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  1. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan

    1. Possibly, but I'm not entirely sure on that part yet. 2. Some might try, but the only organised support comes from external powers like the Tibetans and some Yuan princes. The Sinhala and Burmese might try, but both countries are fairly wartorn and facing a lot major threats themselves. 3...

  2. AHC: The wankest possible Madagascar

    It's about the size of Thailand and occupies a similar strategic position (at absolute best--there is nothing like the threat to Singapore or the Isthmus of Kra regarding Madagascar). That part of the Indian Ocean has a lot of different colonial powers active there, including Britain, France...

  3. AHC: The wankest possible Madagascar

    Madagascar has a 0% chance of winning a war against Britain in the 19th century no matter how many reforms and industrialisation they go through. They'd be lucky to beat a minor power like the Dutch or Portuguese. The best chance for a more successful Madagascar is getting an Islamic adventurer...

  4. AHC: A White Nationalist neopagan country.

    Only in a Nazi victory scenario. Maybe Norway eventually ends up like this by trying to out-Nazi the Nazis, like maybe after Quisling dies.

  5. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan

    1. One Kagyu lineage, the Drikung Kagyu, has a weird relation with the Tibetan government in this era since they're politically opposed to the Sakya who ruled Tibet on behalf of the Yuan, but did have a relation with the Chagatai who backed them to gain influence in Tibet and destabilise the...

  6. Good Vinland PODs?

    1. That's a stereotype. Plenty of strangers (i.e. people from Iceland, Norway, and Denmark) set foot in medieval Greenland and traded with the locals, sometimes to the obvious disadvantage of the locals, and didn't catch an axe to the head. The Norse were perfectly capable of engaging in...

  7. Good Vinland PODs?

    The Beothuk might have been a different case than Labrador given they were on an island and may have been more isolationist or more apt to interpret Norse actions in a negative light. Labrador seems to have been ethnically fragmented since at least 2 cultures--Dorset and the ancestors of the...

  8. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan

    I have not had a chance to complete the next entry this week, but did recently come across The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire. Given The Cambridge History of Japan has always been one of my go-to sources for TTL, I'm quite interested to fully digest this even if a lot of it is things I...

  9. Not so invincible after all: Fastest declines of powerful dynasties and noble houses 1200-1500AD

    The Ilkhanate is also a great example since they imploded into constant civil war after Abu Said Bahadur Khan died without a clear successor in 1335. While the power of the Ilkhan himself was declining in the 14th century, it was clear the Ilkhan still had some control over the situation. This...

  10. Good Vinland PODs?

    I wonder if settling Labrador (Markland) first would have been the key to a successful Vinland. Labrador has a similar climate to Greenland, which is actually perfect for the Norse, except it has far more trees. It seems expeditions there became common in the 13th and 14th century when the Thule...

  11. Not so invincible after all: Fastest declines of powerful dynasties and noble houses 1200-1500AD

    In 1331, the Houjou clan dominated Japan as they had for over a century, with the power to name both shogun and emperor (and crown prince) and whose direct vassals controlled about 25% of Japan's arable land. Although there were some problems arising internally, their rule seemed secure since...

  12. Rubber as part of the Columbian exchange/early rubber boom

    Interestingly, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera notes that rubber was produced using juice from a specific vine, and his works were available in Latin, French, German, and English by the mid-16th century. Along with other descriptions of rubber, I wonder if this could have spurred additional interest in...

  13. Effects on Cryptocurrency with no credit crunch and reasonable US debt to GDP rate.

    Bitcoin was a revolutionary advancement in that field since it was both decentralized AND was the first major use of a blockchain. It would have the same uses as previous digital currency, but without the shadier aspects of them. Then you also have to consider that a wide number of...

  14. Rubber as part of the Columbian exchange/early rubber boom

    Since there's been a few threads lately on this subject, I figured I'd start my own on some insights I found. Anyway, Rubber usage goes back millennia in Mesoamerica, where the Panama rubber tree Castilla elastica was tapped for its natural latex and processed into various goods such as balls...

  15. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan

    Thank you. I will extend it either this Thursday or next Thursday with the Chagatai's own civil war. That is correct. The Chagatai Khanate now dominates northern India until roughly the border of modern West Bengal, but doesn't extend too far south of the Ganges and Yamuna, and even in that...

  16. Would it be possible for the Viking age to continue until the 19th century?

    Denmark and the formerly Norse Scottish islands maybe, but one could imagine a pagan Sweden/Norway/Finland/Baltic remaining a continual threat to Christendom (and occasional trading partner of course) for quite some time just as the Barbary states did. The Barbary pirates did huge damage in the...

  17. Humanity II Ideas Thread

    I wonder how that would work. It's a giant swamp prone to severe hurricanes, but it's also an area rich in shellfish that permits sedentary civilisation in areas. And it can't really connect well with the Caribbean (beside the Bahamas) since the currents and winds blow out to the Atlantic, hence...

  18. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan

    Depends on a lot of factors. He's still alive for now. But many of his Sufi brethren have met their demise. That's certainly the case. They're still numerous and hold a lot of power, so Islam can still revive a lot of strength. In Magadha it would be rather relevant, since the Pithipatis have...

  19. Would it be possible for the Viking age to continue until the 19th century?

    Yes. Likely it would require a giant pagan Russia/Russia equivalent to the east. The Scandinavian market is too small for slave trading to be much of a thing and they'd have no ability to establish manpower-intensive industries in other colonies.

  20. WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?

    Which wasn't a problem in northern China or parts of Japan where wheat and millet were more common crops than rice. In medieval Japan, most peasants would rarely eat the rice they farmed since it was used for tribute, and said tribute was often sold to sake producers. Processing such a rubber...
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