It's pretty well known history that the Mongol Conquests of China and the Middle East brought the Islamic Golden Age and the advanced Song Empire to an end. It took 300 years for them to recover. Mongolians burning down Rome, Paris and Prague would almost certainly do the same thing. The...
The Mongols would have devastated Europe and killed probably 20 to 30 percent of all people on the subcontinent. Definite decline in terms of cultural capital.
Very nice. I've been doing some research into a similar timeline either with Felix Swartzenburg living or a victory at Sadowa. Not sure if that big of a prussia would really stay out of a German Union for long though. Berlin would want in while Konigsberg wouldn't.
Slaves in the military is fine for the Assyrians and Romans, but this is the 1830's we are talking about, the military is a modern force where the soldiers are trained and paid well and are expected to be a professional force. Throwing slaves into the army isn't exactly a progressive thing.
I think the key is to get better, less conservative governance everywhere. Something more democratic early enough to fight the natural occurence of full scale independence nationalism. I can see federalism as a good fight against that while allowing all the benefits that people who were fighting...
Why can't anybody give a good reason why France's demographics dropped off? There are a lot of theories but no answers. Its wierd and frustrating; mostly becuase I'd love to come up with a TL where they keep growing. Something like 90 to 100 million Frenchman would be interesting.
Interesting. So insteado f a Frenhc revolutionary state that dominates Europe, we have a Frenhc Civil War along the same broad lines as the English Civil War? Should be good... I look forward to more.
I mean it obviously is quite silly. But he does take most of from real-life plans. And if he really shows how overstretched the Japanese are, and if a real invasion of the West Coast is ruled out of the question, I could see that not being too implausible.
I like description of the proto-libertarian and Racist ideas, without going overboard. Also, the architctecture really helps as well to visualize a slowly developing Draka culture. I look forward to more Butterflies.
Right those butterflies are all well and good, but the people, the people. John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln are close to being fine, given that thier parents were born. But that list of parliamentary leaders of America is painfully convergent, thats all. You just changed some dates around...