now dawning on me how it all works...

  14. Manufacture a claim to the Roman Empire for every country

    Canada: Our Senate is the true successor to the Roman Senate because: 1. Senators serve for life. 2. The Senate has very little real power.

  15. The top ten best decisions in history

    The decision by the British government to voluntarily give up their colonies after WWII rather than try to hang on to them like France did (I know this is an overgenerslization). If India and other British colonies had been forced to fight a violent struggle for independence, the human cost...

  16. WI - Haile Selassie I, King of Israel!

    The Ethiopian Church is not Eastern Orthodox. It is non-Chalcedonian, in the Oriental Orthodox family of churches... But yes, I agrre that the Ethopian wouldn't accept a non-Christian. Unsure if they would accept an Emperor who converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, or would reject anyone who wasn't...

  17. AHC: A Viking, Arab, Byzantine state

    ok how about this: Step 1: Varangian guard coup in Constantinople establishes a Norse dynasty in Byzantium Step 2: While the Abbasids are busy fighting the Seljuks, a Norse Emperor launches a campaign into the Levant, taking control of Syria. Step 3: While this Norse Emperor is out...

  18. Origins of Sentinelese?

    Or maybe their ancestors lost that knowledge at some point? After all, their ancestors probably knew how to make rafts in order to reach the island?

  19. AHC: 10 million Zoroastrians worldwide

    He somehow survives AIDS long enough for anti-retrovirals to come on the scene (I seem to recall it was really only a matter of him not admitting he was sick until it was too late) and credits Ahura Mazda with keeping him alive. This leads millions of his fans to convert.

  20. AHC: make juries unheard of

    I think the best way would probably be to avoid the development of a process of formalized trials, with the application or the law being instead delegated to bureaucrats. Some of these bureaucrats would take the role of "judge" and would oversee a trial-equivalent process. A...
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