Re: Zera and other conlangs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Mills" <Rfmilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Zera and other conlangs


> In a message dated 4/7/2000 11:51:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> carlos_thompson@CORREO.JAVERIANA.EDU.CO writes:
>
> <<  From this point European history begun to be
>  different: no big shipments of American gold, Spain loosing earlier its
>  power in Europe, while English becoming earlier world dominators...
>   >>
> Oho! Follow the money....... All that gold financed Charles V/Hapsburg
wars
> throughout Europe. Fewer hidalgos seeking glory in the New World might
have
> meant less stability in Spain.  Louis XIV wouldn't have had to bankrupt
> France to thwart total Hapsburg hegemony.  The Turks might have captured
> Vienna.  Holland would have become independent much sooner and really have
> eclipsed England as a naval power.  Worst of all, perhaps, the greatest
> Spanish brandy might be called.......Felipe IV?????? ;-))
Well, well... this would mean that there were the Dutch instead of the
English who took over most Spanish colonies... this could be interesting: a
Dutch-English raze conquering the world, and Nyucars in Hangkerim, speaking
a Dutch dialect (some kind of Amerikaans) instead of a English relative...

I have to check how many Netherlandish activity I had yet planed in Zera.  I
kow that Iberia is divided in two republics: one Castillian and one
Catalunian, Portugal territores are ruled by either England or the
Netherlands (I'll have to check my notes).

Vienna is under a Nordic-Germanic power... but I don't know if it has been
conquered by Turks.

-- Carlos Th