Re: Workshops Review #4
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 11, 2003, 23:53 |
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Andrew wrote:
>On 01/11 22:31 Isaac A. Penzev wrote:
>> - a new idea - Bahasa Vijaya - a language of the Buddhist empire in
Western
>> Pacific, with Singapore as its capital! and other alternative realities
like
>> Swedish Philippines (Hi, I'm Bjorn Riksberg from Manilla!)
>
>This reminds me of a date that has been suggested as significant in the
>age of Pacific exploration: 1433, the year that the Chinese decided that
>they were going to stay home after all. Imagine what could have
>happened if the Chinese had expanded first...
>
Do you follow Conculture and the recent expansion of Ill Bethisad? I seem
by default to have charge of the Indonesian area, and one of my assumptions
is that the Chinese did NOT take that decision. They didn't expand, in this
view, but they kept control and influence, and kept the round-eye barbarians
away. Srivijaya and Majapahit still survive, the Dutch never got control of
Indonesia etc. etc. Look like I need to see what Eamon is up to with
Bahasa Vijaya.......
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