Recent content by Midas

You're describing the Ottoman Empire of OTL. Many of its Emperors had non-Turkic stock in them, Jews and Christians held massively important positions throughout the realm and were treated far better than Muslims or Jews were in Christian realms even really until modern times. You realize that...

Found here, there was a proposal by the British to placate American demands for harbors by giving them the Olympic Peninsula essentially (a triangle around it really). In my TL, I'm assuming temporarily this is the border. In this TL also, the U.S. is not going to end up with California.. or any...

iirc from my understanding, the principle violation was the perversion of the Judaic values of hospitality (i.e. raping and stealing from their guests, etc.) The bit on whether it was a condemnation of homosexuality is fairly suspect and reinterpreted later, since there was plenty of...

He's one of the few 'mainstream' AH writers, if he can even be called that, who publishes stuff with some remote resemblance to what we do on here. Perhaps published stuff. He also publishes on so many topics and works with parallelism, not necessarily AH the whole way through, that it tends...

Assuming this retains some changes to the Articles of Confederation that make it a bit more workable long-term, I don't think they'd be a "world power" in the military interventionist use of the term, but they could become a financial powerhouse (an über-Switzerland), key leader in international...

Suppose the Ottoman Empire endures WWI; either by staying neutral, or perhaps a slightly earlier PoD à-la Abdul's old stuff- whatever. There's no pulling them apart, nationalism is contained or directed more towards the state and it encompasses its historical borders. Now as I understand it...

They'd probably want to participate in the Trans-Atlantic slave-trade, which would require a more powerful Arab/Red Sea-region World- whom they would likely have more contacts with these than Europeans unless we assume geological PoDs. I suppose the other plausible alternative is some sort...

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I wrote this some time ago, post it and got no reviews/posts (mods can delete it if they'd like, this is similar). I've edited it, re-done and touched up many parts and plan to release it again as a second attempt at it. It will cover the history of medieval Spain, aprox. from 11th to 12th...

Well, not to be a jackass but Socrates was forgotten. All we have of him is Plato and some scattered other records. :D

Uh.. I have to disagree here. Manitoba isn't really a possibility until after the 1800s. Ontario and Nova Scotia would be a lot bigger earlier on with more Loyalist settlement, and it would lead to an earlier expansion into Manitoba but not expansion to there right away. The reason is...

I don't think the PoD is sufficient to take Quebec. The goals in that particular battle were for Montgomery and Arnold to meet up in the lower part of the city and scale the walls after clearing it out, but unfortunately they could only do this under the cover of a snowstorm otherwise the...

Wage-slavery is more ideologically salient, effective and peripheral that the actual institutions promoting it don't get caught. I think it beats out chattel slavery in the long run.

Most of this tl;dr. It's an Ameriwank or an Ameriscrew if you think it is, but those definitions are in and of themselves completely limiting. Real life is an Ottoscrew, an Anglowank post-WWII, a Jewscrew, a Chamscrew, etc. Judge a TL's on its merits, don't be obsessed with creating some...

That's just because you're reading it from the context of a person very dissociated from the original literature. The Avestas and Vedas are very close in their original rituals, but differ as Flo said on their interpretation of theology (in particular issues of Gods). The Avestas were heavily...