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  1. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    The Indo-Europeans were probably the second culture to acquire horses (after the Botai culture) but I'm not sure how big of a military advantage this was. These were early horses, plus no saddles or stirrups, not even war-chariots until the late 3rd millennium BCE, well after Sumerian and...

  2. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Some of my favorite timelines on this site is a very small change causing a chain reaction that changes large regions of the world. So recently I've been reading about the domestication of animals in the family of Bovidae (cattle, sheep, goats, water buffalo etc.) and I think the animal that...

  3. WI: Indo-Iranians head to China

    The Indo-Europeans basically committed Gendercide on the Neolithic populations of Europe and the North Indian Plain. The prior male haplogroups of G and H/L were almost completely replaced by Indo-European R haplogroups. A completely different approach from later Indo-European and Turko-Mongol...

  4. WI: Indo-Iranians head to China

    The earliest this could have happened is maybe the Shang Dynasty? I don't see how this could happen, the Shang dynasty was a strong power that would have crushed any Indo-Iranian nomads. It took the Xiongnu pioneering an Imperial steppe state (far more centralized and sophisticated compared to...

  5. Why did slavery become so important in the Greco-Roman world, and why did it end when and how it did?

    The Isreali historian Yuval Noah Harari also noticed how much Greco-Roman society depended on slaves compared to their contemporaries. So he basically divided ancient societies, in his book Sapiens, into "Slave-Societies" (Rome and Greece), and "Societies with Slaves" (China, India, Persia)...

  6. From which point on did OTL become a Eurowank?

    The discovery of the Americas gave the Europeans two entire continents filled with natural resources, with natives that could be devastated by simple contact with Europeans due to disease, something no other old world power had. Even better, none of the other old world powers tried to fight...

  7. Did Confucianism play a role is Chinese stagnation?

    I've always had doubts about the idea that confucianism stagnated China. The two Chinese dynasties that had the largest number of inventions and technological developments, the Han and the Song, were both heavily confucian. The Song dynasty especially is famous for being probably the most...
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