Talk:Conhistory

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What is the difference between What If and the Courses of History thing? --Pthag 14:36, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Well, this was just a basic outline I set up. We can change it later if there are problems.

I was planning on "What If" as being 'alternate endings' to real-world events. EG, "Germany won WWII, The Mongols conquered Central Europe, The Romans beat back the Barbarians, the Cold War lead to a Nuclear Exchange", etc. Just some ideas to get people thinking of new courses of history for their conworld.

The "New Courses of History" was basically stuff that never happened on Earth. EG, "a major climate shift after the development of civilization", and... okay, I admit it, there's not much difference. *Edits* -- Maknas 15:46, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Eurocentrism

I think the categories need to be reorganized... no civilization other than the Western one experienced the ages in that order (Ancient, Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Industrial, Modern). Why would a concivilization also go through these stages?

Right now I'm thinking about some way of rearranging everything altogether, by using much more general categories like "Developments in Warfare", "Cultural Interactions", "Migrations", "Spread of Literacy", "Inventions" and so forth. -- Ran 01:59, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Well, aren't the "Classical", "Medieval", and "Renaissance" categories the main offenders? Cause, at least on Earth, every other nation passed through the others to various extents. So should we try to somehow break up these three?

Oh, and why does it say "Retrieved from Talk:Conhistory below? Not anymore... -- Maknas 12:30, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, breaking up those three would be good. -- Ran 13:33, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Beginning to End

Don't forget 'confuturism' or 'conholism' or whatever you would call the creation of an entire timeline, from beginning to end. This does not need to interfere with local free will, or the freedom of a novelist creating a novel set in a particular time, but (in instances where there is a notion of the 'present') is more general than History. Sj 03:07, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)