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  1. PC: Preventing Imperial border gore

    Another interesting perspective to analyse is that the apparent border gore is an anachronic presentism. For all "formal" purposes, the Holy Roman Empire was a single severeign entity and internal borders didn't reflect territories as autonomous entities with geographical or cultural identities...

  2. The colony that had colonies

    Err... Much more Portuguese people migrated to Brazil than Europeans to the Thirteen Colonies. Brazil had more than enough manpower to expand with a large number of Portuguese willing to migrate to literally anywhere. A large number of people didn't migrate to central South America because the...

  3. The colony that had colonies

    Expansion towards Bolivia is geographically unviable during colonial times. Rivers were the roads back then and the area between OTL Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil correspond to the Pantanal wetlands and the drylands of the Grab Chaco - it's not a coincidence that the Chaco was a disputed land...

  4. AHQ: Best way to make a powerful empire in Africa?

    Most of African soil isn't suited to large scale agriculture and the lands that actually are suited are on mountains far into the continent. Thus, the trick to make is to create a commercial empire with a that doesn't actually focus on selling people... If a power centered on the Ethiopian...

  5. Have Thailand be partitioned between Britain and France as colonies POD 1825-1914

    The most natural way to divide it is to separate the Chao Phraya basin from the Isan, which is not only geographically different from the alluvial plains of Central Thailand but also linguistically closer to Lao. EDIT: by the way, the division of Thailand isn't politically interesting for any...

  6. Wank Argentina

    A country centered with its political center in the Pampas (ie OTL Argentina) is fated to be a country focused on the exportation of primary goods. It's the American midwest without the interaction with all other important internal demographic centers (eg the South and the American Northeast)...

  7. AHC/WI - British Panama

    How come? A ship filled with a less than a thousand people disembarked in some isolated Panamanian beach only to be abandoned in a year or so. It can hardly be classified as a colony.

  8. AHC/WI - British Panama

    The Scottish idea was actually pretty stupid as most of Peruvian silver passed through Panama. It's pretty much the only kind of possession that the Spanish wouldn't let go.

  9. British Patagonia

    The inhabited part of Australia is far from being a desert...

  10. British Patagonia

    It's a desert by the end of the world. The Spanish knew very well the area since the 16th century, but the Argentinian government only started to truly colonize it by the 1880's.

  11. AHC: Latest date of divergence to keep Europeans more superstitious

    Isn't religion supposed to be a supernatural belief by definition?

  12. Why Was Islam So Good At Conversion?

    I'm not trying to paint the Medieval Islamic society to be as liberal towards religious freedom as modern democracies. Still, at least there was some kind of garantee of respect to determined minorities that simply didn't exist in Christian nations until the modern era. In addition, religious...

  13. Why Was Islam So Good At Conversion?

    That's... oversimplifying things and a serious misunderstanding Medieval Europe. During the black death, Pope Clement VII issued in 1348 a papal bull protecting the Jews, a year later, in 1349, the worst pre-modern pogrom happened in Strasbourg. That's some 400 miles from the Pope's seat in...

  14. Why Was Islam So Good At Conversion?

    A Papal Bull can get old quite easily, most of them can barely survive to the next papacy. Particularly during Medieval times. There's an insurmountable geographical problem here. Christianity throughout most of history was surrounded by Islam until the expansion of European Mercantile States...

  15. Why Was Islam So Good At Conversion?

    One must assume that the notion of religious tolerance during the 7th century isn't the same that the founding fathers had in 1776, what you are saying doesn't contradict my point. The Dhimmi status did provide a legal framework of protection of (accepted) religious minorities within a given...

  16. Why Was Islam So Good At Conversion?

    As I see it, Christians were much more "successful" in converting people than the Muslims. For most of Christianity's history, the Church had a "convert or die" policy, whereas Islam have always maintained a framework of protection of its religious minorities.

  17. WI: Spanish Filibusters in Latin America

    Spaniards don't need to filibuster, they had overt support of the Spanish crown to fight open wars against a great number of Latin American nations. Check out Spanish history during the 19th century.

  18. Japan abolishes Kanji during the Meiji Restoration.

    To summarize, the main issue here is utilitarian, something that goes beyond these grand old nationalist narratives. Turks were mainly illiterate after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The adoption of the Latin alphabet was politically viable considering Ataturk's ideology, but the main goal was...

  19. Why Was Islam So Good At Conversion?

    Considering that some of the oldest Arabic conquests, like Lebanon and Egypt, have a huge non-Muslim population, I wouldn't say that they're more successful in converting people than any other religion. The expansion of Islam is a multifaceted phenomenon.

  20. Japan abolishes Kanji during the Meiji Restoration.

    Do you actually know Ottoman Turkish script? No, it aimed the increase of literacy amongst Turks. Wow, who dares disagree with you, eh? Thanks for the civilised manner that you treat other people in this forum.
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