If you could change a single part of pre 18th century history what would you change?
If you could change a single part of pre 18th century history what would you change?
I'm looking for specific and non obvious answers. Give me something visceral, rid the world of a figure or nation you hate. Preserve a culture you adore. It doesn't have to make sense either, you are basically god here.
What I mean is don't just say you'd get rid of imperialism or colonialism bc no shit
Personally I would make it so that the Americas are never discovered by the old world and every "would be" conquistador (especially cortez and pizarro) explodes.
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Chinese not abandoning their large ships probably leads to their technology not stagnating and their trade with and/or settlement in Western North America. Really crazy change to history.
Please go on!
See below post
Explain the history here to me
There's a good We're Not So Different about it. The Chinese Emperor built giant ships to show off their wealth and got across to Ethiopia on Africa.
They almost certainly could have made to the West Coast of North America either open water or hugging coastlines.
They ended up scrapping them to focus internally.
Had they kept it up it could have spread their technology to Africa, Oceania and the America's. And in turn kept up with advances in the middle East and Europe.
Like it's really different timeline.
Interesting. Thanks.
There's a good We're Not So Different about it
Which episode?
Also 129 what if
Ep 163 weird medieval