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Interesting, how did the Roman Empire suppress advanced civilizations developing in China and America? Assuming that Asian cultures outside of the influence of
by josefx 4y ago
Interesting, how did the Roman Empire suppress advanced civilizations developing in China and America? Assuming that Asian cultures outside of the influence of the Roman Empire already had nuclear weapons, how did the Empire survive their incursions? When do you presume will the descendants of advanced south American cultures return from Mars to punish us for what we did to the environment?
- napier 4y agoCreative straw man. Mind if I steal that as the basis of an alt history novel?
- scythe 4y agoThe Americans were disconnected from advancements in the rest of the world, and even worse, from each other. Ancient Greece inherited iron smelting from Anatolia and formal legal codes from Babylon. The Islamic development of chemistry benefited greatly from the Roman development of glass, and the Italians learned math from Fibonacci who was schooled in Algeria. The printing press was first developed in Korea and may have influenced the developments all the way across Eurasia by Gutenberg. But to this day, there is no land transport connection between North and South America! Corn eventually made it from South to North America, but the potato was stuck in Peru until the Spaniards showed up on very nice boats. China was doing great until Mongke Khan showed up.