Recent content by Salvador79

Yes, true. Avoiding June Days, for a start.

I must admit that I have no idea - other than to point at the fact that the absence of walls was not quite so uncommon. In the Danubian space, where mega-villages of more than 10,000 inhabitants existed in the late Cucuteni-Tripolye culture, a millennium earlier, settlements also weren't...

Now, I am somewhat skeptical as to your overall theory - while I do think social structures and system dynamics are key to understanding history, I am not sure how easily one can equate societies - categories always have their limitations. But as for Harappa, I have had similar thoughts before...

Thanks!! Well, stone bridges aren't built in a day...

Welcome back to the thread. Who doesn't cheer for the return of a reformed person?! I can only agree with you: This TL continues to be among the best on this forum, excellent world-building and writing by President Lincoln, but also an awesome community of readers commenting very civilly and...

1077 Chaos has engulfed large parts of central Europe. Not only have pope and emperor died, with the leaders of both clergy and worldly nobility so far unable to gather behind new candidates. More importantly, with thousands of aristocrats lying dead on the fields of Belfort and Modena (not to...

So far, I have not seen any indication that TL will be a lot more protectionist... it would have advantages and disadvantages, but I'll leave that up to our author! When I wrote about investments in higher and tertiary education and well-paid jobs in the service industry, I didn't think of...

This TL continues to be awesome!! Yeah, about that... OTL saw a centrist split-off from a rather militant Labour Party in the form of the SDP, later to merge with the Liberals into LibDem. ITTL, Labour seems to steer a solid centre-left course, and Foot and Benn have just been made political...

Those are interesting points... more questions from me, because this intrigues me: I suppose, then, that the Romanian Securitate must be counted among the most avid adopters of this same doctrine as the MfS? (Would a less psychological-warfare-inclined Stasi also butterfly the psychological...

This is an interesting idea! How much would and could GDR policies really change, though? Maybe a few churches don't get demolished, maybe the RIAS Trials don't end with death penalties - but on the whole, it would still be very recognisably the dictatorship we know, wouldn't it?

Sorry, had to write against your wish here... I've left the empire without a pope, nor emperor. Now this is a situation that cannot last too long, of course. Next year's update will bring us closer to the resolution of this conflict before the focus of attention will move elsewhere again in the...

1076 King Sweyn of Denmark dies. From among his two sons, the nobles of the realm choose Harald over Cnut as the new King. Harald supports the continuation of good relations with England and the Holy Roman Empire and common efforts at subduing the pagan Slavs on the Southern shore of the...

Before I updated this thread (seeing only the first couple of postings from yesterday), I would have said: COME ON GUYS, it's true that Putin is the aggressor in Ukraine and is posing his Russia as the counterpole to Westernness, but does that really justify using such a kind of blatant...

1075 Counter-Pope Clemens III. is poisoned and dies in Ravenna. Thousands of pagan Liuticians raid and plunder Saxony’s Eastern margraviate in an attack instigated, as turns out, by Boleslaw the Bold, who enters Bohemia with another army, attempting to free his brother in Prague. Vratislav’s...

Your feedback always makes my day - thank you so much! The English are way beyond payback against Normandy (that happened in 1067) - they are treating it like they're treating Wales (and, to a much lesser extent, Ireland): supporting their side against others, i.e. creating dependency, and...