(10-13-2014, 04:42 AM)TheUnforgiven Wrote: No one's touched the Spanish Armada? Would have changed European development for the last 500 years entirely! All thrown out the window over a storm! Tough luck!
We could also throw in the Mongol invasion of Japan that never happened on account of the "Divine Wind."
But still....is the Spanish Armada MORE significant a history changer than Marathon or Tours? I'd argue no.
(10-13-2014, 04:42 AM)TheUnforgiven Wrote: No one's touched the Spanish Armada? Would have changed European development for the last 500 years entirely! All thrown out the window over a storm! Tough luck!
We could also throw in the Mongol invasion of Japan that never happened on account of the "Divine Wind."
But still....is the Spanish Armada MORE significant a history changer than Marathon or Tours? I'd argue no.
In fact few Mongol troops managed to land onto Japan in both cases, yet their numbers were so insignificant that they weren't much trouble for Kamakura Shogunate.
Quote:If Lincoln would have lost then USA would had been drastically different now.
One thing on this one. I know U.S. Americans may scream at me, but I believe Lincoln would keep slavery (instead of abolition), if it was crucial and needed for unity of United States. This is how I was taught (and even discussion took place on that) at university on American History and Culture classes.
It was crucial for unity to keep the South as a part of the US. If the North had been forced to concede that the Confederacy was no longer a part of the nation, keeping slavery would've been pointless, as it wouldn't have been irrelevant in the majority of the states still loyal to the Union, as most had already banned slavery. Additionally, Lincoln couldn't have banned slavery in the States, that would require an amendment to the Constitution, which has to come from Congress.
As the Ice walls kept pushing south during the last Ice Age, and the new Homo Sapiens were spreading from Africa and Middle East into Europe, the Neanderthal struggled cornered and finally lost the battle for the species survival. If they had had some more luck, perhaps today we'd be living in a world with two "intelligent" species instead of only one.
(10-20-2014, 04:40 AM)Gypsie Skripto Wrote: As the Ice walls kept pushing south during the last Ice Age, and the new Homo Sapiens were spreading from Africa and Middle East into Europe, the Neanderthal struggled cornered and finally lost the battle for the species survival. If they had had some more luck, perhaps today we'd be living in a world with two "intelligent" species instead of only one.
Perhaps. I read somewhere about that idea, but I believe it would end up in extermination of either species and domination of the other. Sadly.