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People seem extremely reluctant to utilize alternate Great Men in their TL's. I think its due to a fear of seeming like they are simply handwaving improbable changes through, but I find it even more historically unprobable that a country might go through 1000 years of history without any...

I'll spoil the suspense. No, there is not a chance Russia is going to try to go for the East Indies. Yeah, obviously it isn't how an actual conference would go, but I cut it down in the interest of brevity. Considering I copied the line, unaltered, from Riasonvky's history of Russia, maybe...

По-русски говорящии- Я думаю что я хочу писать некоторыи имя по-русски. Вы думаете что его хорошая идея, или его будет очень трудно читать и понимаю? Извините что беспокою вас, и я знаю что мой по-русски очень ужасный- я только начинаю говорить по-русски шесть месяцы назад. Спасебо

It was in a slightly different time period, but just from a very few years of French hegemony under Napoleon in our TL... - spread of nationalism and Enlightenment ideals - largely eliminated the outdated feudal system of governance found in Germany and Italy and planted the seeds for...

I completely forgot I had this story still going... I'll try to find some free time to continue the TL. I know in my head whats going to happen, but man is writing it all out a bitch.

Thats not backward, thats comparative advantage, and one of the cornerstones of modern economic theory.

No matter what changes are made, a massive Slavic dominated, Moscow centered Russia pops up like clockwork. People don't seem to realize the very particular sequence of events that allowed OTL to happen- if you had to take bets, the most likely outcome is probably a series of competing states-...

Make France the country that kicks off the the IR, not Britain. Bonus points if you explore what Europe would look like with the French as the industrial pioneers, not the British.

Bump diggity Faeelin and abas, i would love to hear more of your respective arguments.

Fair enough. But I think it is significant that merchants were scorned in doctrinaire Confucianism. Pure science doesn't necessarily need banks. But applied science in the form of technology and possibly an industrial revolution certainly does. Where do you get funding foryour factories...

I actually had to write a full length research paper on the subject of Chinese science and technology fairly recently. The main reasons China didn't develop an industrial revolution were (in no particular order)... 1) Lack of the all-important merchant class, which in European societies were...

I just re-read the entire thread, and at least a dozen people, directly or indirectly, commented on the fact that either you were deliberately not understanding arguments, or just had a terrible knowledge of history. Me, Keenir, Flocc, MrP, Imajin, EvolvedSaurian, Napoleon, Wozza, pa-dutch...

Do you know the term trolling? It refers to, in general, gross breach of forum conduct. One of the main instances usually cited as trolling is making outlandish, illogical claims to provoke argument, and then refusing to back down from said idiotic claims. Its to prevent the forum being clogged...

Well since you've presented so much evidence to back that up, and we haven't... oh wait...

I admire you sir. You do not allow a words given definition to affect your use of it. Here, let me try. I conquered my toast this morning, it was delicious. I try to eat healthy now, because my doctor conquered my head with statistics about the bad affects of letting cholestorol conquer the...