Re: OU/NAC- Hawaii? Re: Achmaenid Persian Empire

devans@uneb.edu wrote:

> The FH has gotten even wierder than I feared.

As weird as, say, the last 250 years?

Let's see, between 1750 and 1820 we have:

A German Dynasty on the British Thrown.

A Civil War leading to the partitioning of the First British Empire into
the New England Colonies and the rest.

The Louisiana Purchase, where the whole of French America, about 1/3 of
the continent, gets added to the aforementioned 13 original states,
making them a 2nd-rate power instead of 10th rate.

The most stable Monarchy in Europe first gets overthown (as happened in
the 1640s in England), a primitive Communism gets set up, then THAT gets
replaced by a ruthless Military Dictatorship that comes within an ace of
unifying Europe 200 years early, then THAT gets replaced by the corrupt
Monarchy again...

The many nations of India get slowly unified under British rule.
 
Oh yes, Australia gets colonised by the Brits.

Meanwhile, just in the last 20 years, we have a total collapse of a
world order, the final act of the 75 years War, a replay of the Balkan
Troubles of 1912, a return to an 18th century style of warfare with
professional armies and few civilian casualties, etc etc.

So far I've seen nothing (with the _possible_ exception of the USA
implosion) in the Tuffleyverse nearly as unlikely as what I've
experienced in my own lifetime so far. 
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