What are some historical events that, if described in an althis book, would be considered to be improbable and to disrupt suspension of disbelief?
>>18432330Trump dismantling the post-WW2 American hegemony for no reason.China discontinuing the Treasure Fleet for no reason.USSR shitting its pants and collapsing upon witnessing a Pizza Hut ad.The Taiping Rebellion.
The end of communist rule in Romania after commies build a gigabuilding which cost so much money the normies get pissed off
>>18432330A war between the defenders of the right of private persons to own slaves and the reformers who want to socialize slave ownership.
>>18432330The Christianization of Rome.
>>18432330Jesus rising from the dead.
>>18432331>no don't deport those illegals think about your le hegemony
>>18432427Obama did that better. Without any fuss, without the dragnet constantly catching US citizens and without revealing the FEMA death camps as being utterly insufficient for the job.
>>18432376HOLY GOD JESUS PRAY FOR US HE DID IT HE MADE THE CHRIST POST YES LORD.
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>>18432330The Orellana expeditionThe Rwandan genocideThe expansion of IslamHaitian history in general
>>18432330Alexandrian conquests
Everything involving Maurice BenyovszkyThe Afro-Bolivian monarchy Medieval new England The life of Josiah Harlan
Edwin Booth saving Robert Lincoln's life.
>>18432334In that vein, Communist Albania and its 173,000 bunkers, in a nation the size of Vermont. And that's the most conservative estimate, the high estimate is up to SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND
>>18432331>Trump dismantling the post-WW2 American hegemony for no reason.>for no reasonit achieved what it was meant to avhieve and outlived it's usefulness
>>18432737bodied that freak
>>18432330A random dude, Cortez, conquering the Aztec Empire. And another random dude, Pizarro, conquering the Incan Empire shortly after. Any writer would be rightfully lambasted for writing such an unrealistic trash
>>18432737>>18432856Yeah, that's what it would look like if it were painted on.
>>18433255What makes Cortes's success unbelievable isn't that he was a "random dude conquering a whole empire", because he wasn't: There were like 2000-3000 other conquistadors participating across the course of the expedition, see pic, plus a massive smallpox outbreak, and the fact that the "Aztec Empire" was a loose hegemony of mostly indepedent states, the majority of whom stayed neutral in the conflict, and with a half to a few dozen or so allying with Cortes so there were like 200,000 local allied soldiers working with him and the Conquistadors (and honestly they did most of the work and at times the active leading and descionmaking, Xicotencatl II, Ixtlilxochitl II etc deserve more credit alongside Cortes)Under those circumstances, Tenochtitlan (not the whole empire) being beaten is a lot less impossible to buyWhat makes it unbelievable is how fucking lucky Cortes was to get that far with (sort of) randomly coming across shipwrecked sailors who could act as translators, arriving just when he did so Tlaxcala was desperate enough to ally with him, a bunch of the choices local kings made that happened to allow him to continue forwards and not get ambushed or captured, him happening to not die in La Noche Triste (barely), and the smallpox outbreak happening to break out when it did, him being able to convince Narvaez's men to defect to him, and if you don't think it's bullshit revionism, the claim that his arrival happened to coincide with prophecies and omens (but that's probably just revisionism)
>>18432330As far as variant versions of the nativity story go, the one from the second-century Gospel of James is hard to beat. It starts off rather beautifully by telling how, at the moment of Jesus’s birth, the world suddenly stops turning: birds hang in the air, a shepherd’s arm is frozen and the stars stand still. A few minutes later, a woman arrives and, sceptical about whether Mary can really be a virgin, insists on shoving her fingers up the new mother’s vagina, whereupon her hand is immediately burned off. “Woe,” says the woman.
>>18432330Islam expanding at all. It's an EXTREMELY unlikely series of extremely good luck lining up. All to the benefit of what had been, up to that point, a pack of irrelevant retards squabbling over sand and following what amounted to a fanfiction rekigion. Leafmding to them somehow defeating two of the most powerful empires to ever exist. Muhhamed should have gotten himself killed when he first started the cult. He didn't. Then the early Muslims got EXTREMELY lucky in that the ERE and Persians has just finished a 30 year long apocalyptic war that pushed the sassanids into a cycle of civil war and discontent, and the romans were exhausted on a societal level and couldn't fucking deal with them, when at ANY other time- move the needle a decade- they'd have absolutely crushed them. Islam shouldn't be anything more than a weird regional cult, and it 100% reads like fiction.
>>18434665Yeah, the "a couple spaniards solo'd the entire empire" thing is a myth but the true story is honestly far more spectacular.By comparison the conquest of the Inca was far less impressive, it took 40 years and much of it was just done by ambushing the emperor at a peace conference and using him as a hostage to extort everyone else. Not to mention that the Spaniards were complete retards who kept sabotaging peace talks by acting like marauding retards and making things a billion times harder for themselves. Though Cortez' men kind of did that too, it just didn't work out as poorly for them since they had more native allies to bail them out
>>18434685That's because Muhammad had support from Babylonian Jewry. It wasn't luck, it was just strategic. They were financed, and used as a weapon of the Sassanids to raid Roman Syria-Palestine. Once the collapse happened the Arabs first took the Roman Near East, and since the Sassanids were weak they took that next. Or do you really think that the tribal chiefs just embraced Islam because it was so "pure"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg>Prussia gets completely btfo in a battle, leaving the way to Berlin open to an Austrian-Russian coalition>both countries march up to the outskirts of Berlin>despite having 90k professional soldiers vs. the 30k (half untrained conscripts) defending Berlin, they balk at actually attacking it, then disengage and march away>three years later, Catherine the Great dies and her heir is a massive Prussiaboo who immediately ducks out of the war, leaving Prussia free to fight Austria alone
