AH Challange : Make OTL less of a wank.

Nietzsche

Banned
So lets see. First, in human history, it was a Mediterranean-Wank, and has technically stayed that way since. But moving on, it became an Italio-wank, then a Gothic/Gaul Wank, ect, ect, ect onwards until we reach Franco-Wanke, Brit-Bukkake that delved into United States of Ameriwank.


How can we make history less...


Well, less of a circle-jerk. But, it has to resemble OTL. Your POD can be as early as 10th Century BCE.

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Hnau

Banned
That's the way of history. A nation that has not had a golden age has a good opportunity to have one when the other nations have exhausted their resources and found themselves enough opponents to check their spread of power. Look at any nation that has for a moment stolen the limelight of history and you will find this to be true.

There is a cycle, a 'pride cycle' if you will among all peoples. A people that has no history of greatness (or a history of recent weakness to erase prior greatness, as say China or maybe even Europe), that has not modernized fully or has unsuspecting neighbours, when the call of greatness comes, can prove very powerful and enthusiastic. The people do not demand as much and react wholeheartedly to the call. Their population grows, their territory expands, they grow wealthy and modern according to the times. And then the nation becomes comfortable, proud and less willing to challenge the world, and their neighbours, reacting to a threat, manage to contain them. This brief shining moment is replaced by a long period of deterioration, until the nation is so downtrodden that they can hear that glorious call of a golden age once more.

A lot of impractical theory yes, but most examples of OTL wank fit into this model. And, in my opinion, a true wank in AH has to be improbable, a series of lucky breaks that will not stop. That's not too common in history.
 
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