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If you could go back in time and do, or bring, one thing to mess up the timeline what would it be? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It would only be a deterrent for empire building if there's a pattern (probably 3 or 4 similar events), otherwise people would consider it a random hateful act of god, of which there are many, and of which have been interpreted many different ways

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago

    I was focussing on changing the timeline, not on deterring nations from doing something. Without English colonializers, there would have certainly been other colonizers, but e.g. the whole China situation would have likely been very different. There would not be a dominant anglo culture right now. No English-speaking USA, no English-speaking Australia, no large countries with an anglo common law-based legal system.

    It would change the timeline quite a bit.

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