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  1. Shahrasayr

    Real History Question: Buddhism as a State Religion

    Are you referring to early Buddhism? Which school? Which period? Which period? Because a lot of these play into it. Even if one were to take Christianity as a state religion, one could perhaps understand the power of the Pope and the various Catholic dioceses across Europe during the Middle Ages...
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    Anatolian languages and culture.

    Lycian has the best chance to survive if the Lycians incorporate better into the Achaemenid Empire and are able to enmesh themselves into the imperial power structure.
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    Hinduism and Buddhism Spreads to the Pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula by 600 AD?

    I'm being a bit cheeky, its far from universally accepted in comparative mythology, but there is such a school of thought that supposes mythemes and narrative tropes from the life of Siddhartha Gautama are mirrored in the Gospels of the Bible, to such an extent that they may be inspired by such...
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    Hinduism and Buddhism Spreads to the Pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula by 600 AD?

    First things first, it is important to remember that as important as states were in the ancient world, life did continue without them. A Roman state isn't absolutely necessary to be conducive to the spread of Buddhism in the area. We know there were shramanic communities popping up in the Near...
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    AHC: Italic Greece

    Italy during the Geometric and Archaic periods of Greece simply wasn't a place which could either politically or demographically challenge the Greek colonists that were establishing colonies throughout Magna Graecia, and it took till the end of the fifth century BCE for any Italic-origin...
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    What if Rome sends a Navy to conquer India

    Here's Casson's bit on a Roman presence in Muziris. Seland basically extrapolates from thsi that the Templum Augusti and factory in Arikamedu would have had to be constructed by legionaires given the brickwork, a skill that wasn't present in the Tamil countryindicating atleast a semi-permanent...
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    What if Rome sends a Navy to conquer India

    It's my mistake, I was referring to Arikamedu, not Madurai. And when I say legion, I mean there was a cohors from the Legio III Cyrenaica stationed there, not the entire legion. Seland has the best modern paper on Arikamedu, if you wanna look into it further. I'm sure Reich mentioned something...
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    no roman empire does the roman republic last?

    The Roman ‘Republic’, viewed through our modern anachronistic lens, was long dead by the Second Triumvirate. The Roman aristocracy had gutted itself of its manpower through infighting and internecine conflict, while also losing prestige in the eyes of the general public. The situation had been...
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    Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The World The Neo-Persians Built

    I’m very interested to see how Zoroastrianism develop in this TL. I have no doubt that it can flourish across the west, but a reformation not unlike that of Mazdak might be needed. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the faith is marked by sectarian differences and violence.
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    Why american empires?

    Yup. Disraeli wanted to curry favour with the Queen and the deposition of the Great Mughal was the perfect excuse. It marked the perfect transition of British India from tertiary territory governed by the BEIC to one of direct rule. But I've also read that Victoria originally wanted to extend...
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    What if Rome sends a Navy to conquer India

    They already had a cohors stationed in Madurai as far as I remember, the remains of the Roman entrepot with the stamped bricks of the legion are still standing to this day. But a trade quarter is not a conquest. The Romans had tried repeatedly to secure and build up the Red Sea as their years...
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    Save Historical Lost Cities to the Modern-Day

    They already did. Augustus established Illium not too far from modern day Hissarlik.
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    How technologically advanced could a Bronze Age Society feasibly get

    I mean I'd argue flushing toilets and a sanitation system are pretty advanced and the IVC managed to implement both with a Bronze Age metallurgical package.
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    How technologically advanced could a Bronze Age Society feasibly get

    I mean I’m no engineer but I’d assume it can be used for armour at the very least. But all the other things you listed are hardly linked to the Bronze Age, but if you wanna talk sky scrapers, ziggurats are immense and can be achieved by the much cheaper, if more labour intensive use of mud brick...
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    How technologically advanced could a Bronze Age Society feasibly get

    Good catch, but I don’t reckon it reduces the validity of my argument. Steel is an alloy that is just as labour intensive, if not more, than bronze and has some idiosyncracies in its metallurgical smithing process. Thus the introduction of iron to what I assume is an urbanised Bronze Age society...
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    How technologically advanced could a Bronze Age Society feasibly get

    Why would the availability of iron affect their trajectory if the materials needed to make bronze are abundant? Bronze is a far superior metal to iron.
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    Indus Valley Civilization expands to the Ganges?

    I think we’re agreeing? We only call it Sanskrit. for ease of use. Within the Rigveda it’s only referred to as vác, ‘words, voice’ and bhāṣá or ‘language’. Panini, his predecessors and successors only refer to the language they have refined as Sanskrit, while retroactively applying the term to...
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    Indus Valley Civilization expands to the Ganges?

    I think when Madhukar says Sanskrit he's referring to the various Old Indo-Aryan dialects. In fact I think the word Sanskrit shouldn't even be used in this context, Sanskrit can only refer to the refined classical language of Panini. Old Pracya (for the eastern languages), Old Pascima (for the...
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    Indus Valley Civilization expands to the Ganges?

    You’re right about the IVC containing retroflexes, I believe they’re the mainstay areal feature of Indic languages, but the truth of the matter is by the time of collapse the IVC society would have been polyglots in the elite circles, speaking both their ancestral tongue and the Sanskrit of the...
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    Indus Valley Civilization expands to the Ganges?

    The reason the IVC didn’t expand into the Indo-Gangetic Valley is simple; they had already established many mining villages in the northern Aravallis, specifically the Tosham Hills. These settlements acted as both resource extraction locations and trading posts. Trade with whom you may ask...
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