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  1. Not so invincible after all: Fastest declines of powerful dynasties and noble houses 1200-1500AD

    In 1331, the Houjou clan dominated Japan as they had for over a century, with the power to name both shogun and emperor (and crown prince) and whose direct vassals controlled about 25% of Japan's arable land. Although there were some problems arising internally, their rule seemed secure since...

  2. Rubber as part of the Columbian exchange/early rubber boom

    Interestingly, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera notes that rubber was produced using juice from a specific vine, and his works were available in Latin, French, German, and English by the mid-16th century. Along with other descriptions of rubber, I wonder if this could have spurred additional interest in...

  3. Effects on Cryptocurrency with no credit crunch and reasonable US debt to GDP rate.

    Bitcoin was a revolutionary advancement in that field since it was both decentralized AND was the first major use of a blockchain. It would have the same uses as previous digital currency, but without the shadier aspects of them. Then you also have to consider that a wide number of...

  4. Rubber as part of the Columbian exchange/early rubber boom

    Since there's been a few threads lately on this subject, I figured I'd start my own on some insights I found. Anyway, Rubber usage goes back millennia in Mesoamerica, where the Panama rubber tree Castilla elastica was tapped for its natural latex and processed into various goods such as balls...

  5. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan

    Thank you. I will extend it either this Thursday or next Thursday with the Chagatai's own civil war. That is correct. The Chagatai Khanate now dominates northern India until roughly the border of modern West Bengal, but doesn't extend too far south of the Ganges and Yamuna, and even in that...

  6. Would it be possible for the Viking age to continue until the 19th century?

    Denmark and the formerly Norse Scottish islands maybe, but one could imagine a pagan Sweden/Norway/Finland/Baltic remaining a continual threat to Christendom (and occasional trading partner of course) for quite some time just as the Barbary states did. The Barbary pirates did huge damage in the...

  7. Humanity II Ideas Thread

    I wonder how that would work. It's a giant swamp prone to severe hurricanes, but it's also an area rich in shellfish that permits sedentary civilisation in areas. And it can't really connect well with the Caribbean (beside the Bahamas) since the currents and winds blow out to the Atlantic, hence...

  8. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan

    Depends on a lot of factors. He's still alive for now. But many of his Sufi brethren have met their demise. That's certainly the case. They're still numerous and hold a lot of power, so Islam can still revive a lot of strength. In Magadha it would be rather relevant, since the Pithipatis have...

  9. Would it be possible for the Viking age to continue until the 19th century?

    Yes. Likely it would require a giant pagan Russia/Russia equivalent to the east. The Scandinavian market is too small for slave trading to be much of a thing and they'd have no ability to establish manpower-intensive industries in other colonies.

  10. WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?

    Which wasn't a problem in northern China or parts of Japan where wheat and millet were more common crops than rice. In medieval Japan, most peasants would rarely eat the rice they farmed since it was used for tribute, and said tribute was often sold to sake producers. Processing such a rubber...

  11. WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?

    Here's the problem--the natural rubber content in the Kazakh dandelion is about 8-10x lower than modern rubber trees. I am not certain how much less it is than Castilla elastica, the rubber source used in Mesoamerica, but it probably is quite a bit less since after all, nobody used these sources...

  12. What would the Nuclear Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 If Nobunaga Oda Survived?

    For all we know, it might be the benevolent and democratic Japan dropping an atomic bomb on a city of the extremist and brutal United States of America. So much could change.

  13. What if a Papuan Civilization existed In history?

    You do have to consider that Majapahit was the product of 2,000+ years of Indian cultural development in terms of statecraft and administration, and even regionally borrowed heavily from the traditions of how local Malay and Javanese states were governed (and IIRC also the Khmer Empire, the...

  14. Joint Crusade/Jihad against an non Abrahamic/Anti-Abrahamic threat?

    The Prester John legend was dying quickly in the 13th century, and the common perception thanks to Mongol invasions in Hungary and Poland was that they were soldiers of Gog and Magog (Europeans even believed the word "Mongol" came from Magog) set free as a prelude to the end of the world. The...

  15. What if Japan was a colonial super power before the 19th century?

    I agree the Tokugawa would not, but Oda very possibly could, and maybe Toyotomi as well, although he'd have to quell his ambitions regarding China. But in both cases, their colonial interests lay in Asia. Hawaii is awkward to reach from East Asia because the winds and currents go much north and...

  16. What if Japan was a colonial super power before the 19th century?

    The New World would likely be a net drain in resources and projects only backed by certain merchants. It's certainly possible.

  17. What if Japan was a colonial super power before the 19th century?

    The thing is that while Sengoku era Japan did have the capacity in terms of naval tech and institutions to do so, a mostly unknown continent populated by barbarians is going to way down on their list of priorities compared to Taiwan (which they actually planned to conquer), the Philippines...

  18. What if a Papuan Civilization existed In history?

    They wouldn't so much "come into contact" with them as much as butterfly their migration to eastern Indonesia and the Pacific. Some Papuan peoples were very good seafarers themselves and clearly were spreading west at the same time Austronesians were spreading east. They might reach as far as...

  19. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan
    Threadmarks: Chapter 43-War of the Holy Men

    -XLIII- "War of the Holy Men" Magadha, Lakhnauti Sultanate, November 1304 Ryouchuu gazed at the enemy army assembling in the plain by the river. They seemingly numbered ten thousand men, and he spied countless banners of the Sultan of Bengal. Horsemen and even those enormous elephant riders...

  20. Officially Nameless Country/Leadership/Ideology

    To be fair, that was OTL for many places. Many kingdoms were referred to by their people as "[King]'s country" or referred to by the primary seat of their ruler (often in foreign sources). This was common in India and Southeast Asia, and most historic states there are simply exonyms at best or...
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