By the way I have been reading it, it seems like Mesopotamia is going to end up being Persia's Egypt in the long run. And as they get that settled Persia also seems to have turned their eyes east and north to bring back Central Asia and the Hindu Kush fully under the Ottoman banner once more...
Not disagreeing at all, just pointing out that B444 has Rhome maintaining cultural chauvinism for their chief form of bigotry rather than an ethnic/racial based one from OTL/ITTL western Europe. So bigotry more like modern China or India rather than USA.
We already have a taste of that with their cultural civilization level outlook where they view certain cultures as higher than others based on how civilized they are, with cultures like the Romans, Persians, Chinese, Japanese, Ethiopians, and Vijayanagarans/Indians all having high marks for...
Also, 25% is still a pretty big profit margin, bigger than margins for some industries get today, and what's considered part of the cost of production can be fluid so it won't have a huge effect outside of short-circuiting some of the more blatant and egregious examples of the 18th-19th century...
I do want to point out there's a big difference between a command economy like the Soviets and a state capitalist style economy, which is essentially what China, South Korea, Japan and to lesser extents what Germany, France, and even the US at times used.
Also I get the feeling that the...
It would be, more than three times as long as the last dissolution of China during the Five Dynasties period. At the same time it's extremely plausible, the northern China, especially if incorporating the Mongolian steppe, would be heavily influenced by the cavalry traditions of the Mongols...
It is very plausible, if the Jin hadn't ground their military and economy against the Song, or better yet spent that on pacifying its northern and western frontiers, its likely they could have weathered or even repelled the Mongol invasions, if not preclude them from being more than the usual...
Yes, part of the whole reason the Jin were declining, and the Song, was from the failed invasions that were beaten back by the Song and the Song themselves assisted the Mongols in breaking the Jin. The Song couldn't really invade the north on their own but were a pain to conquer, it still took...
Another thing that could be done is speed up when silk worms were smuggled to Greece and get cotton into Egypt sooner. Those two things would vastly help balance the trade deficit by reducing the amount brought in.
The Ottomans and Persians went back and forth over Iraq for centuries too, it was only the crushing defeat of the Safavids in 1639 that a 150 year-ish peace occured, though border disputes still happened. After that the Safavids were never really able to get back to a position of strength to...
There's a good argument that without the Mongol/Yuan invasion and subsequent unification we might have not seen a united China, at least not for several more centuries. The Ming didn't do any real conquering themselves and were more a rebellion of the native Han aristocracy to remove the Yuan...
It did mention that they are chosen via lottery from the tax rolls, with a certain number per tax level. As for who in the council brings things to the emperor or empress, each member likely can bring things up individually, though having multiple supporters likely helps.
Yep, really looking forward to seeing how they handle landless characters and how a dynasty down on its luck can once more rise, though maybe far from their homelands. Only other thing I would really want after that is a halfway decent trade & economy system.
They did a decent showing of one during the Thirty Years War. A general move to Protestantism could be the driver for early Pan-Germanism, the same way the Time of Troubles did a lot to merge Orthodox Christianity with early Russian nationalism.
Hells, wouldn't even be the first time the HRE...