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  1. Was Jesus REALLY Black? (Yes this is a serious question)

    I always thought Jesus was just a Greek transliteration of his real name - Yeshua (Joshua).

  2. Was Jesus REALLY Black? (Yes this is a serious question)

    We know that Palestinians display a "shift" genetically speaking towards modern Arabs, which again, makes sense due to geographic proximity. And we know this shift is more than you see elsewhere in the Levant. What we don't know however is how much of this was just the result of the expansion...

  3. Was Jesus REALLY Black? (Yes this is a serious question)

    Modern Palestinians should not be taken to be any more representative of what first-century Judeans looked like than Ashkenazic Jews. While they have a lot of "indigenous" ancestry (much of the West Bank population is clearly descended from Samaritan converts), they seem to have admixed more...

  4. Was Jesus REALLY Black? (Yes this is a serious question)

    The most "pure" modern Jews appear to be those from Iraq, who lack the admixture with any outside groups. Hell, they probably mostly descend from Jews who never returned to Judea after the building of the Second Temple. You can look through pictures on Google Image Search. They still look...

  5. No austronesians

    Modern-day DNA studies have uncovered strong evidence that Austro-Asiatic peoples settled Western Indonesia before the Austronesians in the form of a genetic "substrate" which is closely related to continental SE Asian populations missing in Eastern Indonesians and Taiwanese aboriginals...

  6. PC: Earliest Electricity/Telephones?

    Electricity was long known, with the first experiments involving it happening in the 6th century BC. The main issue was that electricity was not particularly useful, because no one had any idea how continually provide an electrical current to a circuit. Development of the Voltaic pile in 1799...

  7. Why was ancient China more advanced than Europe ?

    It should be noted that the Ming Dynasty after the Columbian interchange was a really odd place. On one hand, trade with Spain was causing its economy to collapse, because Spain paid for Chinese goods via silver, which was causing dramatic levels of inflation in China, wrecking the economy. At...

  8. Why was ancient China more advanced than Europe ?

    Because we can't talk about "the Mongols" as some monolithic force. Genghis Khan originally intended to genocide the population of North China in order to turn the farmland into pasture for Mongol horses. His advisers convinced him that "tax farming" was more lucrative. Expansion under...

  9. Why was ancient China more advanced than Europe ?

    I'm sure the Mongol invasions hurt northern China tremendously in the short term. But the Yuan Dynasty pretty quickly worked to restore things to something like the old status quo. China under the Mongols was much more outward focused than China was before or after as well, which allowed for...

  10. Why was ancient China more advanced than Europe ?

    Part of it is just China had a greater head start. The Shang Dynasty was founded around 1,500 BC. This was a bit later than the earliest literate state in Europe (the Minoans) but roughly contemporaneous with Mycenaean Greece. Of course, during that period, Greek culture was more the furthest...

  11. Surviving neanderthals asb? (among other things)

    We also know that Neandertals at least visited, if not settled, islands in the Mediterranean (Aegean) which were never connected to the mainland, even during the Ice Ages. Hence it's possible you could get a stable breeding population of Neandertals in the Belares, Sardinia, Sicily, etc. And...

  12. Surviving neanderthals asb? (among other things)

    The best bet would be to somehow get them to Iceland before the Norse. This isn't totally ridiculous, given we know that archaic humans engaged in ocean journeys now with the discovery of very old stone tools in the Philippines. Unfortunately Iceland was basically completely covered in...

  13. With no (or limited) Islam how far west could Buddhism spread?

    I dunno. Buddhism was already on the decline and Hinduism was revitalizing by this period. I really don't think that a Buddhist Turkic invasion of India would be that much more successful at gaining converts than the Mughals were at spreading Islam. Arguably less so, because Buddhist...

  14. With no (or limited) Islam how far west could Buddhism spread?

    This is an interesting idea, but full Buddhification has to happen relatively late. I say this because the history of Buddhism is that it tends to transform formerly very martial nations into relatively peaceful ones. See the Tibetans and Mongols. IIRC Sumatra had basically entirely...

  15. With no (or limited) Islam how far west could Buddhism spread?

    IOTL Buddhism's western spread was ended through the rise of Islam. Pre-Islamic Afghanistan seems to have been majority Buddhist. Bactria and Margiana, and Central Asia more broadly appear to be areas of religious flux, where Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Manichaeists, and Nestorian Christians were...

  16. AHC: Indo-European migration into pre 1492 Americas

    Considering how far back Indo-European languages go, this is a pretty easy challenge. Here's how I would do it. First, we know that steppe invaders made it very far east in Asia. The Tocharians were obviously in the Tarim basin. Indo-European groups certainly migrated as far east as the...

  17. Lands of Red and Gold, Act II

    True, but those areas are generally considered to have had pre-state "chiefdoms," not full-on civilization.

  18. Lands of Red and Gold, Act II

    In the Andes, the potato was domesticated thousands of years prior to quinoa (or maize being introduced). But I suppose it's subject to interpretation when the Andean agricultural groups actually became states.

  19. Lands of Red and Gold, Act II

    Fantastic update. The one thing that surprises me is the passing references that slaves in Witte Stad are darker than Atjuntja. My presumption was most of the slaves going to Aururia were Malagasy. The coastal groups like the Betsimisaraka are quite Bantu-looking in their phenotype. The...

  20. Lands of Red and Gold, Act II

    This has to be one of the most subtle April Fools posts I've seen yet. Some of the names look a bit off for the setting (making me think you're making a pun here) but they don't ring a bell as anything in particular.
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