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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8663367" data-attributes="member: 7025997"><p>The Ottomans also had their own history of empire, being more or less equal to a European nation in power through the 18th century, and most of the caliphates in the time being alluded to got that way by conquering other countries. For that matter, the Manchus subjugated the Han Chinese through the beginning of the 20th century, forming the Qing dynasty, whereas China's invaded Vietnam a couple of times. If you've heard of a culture, it probably oppressed somebody. Omayyad <em>dhimmitude</em> in Spain was an improvement for half of my ancestors and an oppression of the other half (points if you can figure out what I mean).</p><p></p><p>EDIT: And I should also add that not all Islamic regions are Arabic--Ottomans/Turkey and Persia/Iran maintained their own language and culture.</p><p></p><p>Messing with religion is another story and I can see why they stayed away from that.</p><p></p><p>That said I think having people from those cultures (at least at the publication level) at least consulting does improve the book in terms of realism, and as in the case of Ms. Yuan in the other thread may empower people to make a more well-rounded version of the culture. I guess if you were making a whole world it would be unrealistic to have China consultants for fantasy China, Arabic consultants for fantasy Arabia, and so on...unless you've got Hasbro's budget!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8663367, member: 7025997"] The Ottomans also had their own history of empire, being more or less equal to a European nation in power through the 18th century, and most of the caliphates in the time being alluded to got that way by conquering other countries. For that matter, the Manchus subjugated the Han Chinese through the beginning of the 20th century, forming the Qing dynasty, whereas China's invaded Vietnam a couple of times. If you've heard of a culture, it probably oppressed somebody. Omayyad [I]dhimmitude[/I] in Spain was an improvement for half of my ancestors and an oppression of the other half (points if you can figure out what I mean). EDIT: And I should also add that not all Islamic regions are Arabic--Ottomans/Turkey and Persia/Iran maintained their own language and culture. Messing with religion is another story and I can see why they stayed away from that. That said I think having people from those cultures (at least at the publication level) at least consulting does improve the book in terms of realism, and as in the case of Ms. Yuan in the other thread may empower people to make a more well-rounded version of the culture. I guess if you were making a whole world it would be unrealistic to have China consultants for fantasy China, Arabic consultants for fantasy Arabia, and so on...unless you've got Hasbro's budget! [/QUOTE]
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