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Can a society completely erase all memory of a predecessor culture’s collapse in only three generations? [closed]
Something bad happened and the world chose to cover the event up by erasing their activities.
My world believes they are survivors/refugees of a "lost civilization" such as the Khmer, and ...
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Did young people REALLY drink alcohol in the 1800s? [closed]
In my studying of the setting for my story, a fantasy world analogous to 1800 - 1850, I've found a number of interesting things - one of these is that people in the past did a lot of really odd things....
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How Would I Justify Keeping Most Magic Away from the General Public if it is Technically Learnable by Everyone? [closed]
In my book series, magic is a learnable skill that any person can learn to some degree (although some have much more natural talent with it than others and mastering even a single discipline of magic ...
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How to justify new diverse cultures from the same ancestors [closed]
I'm struggling a bit in my worldbuilding on justifying the creation of different cultures on my land, when all originated from the same ancestors.
So on my continent I have a group of humans that ...
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An alphabet with alternating reading order
I am in the middle of designing a con-lang that features, among other things a letter reading order that alternates by line from left-to-right to right-to-left and back again. My justification for ...
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Why would a civilization develop a taboo against a highly nutritious food that grows well in its climate?
A human civilization, civilization X, decides that food Y is not fit for consumption. Food Y grows well in its climate, is highly nutritious and tasty, and is not harmful to its inhabitants. Food Y ...
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What would be day to day life like, for people during a renaissance like period in a world I'm building [closed]
Like I said, what would people eat, what would they drink, how'd they spend their time. I realise this isn't really a hypothetical question, rather a question that requires some information from an ...
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A magic system at least partially based on the real-world cultural history of magic? [closed]
I've long had difficulty trying to put this into words, and trying to find reliable sources that I could look into to inform me on how to move forward with my writing. I'm hoping someone out there ...
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What Does Male Dominated Population Replacement Look Like? [closed]
Our genomes tell us that there are many examples in human history of a group of foreigners who are mostly male migrating somewhere and having children with local women to the nearly complete exclusion ...
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What factors would influence a cultures scripture to be written either left to right, right to left etc?
So I have been thinking about this lately, and I've been wondering what exactly are the reason for a culture to write in a specific format? Script form (curvy letters, straight letters), writing ...
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Mannerisms of a former nomadic people [closed]
Okay so I'm not so sure what to put here since this is my first time but my question is:
A group of former nomadic people (They are similar to a wolf pack in terms of their nomadic days) are looking ...
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Would descendants of Earth people stranded on another planet eventually forget about Earth?
The world I'm building would be based on a new planet discovered and colonized by modern humans (us, essentially).
But then some disaster or another happens, and the end result is that all contact ...
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Where did the "paler skin means higher status" concept originate? And approximately when? [closed]
I have observed the phenomenon of people with paler skin being seen as higher status and more desirable in a number of places where I have travelled, including SE Asia, India, Western Europe and its ...
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What would the world be like today if the Germany had won WWI? [closed]
I'm trying to create a world set in our current time but where the only difference is that 100 years prior the Central Powers won WWI. I'm curious how the geopolitics of the world would change.
In ...
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Creating a Classical civilization
By classical civilization, I mean one that form the ethical, governmental, scientific, or lexical foundation for cultures that follow. Such a civilization's impact lasts for centuries if not millennia....
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