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  1. Why american empires?

    Basically, if you've got enough personal power to just say that you're a monarch now and force people to go along with it, you also have enough personal power to choose which kind of monarch. Y'know, hence "Emperor of Haiti." The post-independance states of the Americas are all colonial regeims...

  2. The Light of The North (Norse TL)

    I enjoyed the talk of religious syncretism. Its always rewarding, I find, to compare notes in good faith like this.

  3. The Light of The North (Norse TL)

    There's significant debate about what exactly happened to Greenland. The issue is essentially Iceland didn't give enough of a shit to note down whenever whatever happened happened ( let along what) so we've kinda gotta try and piece things together from context clues. The timeline is somewhat...

  4. The Light of The North (Norse TL)

    Tell that to the Turks, the Japanese, the Tunisians, the Vietnamese, the Egyptians, the Bengali, the Rajput, the Tartars, the... Just because christianity had some unlikely successes in their attempts to eradicate all outside thinking doesn't mean that they get a +30% modifier to construction...

  5. American Viking: a timeline

    Yikes. Christians managing to convert higher ups in local leadership is always a portent of impending pogroms against nonbelievers. The Wampanoag are about to see what the White Christ does once they have the power to do whatever they want.

  6. Native American Survival Chances

    No. Plenty of other religions have done that throughout history. You point to the Assyrians, who I agree are a fantastic example. I might also point to Zoroastrianism under certain persian regimes. Hinduism and Buddhism have both had shades of this at various times, including today as I...

  7. Native American Survival Chances

    Yes. The Incans had the best architectural technology on the planet. The Aztecs had nigh-modern sanitation while the Europeans were living like pigs. Native groups across the americas had advanced medicinal technology, and trade routes bound the continents together. To keep the natives down...

  8. DBWI: Disney continues Star Wars instead of rebooting it

    Lets be honest, who from the original trilogy are they going to have? Ford hated playing Solo and wouldn't come back if they put a gun to his head. Fisher had that whole blowout with Disney back in 2016 (please don't start that debate back up again here, I'm just using it to demonstrate a...

  9. Why didn't Qing Dynasty industrialize?

    It didn't help that the Qing Empire was minority-ruled, and the Manchu predicated their military dominance of the Empire on tactics that were rendered obsolete by Industrial technology. So there was a certain degree of the Imperial Bureaucracy not wanting to Industrialize, because that could...

  10. Persian invasion during the Peloponnesian War

    They absolutely could, but I don't see why they would want to. Their primary reason to invade Greece in the first place was because they wanted to make the Greeks stop meddling with Ionia, not because there was anything valuable in Greece. By simple continuing to fund the Peloponnesian war as...

  11. American Viking: a timeline

    Greenland didn't really fall apart until Portuguese expansion in africa undercut Greenland's ivory trade and rendered the outposts financially nonviable. The flip side of that coin is that Greenland isn't really workable as a serious resource supplier because they need to import everything too...

  12. Ancient Egypt Stays to this day (Batlle of Actium)

    Oi, fight me! Cleopatra had that place running like clockwork! But yeah, while I disagree with a few of the minor details of your post, big picture I am one-hundred-percent with you. The butterfly-nets in place here are certifiably insane.

  13. American Viking: a timeline

    I like that you know enough to be aware that Vinland was discovered in the era of heavy christianization in the North, and the expedition was even led by christians. I appreciate your attention to historical accuracy, a lot of people would have overlooked or ignored that. This is not to say...

  14. Russia topples Qing in the 1790s/1800s

    Will have. The Qing will have tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Decades from now. At their onset. It will take a half century of continuous festering before these weaknesses become terminal, such is the great strength of the Qing at the onset of their problems. Which is decades from...

  15. Russia topples Qing in the 1790s/1800s

    To quote Napoleon, "China is a sleeping giant. Let her slumber, for when she wakes she shall shake the world." This scenario is flatly impossible. The Qing were still King in 1800, and any attempt to dislodge them at that time would have been the mother of all uphill battles. And that's...

  16. AHC:Fundamentalist Christian nation (POD after 1800)

    A lot of people are coming at this from the angle of finding a fundementalist christian regime and looking for a way for them to become more intolerant. What about the opposite angle? Wasn't there a genocide of Muslims in Bosnia not too long ago? Find a way to make the murderers more...

  17. Mongol empire

    Not necessarily, if you believe her critics. Forced conversions, failure to sterilize medical equipment, mismanagement of donations, speaking openly about poor-people-suffering being a good thing, the list goes on. You could find a fair few great conquers who fit that bill. Although yeah, still...

  18. What if while the Germanic faith was at it’s greatest extent it reformed into an organized religion

    Well, the royal you. Well, there'll be some good potential Plot to work with from all the many Germanic Heathens whom are not under Clovis's control, and how they feel about things. Some accepting the authority of Clovis's church structure, others ignoring the arrogance of the Franks, thinking...

  19. What if while the Germanic faith was at it’s greatest extent it reformed into an organized religion

    Possible? Yes; he was converted to Christianity by his wife historically, so replacing her with a Heathen would be good first step if you wanted Clovis to preform the codification. He'd still need to be convinced somehow that a codification was necessary. Perhaps a christian missionary who...

  20. What if while the Germanic faith was at it’s greatest extent it reformed into an organized religion

    It would take an Emperor. A powerful Emperor who worshiped the Æsir and whose lands covered much (but by absolutely no means all) of the range of the religion. I mean, that's what it took to reform the proto-Christians into a remotely consolidated religion agreed upon scripture. I don't see why...
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