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  1. WI: Further Muslim Expansion into France

    One factor seldom mentioned is that paganism and various pagan practices were still common in France until the counter reformation, The Christianity of this era was one of the elite imposing their version on everyone else while the peasants tried to ignore them…. Catharism came from that area of...

  2. Was the Spanish Empire the last of the ancient style empires instead of the first of the modern colonial ones?

    The term Empire is defunct or more accurately needs to be firmly defined…… Florence was a city state it most certainly tried to conquer its neighbours and expand its territory more or less Proto-empire Hamburg was part of the hansetic league and later was involved in Holy Roman politics so could...

  3. Was the Spanish Empire the last of the ancient style empires instead of the first of the modern colonial ones?

    True but the point hasn’t been made about Spain. The conquistadors didn’t spring from nowhere rather from constant warfare for hundred of years with a vicious religious justification tacked on then throw in the inquisition and the New World and you got the cluster genocide of OTL…. Didn’t mean...

  4. Was the Spanish Empire the last of the ancient style empires instead of the first of the modern colonial ones?

    Why not???

  5. Was the Spanish Empire the last of the ancient style empires instead of the first of the modern colonial ones?

    Then what about the Aztec, mass human sacrifice Or the Mayans plenty of human sacrifices…. Or the Olmec same again. Or the sumerians who practiced mass murder when the King died… Or Genghis khan… Or any other number of horrible people/empires who killed millions for no other reason than that...

  6. Was the Spanish Empire the last of the ancient style empires instead of the first of the modern colonial ones?

    Everyone always forgets that Empires and colonisation do not happen in a vacuum nor do they occur for no reason…. The Spanish Empire did not start with the voyage of Columbus….. It started with the reconquista of southern Spain around 1200 or so… The English and and Dutch empires were not really...

  7. Social effects of "industrial" ancient rome

    The real secret is that you don’t need steam to industrialise Rome just the organisation of already realised or reachable technologies and models of social organisation…. Or something like that…

  8. What's the REAL reason Polynesians didn't colonise Australia?

    The rising and the falling of the sea controlled who and when Australasia was colonised. Polynesian colonisation was controlled by sea currents, local overpopulation and the human need to see what is over the horizon…. Bantu colonising again was driven by different factors entirely from the...

  9. What's the REAL reason Polynesians didn't colonise Australia?

    But is that the case? Proto agricultural practices def did as they would have had to exist so as to produce the subsequent agricultural package…. Plus one snippet I read recently is that the baking of bread preceded the growing of grain by several thousand years so why can’t this apply to the...

  10. What's the REAL reason Polynesians didn't colonise Australia?

    Polynesian colonies or trading posts could have existed in northern Australia and most likely did. Unless they built a large scale urban centre or port for instance it would be pretty hard to find evidence especially as most spots would have been developed during a time when such remains as...

  11. Had Whig Supremacy continued, would the American Revolution have been prevented?

    They just would have turned a blind eye… Though an earlier invention of the cotton gin would have stimulated as in otl but 40 years earlier the colonial expansion into the southern OTL states…

  12. What if the Camel was domesticated camel was introduced in the Sahara in the 3rd Millenium BC

    Something to do with their feet causing soil compaction and the camel trade routes were extensive as well as the intensive grazing of goats and sheep herding that went along with that lifestyle would destroy marginal land over time.

  13. WI: Tea cultivation introduced to India in medieval times

    The monk thing sounds more likely….. The silver for for tea lack is significant as it diverts and changes soooooo many things…. it wouldn’t initially change the break up of Mughal India as tea didn’t become popular in the west until 1600’s or so. However when it did silver wouldn’t be the...

  14. What if the Camel was domesticated camel was introduced in the Sahara in the 3rd Millenium BC

    The introduction of the camel would accelerate desertification due to soil compaction and grazing in marginal areas…. Plus all that other stuff…… It could mean a Portugal situation in west Africa to circumvent hostile desert camel riding nomads Rome would build bases on the coast to reach the...

  15. Spain sells Philippines to Japan in 1896 - impacts on World War II(and 20th century)

    Most likely correct however that didn’t stop them from invading China…. Or from Rhodesia and South Africa doing their thing or in fact Israel having a perpetual war. Up until WW2 the Japanese population was expanding massively no WW2 and I wouldn’t surprised that when the Empire collapses that...

  16. Spain sells Philippines to Japan in 1896 - impacts on World War II(and 20th century)

    Nope…… They would export the whole Shinto/bhuddist vibe and suppress Islam/ Christianity… promote pagan religions expel Spanish settlers. Each island could be isolated by the navy then the army could sweep the population up and export them to Manchuria as slave labour….

  17. Spain sells Philippines to Japan in 1896 - impacts on World War II(and 20th century)

    The point I am making is that the population of the Philippines while growing was not growing as quickly as Japan. Settler colonies are only expensive if you care about the natives and build infrastructure. Japanese immigrants would not care if they were given land. Japan was moving from an...

  18. Spain sells Philippines to Japan in 1896 - impacts on World War II(and 20th century)

    Most of these replies ignore the fact the Japan was demographically exploding in 1895 giving it the population to colonise heavily any places it controlled just to alleviate population pressures (see otl Italian Libya around the same time) plus the fact that a larger empire might prevent the...

  19. WI Commodus Dies 182 (No Commodus, Severus, or Caracella)

    Yes the debasement of the currency, one thing that has not been mentioned was the primary driver of inflation during the republic and the Empire I.e the trade with east for Luxury products. Merchants wouldn’t take face value for debased Denarii… So when a coin/bullion with higher purity was used...

  20. Consequences of a total Soviet victory in a 1948 World War III

    😆😆😆😆😆 baloney 😂😂😂😂😂 The Red Army didn’t have the manpower to roll over western Europe and hold down Eastern Europe and Manchuria as well. Most USAF bases were in UK what is to stop them bombing the already shattered logistics of Europe no roads, no rail, no fuel, no food, no army? Red airforce...
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