Faraday Cage
The 1001 Arabian POD's thread has inspired me. Specifically "WI Arabian sailors discovered Japan?" when I was already thinking "Hey, the Arabians had good ships and the Indian Ocean is known for being a peaceful one that has been crossed by men in canoes, so what if there had been more Arabian exchange with India?".
So this thread is sort of a Arabian age of sail wank discussion. If you can use meiji as a generic term to describe a culture rapidly modernizing, here let's use swahili as a generic term for cultures created by colonization/intermingling with Arabian sailors. So why not Swahili Indians or even Swahili Chinese, Japanese, and Oceanian Aboriginals? What if this grew into an "Eastern Wind" to spread Islam or was an attempt to bypass Persia's monopoly as the middle-man in Silk Road trading?
So this thread is sort of a Arabian age of sail wank discussion. If you can use meiji as a generic term to describe a culture rapidly modernizing, here let's use swahili as a generic term for cultures created by colonization/intermingling with Arabian sailors. So why not Swahili Indians or even Swahili Chinese, Japanese, and Oceanian Aboriginals? What if this grew into an "Eastern Wind" to spread Islam or was an attempt to bypass Persia's monopoly as the middle-man in Silk Road trading?