Topics to cover:
* The Four Humors
* Christianity
* Heraldry
* Discoveries the Ancient Greeks and Romans beat China to
* Why are they so anti-Semitic?
* Alphabetic scripts
All in the register of a Tumblr academic telling people not to exoticize peripheral cultures while low-key doing it themselves.

March 11, 2026 - 03:03 UTC

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Wagonways, a fascinating way to move cargo long distances in societies without the state capacity to build canals, and the antecedent of modern maglev lines if you squint hard enough?
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... this would be an incredible bit
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I got stuck on a sketch of what Chinese and Arab societies would be like. (The alt history has a politically unified Arab world; both it and China are supposed to be polyarchic but in weird ways rather than through representative democracy and I got stuck on how to model these.)
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To the Deutsch people (NOT Deguo, this is an offensive term), it is considered SPIRITUALLY impure to engage in the process known as "spending money", to ask the Deutsch folk to spend money is a SERIOUS insult.
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Alphabetic scripts? They only use a few dozen characters? How can anyone communicate using THAT?
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"They're basically illiterate, they just developed a way to transcribe sounds onto paper so they can record what was said without having to actually be literate."
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Why are they so anti semitic would probably have the subheading : Elders of Zion- useful allies?
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I'm thinking it's more like modern-day human rights coverage of anti-Rohingya violence.
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