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Ep 129 - Medieval What If...
🕑 Added 2023-08-23 13:39:44 +0000 UTCpatrons, here's your ad-free regular episode for the week. we answered a question from x Guava Smoothie x on this one.
folks, today we move out of the realm of actual history and into the realm of alternative history as we take a look at some Medieval "what if..." scenarios. We go through a series of historical events, change one small detail, and see how things would've been different, if at all. What if the Moors won the Battle of Tours? What if the English won the Hundred Years War? What if the Chinese never dismantled their Treasure Fleet and instead "discovered" the Americas 40 years before the Europeans did? it's a lot of fun, so check it out!
Comments
Cornix
This was such a fun episode! I do wonder if, re:the first scenario, Christianity would have still spread in Northern Europe given the chance since it didn’t spread in Scandinavia through conquest but rather by women turning to it after Norse religion turned increasingly patriarchal, and passing it on to their children. The thought of a Christian Northern Europe and a pagan Southern Europe is interesting! It’s fun to speculate even though it, as you said, doesn’t hold much historical merit.
Jack
Let's gooo
