History questions not worth their own thread IV

[innonimatu]

Most Americans did at that time. Funny how they didn't recognise Siberia as a colony.

You joke, we do know why. The way it was colonized struck too close to home, the "Wild West" and all that.

 

[ace99]

Good and believable ones are, anyway. Glad to see you aren't going the garbage route and doing it right.

The correct answer is that the Romans colonize America and blast off into space in 2040. Just like a civ game.

 

[History_Buff]

I want a realistic, down to earth alt-history that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots.

 

[Dachs]

There was no need to reach so far and tenuously as Siberia when Ukraine, all of Central Asia, the Baltics, Caucuses and Belarus were all directly appended to the Soviet Union.

One oughtn't bite off more than one can chew. Breaking up the British colonial empire would be directly beneficial and eminently doable. Breaking up the Soviet colonial empire would be dubiously beneficial and not obviously doable.

 

[innonimatu]

Dachs, are you turning into a Roosevelt admirer?

 

[Dachs]

Dachs, are you turning into a Roosevelt admirer?

Not really an admirer. Certain elements of his policies were quite sound.

 

[Lord Baal]

I've read that the USSR demanded Somalia from Italy at the end of WW2, the other powers ofc refused and the USSR backed down. Is this true in any way?

Close. It was Libya, not Somalia. He wanted to use it primarily as an excuse to pressure Turkey over the Dardanelles, not to mention as a threat to Egypt.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Did the Celts have any kind of writing?

 

[sophie]

Depends on what you mean by "Celts"

Welsh, Gaelic, Scots-Gaelic, and Breton are written languages.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

It's a question I'm frequently asked. I think by Celts they mean the people who lived in Britain and France before the Romans.

 

[Phrossack]

Did the Celts have any kind of writing?

I'm guessing you're talking about the various pre-Christian Celtic peoples, especially of Britain and Ireland, no? If so, some of them had a sort of writing system called ogham.

 

[TheLastOne36]

What about non-Brythonic Celts?

 

[Agent327]

Did the Celts have any kind of writing?

None that has been found. Although, as mentioned, nowadays they have developed writing. Might have someting to do with the Romans, although Greek seems to have been known first among the Celtic speakers.

 

[Dachs]

I'm guessing you're talking about the various pre-Christian Celtic peoples, especially of Britain and Ireland, no? If so, some of them had a sort of writing system called ogham.

There is no evidence of ogham being employed by the pre-Christian Celts, just conjecture. All ogham inscriptions date from, at the earliest, the socially and militarily tumultuous period surrounding the large-scale introduction of Christianity to Ireland (not that that was the cause of the tumult - it might've been caused by it, or simply coterminous with it - but it was the most easily identifiable way to delineate the fairly sharp discontinuity in fourth- and fifth-century Irish society).

I'll also get in a dig at scholars of Irish history here by noting that some of them have come up with pretty incredible and fanciful stories about ogham's original use, e.g. that it was a secret cipher language employed either by the Christians to avoid the notice of the Roman government before the early fourth century, or by the Celtic peoples to preserve some sort of crypto-Celtic cultural fragment from the Roman authorities, or something similar.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

If they didn't have any writing, how could they keep records?

 

[Leoreth]

They didn't. They relied only on oral tradition.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I'll also get in a dig at scholars of Irish history here by noting that some of them have come up with pretty incredible and fanciful stories about ogham's original use, e.g. that it was a secret cipher language employed either by the Christians to avoid the notice of the Roman government before the early fourth century, or by the Celtic peoples to preserve some sort of crypto-Celtic cultural fragment from the Roman authorities, or something similar.

I thought you'd like the theory that it was a secret cipher language to provide military intelligence to future Irish Raiders.

 

[Dachs]

I thought you'd like the theory that it was a secret cipher language to provide military intelligence to future Irish Raiders.

That's awesome, I hadn't read that one. Even better!

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

So I was reading an old CFC thread on the Romani people, and came across this interesting post. Now I'm curious as to which came first: antagonism by society against the Roma or vice versa?

 

[ace99]

And I thought the Israel-Palestine thread was racist....shows what I know....

HEY GUYS LETS ROUND UP THE ROMA AND THE JEWS AND PUT THEM IN oh wait...