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  1. AH challenge: Stoicism managed to bring the downfall of slavery in rome

    It seems to me that the elimination of slavery requires a basic change that gives an advantage to the small 'free farmer' and free citizen, such as the early discovery / invention of the horse collar. If the small farmer to put more land under cultivation without having to rely on slaves, he...

  2. Required Reading ATL

    What is everyone's "Required Reading List" for ATL Fiction and Non-Fiction? I know mine would include among others: Lest Darkness Fall - L. Sprague DeCamp: in my mind one of the best for both readability, humor and research. Lord Kalvan - H.Beam Piper: I like about everything this guy...

  3. Education Stops Fall of Rome

    Thank you for bringing up this point. Rome didn't fall because of a lack of knowledge, Rome fell (among a whole lot of other reasons) because the basis for much of its power was slavery and as we know today, the more power you consume, the wealthier you are. To make a very complicated issue...

  4. Tolbiac: Frankish defeat!!

    If Franks are defeated, then almost certainly Burgundy is almost certainly not going to be some 40 years later. This leaves an East Germanic continuum from Italy (Ostrogoths) through parts of Switzerland and Eastern France (Burgunds), Parts of Southern France and Northern Spain (Visigoths)...

  5. Tolbiac: Frankish defeat!!

    Thanks, that is what I meant. By the way, those are great maps.

  6. Tolbiac: Frankish defeat!!

    1. I suspect that the linguistic border between the Germanic speakers and 'French' would be further south. 2. Because I am partial to the Goths, I would also like to believe that a Gothic-Speaking state might exist somewhere in the highlands of OTL France, maybe Southwest of Switzerland...

  7. Which Founder's Death Would Be Most Significant?

    Has to be Washington. Not because he was a great general or anything, I suspect that Benidict Arnold and Nathaniel Greene were both better, but because of what he did as President when he stepped down after two terms. Without this example and precedent it established, there is no doubt in...

  8. WI Romans were defeated in the battle of Medway in 43 AD?

    I suspect that Rome would have tried again, after all, Britain had the tin mines that Rome wanted. Regardless, it is my opinion that I seem to recall that a large part of Rome's power was economic and cultural. I wonder if the British Isles might not have become Romanized even if Rome...

  9. No Rome?

    My guess No Rome, you probably have an expanding Celtic influence, at first somewhat fractured, but as the tribes learn of the wealth in the peninsula, more tribes move south. Northern Italy almost certainly becomes more Celtic, probably a larger kingdom. In the long run I believe without...

  10. AH Challenge: Another Anglophone Commonwealth Nation

    How about the Dominion of Texas? Couple of different ways: 1: 54-40 blows up and the US and GB come to blows. A compromise is struck and Texas goes to GB. 2: GB intervenes in the Mexican War, then, after winning, decides to keep Texas as a protectorate state, which late evolves into...

  11. Evolution WI: Homo goes extinct, Paranthropus lives.

    I seem to remember that the fossil evidence suggests that there were several different species of austropithicus around in those days, so even if Homo went extinct, I'm certain one of the other species would have stepped forward. But even Paranthropus, if it follows the pattern of other...

  12. Mummies of the Tarim Basin

    Still, it is interesting to speculate --- What I recall about the Tocarian culture is that it was badly placed, desertification of the area caused high death rates which made the people particularly suseptible to cultural 'extinction' (leaving genetics out). It is interesting to speculate...

  13. WI:Polish-Soviet War, Soviets dont retreat from Ukraine

    It is interesting how history repeats itself with a twist. In 1949 it was the Polish and Ukrainian armies that needed to make the decision whether to withdraw from their positions in the city, while 18 years later it was the Soviet armies that had to make the decision. Still, it is said that...

  14. An anglofied India?

    Now this is a thought that truely shakes the foundations of the world.

  15. An anglofied India?

    I never really went away, just turned my attention to a new job and getting some things written. To be honest I just burned out a bit.

  16. An anglofied India?

    What if the English, sensing that the US will be a competitor-nation, chooses not to permit emigration of the Irish to the New World, and instead channels much of the 'excess population' caused by the potato famine into India along with many of the cpnvicts sent off to Australia? Perhaps not...

  17. Scandinavian Britain

    What if sea trade were more active starting at 500 AD? What if after the Angles Saxons and Jutes arrived, there was more active commerce throughout the area, with marriages and close 'cultural' contacts between England and Denmark / Scandanavia? The existance of a sort of brighter Dark Age in...

  18. all out Nuclear war.

    There are several studies on the internet from the late 70's that outline some of the effects, that I found interesting. see: http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/7906/ and another at http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Effects/wenw_chp2.shtml (hopefully the links will work) What I found...

  19. WI the greeks had won the battle of corinth

    From the discussion it appears tha the POD has to be the rise of a personality who can unify the Greeks, maybe someone who can lay claim to the mantle of Alexander the Great. If some such person arises and somehow cobbles together a victory, then, on the strength of that victory, he might...

  20. Norsean Ireland

    Possible butterflys I am assuming that the 'window' of inflicting Ireland with enough Norse settlers to cause Ireland to become Norse would be from the late 700's through to about 850. It is my opinion that after that you get too much happening on the continent to get numbers large enough to...
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