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  1. Social progress - inevitable logic of history or fluke?

    Could you give an example? No problem, I'm glad you actually did come back to it. I'll parenthesy anything regarding science, as you've said we aren't talking about that. Whether things happen near the end of a period should not matter, and in regards to social changes it should actually...

  2. Survival of the Western Roman Empire

    Then give him another son. He doesn't have to be a great emperor like his father, just Imperially average. better than Commodus.

  3. Social progress - inevitable logic of history or fluke?

    Aye, but there were also improvements in worker's rights, business regulation, and legitimate medical science, and all the aforementioned stuff. You have to take the good and the bad, you cannot look only at one.

  4. Social progress - inevitable logic of history or fluke?

    Let's look at Japan. They are a bona-fide first world nation. However, they routinely see people work themselves to death. Is this better than a relatively affluent industrial or pre-industrial nation?

  5. Technology POD's

    I meant lengthwise Fair point. Still, round projections are better, right?

  6. Technology POD's

    How exactly is that 'true'? Antarctica is still bigger than Europe.

  7. Technology POD's

    The Publishing of Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish was an amazing scientist who discovered many very important chemistry things 50+ years before their namesakes did, but never published anything because 1. He was extremely rich & didn't have to 2. He was shy 3. He was extremely socially...

  8. Female Legionaries

    What if you had them as a unit that was not a basic legion? As already stated the police (dealing mostly with burglary, fire, and town watching, only being auxiliaries for violent crime & riots), but what of a bow/sling unit, a ballista unit, a mounted unit, etc? I understand generally legions...

  9. AH Cultural Descriptions

    A heartwarming Amerique classic about the struggle of A group of Louisiana slaves who go on an epic journey up the Mississippi to find one of the main character's father. Along the way they face various trials and nearly face capture, but eventually their freedom is bought by a rich abolitionist...

  10. Technology POD's

    I suppose it doesn't matter if we disagree on whether it was intuitive, as we agree that it is easily plausible for any TL that wants it.

  11. AH Cultural Descriptions

    The Bible of the Radical Darwinist movement, this testament to survival of the strong inspired many to abandon society and live ferally, and many others to revolt agaisnt ineffective governments. It is supposed that it may have influenced many of the 1920's eugenics programs. The Roman Radio

  12. AH Cultural Descriptions

    A soviet propagandistic tale of the ~800 women who organized the resistance against the Japanese in Vladivostok The Tablets of Samarkand Edit: Ok, twice in two sets of replies so far in this thread. Just go with the first in all double-cases, I suppose.

  13. Technology POD's

    Firstly, glass was Egyptian? Second, lenses aren't exactly intuitive. They are apparent enough that a TL with earlier discovery, even in antiquity, is easily plausible; but the fact that the did not appear OTL should not be surprising.

  14. AHC: US president is impeached for murder

    Something on the lines of a shadow player rigging the Hamilton-Burr duel in Hamilton's favor, and him taking the blame? Edit: Why did I think Hamilton president? Cranial flatulence, I suppose.

  15. Best way to nerf the Arabs without preempting Islam?

    What if a significant portion of southern or eastern Arabia remains of another religion?

  16. Great Men of History

    Right then, I want it explained what the conditions were that allowed Temujin to simply fall into a nearly pan-Asian empire. Edit; that sounds ridiculing and demanding, sorry.

  17. Great Men of History

    Sometimes in history, it seems like there are people so blessed by their respective god(s) with talent and resources it's funny. Alexander and Temujin are the prime examples. Now, I have two lines of inquiry. One, are these great men (and at least one woman) really responsible for their success...

  18. Female Legionaries

    Very well; then we have agreement that women could comprise a part of the police force in some cities?

  19. Female Legionaries

    Certainly, but I never said anything about the entire force being female.

  20. Female Legionaries

    Learning every day... Not an entirely invalid point, but 1) Squads of 2) men and 3) women trained with weaponry and armor, in individual combat 4) all chosen based upon equal physical criteria obviously this would make women a fairly small percentage of the force, but, goddammit, it's...
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