My favorite examples of this are the Battle of Marathon and the 2nd Punic War.
If the Greeks lose at Marathon or Hannibal gets supply reinforcements and sacks Rome, literally all of modern history looks *unrecognizably* different.
If the Greeks lose at Marathon or Hannibal gets supply reinforcements and sacks Rome, literally all of modern history looks *unrecognizably* different.
Reposted from
Will Stancil
It’s easy to imagine a world where the US and USSR actually entered a nuclear exchange in the 1960s, and I guarantee you the survivors would describe this exchange as inevitable and unavoidable. “There so many clear causes, the trend was obvious.” They’d be right - but it never happened!
Comments
People vastly underestimate how much of the modern world depends on the culture of Roman law.
Persia beating Athens, though? We are talking vast, dramatic differences.
Just a wacky example, so many other ones are available
Unless you *very* broadly define feudalism to include, say, Chinese feudalism in which case....sure. it would have developed probably far earlier, minus religious aspects.
But not in the same sequence or with the issues leading to a Renaissance
Unless you *very* broadly define feudalism to include, say, Chinese feudalism in which case....sure. it would have developed probably far earlier, minus religious aspects.
But not in the same sequence or with the issues leading to a Renaissance
That would have been Europe too.
Also, feudalism was not in any sense a necessary precondition to the rise of mercantilism or capitalism.