What? That's what all the mares say.

He's a complicated man…

Half? You were lucky!

It truly was the Gerald Ford of stuff gathering dust in Ion Chef's home.

He's pretty fly - for a horseguy.

Heathen!

When someone gives you that "a case of the Mondays" line and you kill them then and there, it only counts as manslaughter (or womanslaughter, I suppose).

Or charming and charismatic?

The 163x series to me reads like a clearly pre-9/11 work, with the first book written during the self-proclaimed end of history and the sequels continuing with a corner of America where that triumphalism was given a very different kind of test - and passed it, apparently. (Admittedly, I'm quite behind on the series.)…

Lanterns, huh?

1) Get a gun, scope out Lenny's house, try to do it by his own or with just Leon. That's actually what I thought would happen. Admittedly, a shaky proposition for someone who hasn't done anything like this before.

Sure, as a history buff with an interest in alternate history, I fully agree. But the truth is we're lucky to get money poured into any AH series. It's going to be something any viewer can understand: what if the Axis had won World War II, what if the South had won the American Civil War, what if the Soviets had won…

Humans would still have settled it by 1863, it just would have happened thousands of years later and by ship. Point is, you've changed history so much the question no longer makes sense. It's not like the rise of Islam was a preset event in human history.

Then I don't agree with the argument. Hinduism took root in Southeast Asia as well, it was still (almost entirely) supplanted by Buddhism and Islam. What does "weak" even mean in this context anyway? And it's kind of silly to have Hinduism spread to the Arabian Peninsula but then have so little change that you still…

How many shows about slavery is too many? Give me a number.

Sure, as an academic exercise it has limited use. But if you treat it like fiction while still striving for plausibility, it has potential. I don't demand that the show depict what definitely would have happened, just what could have happened.

The Mongols in Asia had no problem sticking around in places with little grassland. Besides, there's a story that Genghis Khan wanted to raze the cities of northern China and convert it into pastureland but was eventually convinced that it made more economic sense to leave them be.

There's no law in history that says the religion of the rulers must become the religion of the ruled (see the Seleucids). Anyway, you're talking over a millennium after the aborted birth of Christianity. The butterfly effect would have nearly guaranteed there wouldn't have been a Hulagu - or an Il-Khanate, for that…

Altan Khan converted his Tümed Mongols to Buddhism in the late 16th century.

the Hindu cultures in the Arabian Peninsula