It would be the same here, except with the Roman invasion of Judea in 6 AD, Romans killed all the Jews in their province. They are then seen as a cult, with at least 1, still remaining. And let's say the Romans further invaded the Middle East before this even happened, leaving modern-day Israel alone, not just in Syria, but up to modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. So Roman mythology would be the ruling religion in the Middle East.
Which brings us to Joseph and Mary, who were both Jews. Because they lived in modern-day Israel they would be killed off, and possibly their kid Jesus, too. If Jesus survived, he would have been killed off much earlier before he could bring up 50, followers.
That would be because maybe Jesus was part of the small cult of Judaism. Then again, before the 50, people converted, they were Jews, so they may not exist either. So in the end, the 1, Jews still left either die from disease brought by Romans or they are rounded up and killed. Again, not anti-Semitic. Because of expansionism of the Middle East and the eradication of Jews, Rome has become a mightier power.
So they would have taken some Parthian land. The main religion of the Parthian Empire was Zoroastrianism so they would have been safe from Roman prejudice for now. But let's say after lengthy wars with the Parthian empire, Rome takes over.
Roman mythology being poly-theistic, they would think that Zoroastrianism is wrong so, like the Jews before them, the Zoroastrians were eradicated. The competition for resources—both material and intellectual—between those emerging states led to advances that propelled Europe toward the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
And empires tend toward economic stasis. The link between a polycentric state system and economic growth can be seen in the story of Christopher Columbus. His first expedition was financed not by a nation-state but by Genoese merchants in Seville. When he shopped around his next idea, the Spanish crown, worried about Portuguese competition in Africa, gave him the money to sail west.
In the face of actual history, Scheidel creatively invents alternate histories that he calls counterfactuals. What if, he conjectures, Afroeurasia were spun on an axis so that China was just a few hundred kilometers from North America and Europe faced the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean? Would China have invaded North America and taken advantage of those vast resources?
No, Scheidel posits, because during that same era China had no interest even in close lands like Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan. In fact, imperial China made a point of discouraging exploration and discovery. The last big holdouts were Portugal, which adopted the system in , and the Russian empire, which gave in by By the 19th century, most everyone was on board. It's worth pointing out the concept of B. He reasoned that the world existed before 1 A. Due to its logic, B.
That takes us to the present. The most recent dating battle has been a semantic one over the rise of C. And two, when most people see it, they think it stands for Christian Era and Before Christian Era, so it doesn't really solve the problem people wanted to solve.
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