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Due to the logistical and infrastructural technology required, by the time he was done the resources would be no longer untapped. The sheer nastiness of African inland terrain is one of major reasons keeping major powers from being set up there, by locals or colonizers alike, and so far no...

It works as a mask that said secret police wears on sundays.

Part of the problem is that most of the nice natural resources are in the distant, impoverished provinces. As the whole "resource curse" problem demonstrated in many places shows, corruption will likely follow said impoverished provinces with nice resources unless they were to get really good...

Such a situation means that one side's naval assets are utterly crippled, and as such, they cannot take/reinforce Taiwan. As such, tactical nukes can't change anything anymore, if China turns Taiwan into a glowing rock because they can't take it they sure won't get a single microchip made there...

Did USA even make any kind of official statement to the point that Taiwan is under US nuclear umbrella, similarly to, say, Japan? If not, then your logic here has a gaping hole in it.

Are you for real? China is not getting Taiwan's microchip industry without a war, and it won't survive a war. Wheat based currency? Unless you plan to use it to give charity to starving countries in Africa, what's the fucking point, most countries don't care much about wheat imports as they...

I don't think i'm the one using a strange definition of middle class. Since when are free peasants (aka people who have to farm land with own hands and even supplemented with war wages will not be able to afford hired farm hands or slaves to do the farming for them) included? That's on the low...

You are projecting the schizophrenic principles of clown world post-empires onto empires of the past. 1. Empires whose armies become infamous for being cannon fodder aren't empires who are doing well, quite the opposite. 2. Roman middle class didn't compete with foreign slave labor. It owned the...

This assumes that the monarch does care about the future investment above all and doesn't have too many children (if he does, kingdom split and civil wars ahoy), and part of that stability was definitely due to the slower tempo information, people and goods traveled, in turn culture, society...