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  1. Victoria II

    But that isn’t advantageous, the earlier you fight the Yanks for the first timen the smaller the gap will be (unless it’s really late game). I Usually disband the irregulars, Build up as fast as I can so the Tejans don’t add a war goal, and then retreat to make the Yanks take high attrition...

  2. Victoria II

    Man, you are up to a good start! Managing to annex Tejas was really hard for me in my Mexico game. Those Yanks have a huge man power pool. I wasn’t able to get a favorable peace with the yanks till 1850, 14 years of war that nearly broke my economy... luckily New England and the CSA formed later...

  3. Slaves, sex and souterners

    Man, I’m sorry if it appeared I was doing that. I was just pointing out that in some cases It wasn’t only up to the individual, but governmental institutions often made it difficult for slave owners to free their slaves. That is not to say that one can find loopholes in that sort of system in...

  4. Slaves, sex and souterners

    Not necessarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumission

  5. Theology: Did Calvinism take over Protestantism?

    My gut reaction was “Dawkins seems Calvinist enough.”, because: That doctrine of the Calvinists seems to be well and alive amongst modern intellectuals, even atheist ones...

  6. AHC: Native Americans discover Europe

    probably a bit off topic... But the OP reminded me of a very good short story by Mike Flynn. http://www.tor.com/2011/05/04/the-iron-shirts/#comment-185876 It involves a horse un-extinction POV I know of several “European” markers found in American Indians. The consensus is, they...

  7. Linguistic Development of Latin in Surviving Roman Empire

    I know near nothing of linguistics, so I am talking(typing) out of my ass, but I think vernacular Latin may become simplified. To quote someone who is a linguist on the development of languages that were OTL in a situation similar to this ALT Latin...

  8. War Chimps?

    Humans are not at all in such a relationship with chimps, different species, man. They are not even in the same genus. While proving domestication in Humans may not be a trivial issue, chimps and bonobos have diverged for quite a long time, and we have access to specimens of both, comparisons...

  9. WI: No Native American civilizations

    This is very important. Without the price revolution, the global balance of power may remain the same for a few more centuries if not indefinitely. All those conquistadores may try their luck in Spain’s European armies; we will also see a more populated Castile by as much as 1/3. So Spanish...

  10. War Chimps?

    The OP reminds me of a mayor plot point in the Freefall web comic: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2600/fv02530.htm Bonobo Chimps are semi-domestic Chimps, just like Present day humans are semi-domestic humans, they both have smaller brains weaker bones, a more mellow temperament, etc...

  11. Mathematical what-ifs

    I never even considered that, most articles I have read seem to consider an analogical related to comparisons(ordinal), the number line(cardinal), and a third system relating to verbalization… it is not hard to imagine a language were this third mechanism for number perception plays a more...

  12. Mathematical what-ifs

    Really? I’m honestly baffled, I have ordered food in fractions, when at the market, since I have been ordering foodstuffs at the market… 250 of something seems like a lot more words than one forth, particularly in French… I can take that as another task, other than the previously mentioned...

  13. Mathematical what-ifs

    Well yhea, when it comes to anything meaningful, base is meaningless. So when comparing bases we must focus on things were their differences mater, every day arithmetic, measures, and commercial transactions, etc. Humans think of quantity ordinal rather than cardinally. That is why halves...

  14. Mathematical what-ifs

    Well, some people in south Asia use base 12, like some people have previously pointed out, it is actually superior to base 10. This SETI Talk comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MV65airaPA There is a pattern in in the last 2 digits of squares, so that in decimal, 26^2 has the...

  15. AHC/WI: Latest POD for a 21st century dominated only by nonWestern Superpower(s)

    I call your Pomeranz, and raise you a California School of Economic History. Just to be annoying and to show that this matter is far from settled. I think it is too early to have an opinion one way or the other. But yhea, one of Europe’s main advantages was the existence of state backed...

  16. Tsar Abdul Abulbul Ameer?

    I think I might have phrased my question incorrectly, why was it that way? Was it because unlike in China or Iran there wasn’t any centralized burocracy previous to the Mongols for them to overtake? Was Russian terrain too difficult for them? Now this is a very good explanation. That seems to...

  17. Tsar Abdul Abulbul Ameer?

    This is an interesting concern, now that I think about it; the administration in most Mongol successor states was native, and they ended up assimilating. Northern Russia lacked such administrative structures, and the pontic steppe favored a similar passionaria(sp?) as their home regions, causing...

  18. Tsar Abdul Abulbul Ameer?

    My example were Arab influences in Iran and central Asia which are, insignificant demographically, linguistically to between 10-20% of words, and culturally, aside from Islam Arabs were the ones who assimilated rather than the other way around. My proposal was then nowhere as radical as you may...

  19. Stopping/Severly Slowing Old World Agriculture

    Maize was domesticated in the Mexican highlands. Those are what they call a temperate zone, with oaks, junipers, pine trees, even some fir species (albeit admittedly the range of the latter is limited). You can grow peaches, apples, plums and cherry trees in that climate; all these are far more...

  20. Tsar Abdul Abulbul Ameer?

    I wonder what song is that. Any way, a Tartar POD may work. They did nominally rule Russia for 200+ years during most of which it was mostly Turik in demographics(The Horde not Russia), maybe there is a higher inflow of Turks with an urban tradition/construction of Tartar cities, probably...
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