WI No Gypsies?

I'm not sure when they first appeared in Europe (I think around the year 1000 AD) but lets just say in the early 1700's they were banned from Europe.

How would the culture of Europe have been changed?
 
Not too different I suppose, although it would be one less group for Hitler to persecute. Possibly the Irish Travellers would become more wide-spread as a result.
 
Not too different I suppose, although it would be one less group for Hitler to persecute. Possibly the Irish Travellers would become more wide-spread as a result.
Personally I've never met a Gypsy or Roma but from what I've read they have been a part of European culture for centuries. Is this true?
 
How exactly are you going to ban them from the entirety of Europe in the 1700's when they've survived repression, genocide and similar efforts by even more technologically advanced and capable regimes?
 
How to stop gypsies from migrating from India? is their migration caused by religion?

Well for Europe, maybe they stop and settles in Islam's land.. OR they go *east*.

(BTW kinda unrelated or not, there was a less known and older Silk Road going SOUTH of Tibet I am told, by Yunan...)
 
Didn't they come from what is now Pakistan?

No, the Romani people are a mixture of people who initially orgininated from Central India, though their's some evidence that the Domba people, who live pretty much throughout the entire indian subcontinent may be related as well.
 
Well for Europe, maybe they stop and settles in Islam's land.. OR they go *east*.

(BTW kinda unrelated or not, there was a less known and older Silk Road going SOUTH of Tibet I am told, by Yunan...)
Gypsies in Dali/Nanchao(present day Yunnan) or Cambodia, in that case the gypsies could get assimilated before they can get to China, because the Kingdoms they pass are already indicized.

No, the Romani people are a mixture of people who initially orgininated from Central India, though their's some evidence that the Domba people, who live pretty much throughout the entire indian subcontinent may be related as well.
Thanks for the information.
 

The Vulture

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How exactly are you going to ban them from the entirety of Europe in the 1700's when they've survived repression, genocide and similar efforts by even more technologically advanced and capable regimes?

With the help of wizards.
 
When I was in Spain, I saw them. Offering flowers and such, at one point when we were in an alley eating ice cream we had to hustle up onto the icecream property since they are not allowed on private property... They were craddling babies at their breasts asking for money.
 
To be honest, nothing much would change. Gypsies really had much of an impact on European society (with the possible exception of Romania that is) apart from annoying locals.
 
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