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  1. Thesaurus Rex

    WI: Alternate Name for the United States

    Alas, we really took the spotlight of all the other American nations by calling ourselves "America" and "Americans". Of course, it was never really meant to be that way (we were only a United States first, and America happened to be its location), but semantics took the upper hand eventually...
  2. Thesaurus Rex

    WI: Austronesians bring goats instead of pigs

    IOTL, according to this domestic goats only really became present in Southeast Asia when Indian people, trade and influence came to the region. In another time, goats manage to spread to East Asia much earlier and become popular enough to be adopted by the earliest pre-migration Austronesians...
  3. Thesaurus Rex

    DBWI/AHC: ROMAN CURSIVE SCRIPT NEVER FADES FROM USE

    HI ALL. SO THE ROMANS HAD THEIR INFORMAL CURSIVE SCRIPT FOR CENTURIES UNTIL THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE, BUT IT NEVER REALLY TRAVELED FURTHER THAN THAT. PROBABLY BECAUSE IT'S SO HARD TO READ FOR SOME PEOPLE, BUT WOULD SEEM TO BE EASIER AND QUICKER TO WRITE. WHAT IF IT CONTINUED TO DEVELOP...
  4. Thesaurus Rex

    Is civilization destined to advance technologically and politically?

    (Civilization as defined as a certain culture of civilization, not necessarily a specific nation, and a well-settled civilization at that) I've been thinking about this for a long time. It's comparatively easy to build a civilization in one's TL, even from 'scratch'. Another thing is to do...
  5. Thesaurus Rex

    ITTL (likely localized) semidomestication of elk?

    (This is the right subforum to put this in, right? All the others didn't seem fitting for this thread.) Out of boredom a long time ago I googled a bunch of non-standard animals to see if they were farmed, like bison, moose, ostrich, and elk. As it turns out, elk are pretty readily...
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