>100 Years War never happens >Some French guy sets sail for Asia >Lands in the Americas >Somehow news reaches Japan >the various Japanese fiefdoms all rush to colonize the New World
It makes complete sense.
A Japanese colonization of the New World would be really interesting, I'm curious how Japanese religious traditions would syncretize with Native American religious traditions. I feel like there would be a lot more harmony between Japanese Shinto-influenced Buddhism and, say, Navajo religion (because they'd be hitting from the west coast)
Low-tech Arcadian-style utopias are even more laughable and unrelalistic than high-tech post-cyberpunk ones
Just ask a farmer, they all say its hard work
And how do plan to give 8 billion people enough space to live on farms? How about technological developement? It's fine if you're ready to pay the cost, but there would be massive drops in living standards in order to achieve what you want.
The world has plenty of open space, we could cram all 8 billion of those people into New York City if they were all standing shoulder to shoulder with eachother and occupied every single street and building at once. We just aren't using the space we havr as efficiently. Everyone on Earth could have a single family home and there would still be plenty of open space.
I also think that the population of a country shouldn't increase all the time. Control of population is key to have a good country and have enough space and resources for everyone.
Resources are finite so there's no reason to think population should grow forever, although modern people are arrogant enough to think they're unique and won't hit a ceiling where a crisis happen because tech development can't outpace populational growth (that's already happening in some areas, in IT for example software has stopped evolving and been riding on the coattails of hardware for some years now, that can't happen forever). Then there's how not everyone needs to live in the countryside, go be a city bugman if you want to, just leave countryside people the fuck alone.
Hear me out: Charlemagne sets aside stupid Frankish legal codes and says that all of his lands will be inherited by his eldest son, and the eldest son of each Emperor thereafter. This rule stands and the Carolingian empire doesn't break up into a bunch of squabbling kingdoms like they did in real life.
Look at Capetian France and you’ll have your answer : it would devolve anyway into a feudal system as Comes charges become hereditary, but with even more aggressive adventuring by second sons of aristocratic families. Now imagine French feudal society at the scale of a continent two centuries in advance : that’s a lot of disenfranchised children from an aristocratic warrior background. I’d imagine there would have been norman-like expeditions left and right and proto crusades into slavic lands and Al’Andalus on a regular basis, leading to faster christianisation of the east and an expedient reconquista, with Spain ruled from Barcelona and a catalan-frankish elite (no Portugal either depending on how quickly the reconquista happens).
They would eventually find themselves in the service of the Byzantines right in the middle or the Macedonian resurgence, potentially leading either to disaster in Byzantium, or on the contrary even more successful campaigns in the levant and Egypt, helping to consolidate the Empire or ruining it completely. That is, if they don’t take a stab at it and southern Italy beforehand
It doomed western and central Europe, which is the most productive region of the world in term of scientific achievements, to constant wars, which slowed down the progress of mankind.
The actually opposite, retard. Balkanization created competition between the various local powers, thus pushing developement.
There is a reason the HRE was the most advanced area in mainland Europe, while China stagnated as a single giant unified blob
I don't think Japs would dominate in that world but that's just me
>100 Years War never happens
>Some French guy sets sail for Asia
>Lands in the Americas
>Somehow news reaches Japan
>the various Japanese fiefdoms all rush to colonize the New World
It makes complete sense.
A Japanese colonization of the New World would be really interesting, I'm curious how Japanese religious traditions would syncretize with Native American religious traditions. I feel like there would be a lot more harmony between Japanese Shinto-influenced Buddhism and, say, Navajo religion (because they'd be hitting from the west coast)
I really want to make this Alt-His, but I'm very ignorant of prePerry Japanese history.
Just play EU4 and you'll get the gist
I still prefer EU3. But either way. I don't trust PDX with non-Western historical integrity.
It looks like Hell. I prefer living in a house in a rural place surrounded by natural spaces not that shit of megacities.
Alternatively, here's a take on a more specific and interesting discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIJ6xIkMMb0
People like OP are the natural product of the ignorant and shallow world we live in, urbanites are perfect cannon fodder.
Low-tech Arcadian-style utopias are even more laughable and unrelalistic than high-tech post-cyberpunk ones
Just ask a farmer, they all say its hard work
I still prefer to live in a farm surrounded by natural landscapes and animals that in a nightmare megacity full of artificial things like OP's image.
And how do plan to give 8 billion people enough space to live on farms? How about technological developement? It's fine if you're ready to pay the cost, but there would be massive drops in living standards in order to achieve what you want.
The world has plenty of open space, we could cram all 8 billion of those people into New York City if they were all standing shoulder to shoulder with eachother and occupied every single street and building at once. We just aren't using the space we havr as efficiently. Everyone on Earth could have a single family home and there would still be plenty of open space.
I also think that the population of a country shouldn't increase all the time. Control of population is key to have a good country and have enough space and resources for everyone.
Resources are finite so there's no reason to think population should grow forever, although modern people are arrogant enough to think they're unique and won't hit a ceiling where a crisis happen because tech development can't outpace populational growth (that's already happening in some areas, in IT for example software has stopped evolving and been riding on the coattails of hardware for some years now, that can't happen forever). Then there's how not everyone needs to live in the countryside, go be a city bugman if you want to, just leave countryside people the fuck alone.
Hear me out: Charlemagne sets aside stupid Frankish legal codes and says that all of his lands will be inherited by his eldest son, and the eldest son of each Emperor thereafter. This rule stands and the Carolingian empire doesn't break up into a bunch of squabbling kingdoms like they did in real life.
How does history change?
Look at Capetian France and you’ll have your answer : it would devolve anyway into a feudal system as Comes charges become hereditary, but with even more aggressive adventuring by second sons of aristocratic families. Now imagine French feudal society at the scale of a continent two centuries in advance : that’s a lot of disenfranchised children from an aristocratic warrior background. I’d imagine there would have been norman-like expeditions left and right and proto crusades into slavic lands and Al’Andalus on a regular basis, leading to faster christianisation of the east and an expedient reconquista, with Spain ruled from Barcelona and a catalan-frankish elite (no Portugal either depending on how quickly the reconquista happens).
They would eventually find themselves in the service of the Byzantines right in the middle or the Macedonian resurgence, potentially leading either to disaster in Byzantium, or on the contrary even more successful campaigns in the levant and Egypt, helping to consolidate the Empire or ruining it completely. That is, if they don’t take a stab at it and southern Italy beforehand
>may 8 2118
How did Frankish inheritance law slow the passage of time?
It doomed western and central Europe, which is the most productive region of the world in term of scientific achievements, to constant wars, which slowed down the progress of mankind.
>which slowed down the progress of mankind.
So it's a good thing.
The actually opposite, retard. Balkanization created competition between the various local powers, thus pushing developement.
There is a reason the HRE was the most advanced area in mainland Europe, while China stagnated as a single giant unified blob
These guys were linked to Japanese by some archaeologists actually
I hate the Karolingians and Merovingians so fucking much. Those bastards likely extended the dark ages by centuries with their stupidity.
But it's all the women in my life that wont shutup about safety these days.
The world couldn't be more 'safe'!
Even as a kid : "Have you got lights on your bike? It can be dark out...."
FFFFffffuck sake.