Recent content by Mr. pollos

But that isn’t advantageous, the earlier you fight the Yanks for the first timen the smaller the gap will be (unless it’s really late game). I Usually disband the irregulars, Build up as fast as I can so the Tejans don’t add a war goal, and then retreat to make the Yanks take high attrition...

Man, you are up to a good start! Managing to annex Tejas was really hard for me in my Mexico game. Those Yanks have a huge man power pool. I wasn’t able to get a favorable peace with the yanks till 1850, 14 years of war that nearly broke my economy... luckily New England and the CSA formed later...

Man, I’m sorry if it appeared I was doing that. I was just pointing out that in some cases It wasn’t only up to the individual, but governmental institutions often made it difficult for slave owners to free their slaves. That is not to say that one can find loopholes in that sort of system in...

Not necessarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumission

My gut reaction was “Dawkins seems Calvinist enough.”, because: That doctrine of the Calvinists seems to be well and alive amongst modern intellectuals, even atheist ones...

probably a bit off topic... But the OP reminded me of a very good short story by Mike Flynn. http://www.tor.com/2011/05/04/the-iron-shirts/#comment-185876 It involves a horse un-extinction POV I know of several “European” markers found in American Indians. The consensus is, they...

I know near nothing of linguistics, so I am talking(typing) out of my ass, but I think vernacular Latin may become simplified. To quote someone who is a linguist on the development of languages that were OTL in a situation similar to this ALT Latin...

Humans are not at all in such a relationship with chimps, different species, man. They are not even in the same genus. While proving domestication in Humans may not be a trivial issue, chimps and bonobos have diverged for quite a long time, and we have access to specimens of both, comparisons...

This is very important. Without the price revolution, the global balance of power may remain the same for a few more centuries if not indefinitely. All those conquistadores may try their luck in Spain’s European armies; we will also see a more populated Castile by as much as 1/3. So Spanish...

The OP reminds me of a mayor plot point in the Freefall web comic: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2600/fv02530.htm Bonobo Chimps are semi-domestic Chimps, just like Present day humans are semi-domestic humans, they both have smaller brains weaker bones, a more mellow temperament, etc...

I never even considered that, most articles I have read seem to consider an analogical related to comparisons(ordinal), the number line(cardinal), and a third system relating to verbalization… it is not hard to imagine a language were this third mechanism for number perception plays a more...

Really? I’m honestly baffled, I have ordered food in fractions, when at the market, since I have been ordering foodstuffs at the market… 250 of something seems like a lot more words than one forth, particularly in French… I can take that as another task, other than the previously mentioned...

Well yhea, when it comes to anything meaningful, base is meaningless. So when comparing bases we must focus on things were their differences mater, every day arithmetic, measures, and commercial transactions, etc. Humans think of quantity ordinal rather than cardinally. That is why halves...

Well, some people in south Asia use base 12, like some people have previously pointed out, it is actually superior to base 10. This SETI Talk comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MV65airaPA There is a pattern in in the last 2 digits of squares, so that in decimal, 26^2 has the...

I call your Pomeranz, and raise you a California School of Economic History. Just to be annoying and to show that this matter is far from settled. I think it is too early to have an opinion one way or the other. But yhea, one of Europe’s main advantages was the existence of state backed...