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World Building
Sep. 8th, 2013 04:54 amI've been taking world-building for granted, apparently. At first the idea seemed simple. Steampunk Sengoku Japan. Shouldn't be too hard, no?
WRONG.
griswaldterrastone.deviantart.com/art/How-to-Create-Your-Own-World-344907941
That link gave me much to think about. Not entirely a bad thing, though. Technology shapes a culture. If a nation had high-end steam tech available to them, what would their opinion on others be like?
The realization first hit me when I read a book about Europeans in Japan in the Sengoku era and I saw that it mentioned the straits of Malacca.
The Portuguese entered Japan around the same time they started roughing up South East Asia.
It was a shame that I actually forgot that because it makes me feel so unpatriotic, but I was not very good with history back at school and I only remembered the Dutch colonization because it lasted longer and left a lot of relics and buildings that are still around to this day. I have NO IDEA if the Portuguese ever left anything in places easily-accessible to me and I haven't bothered to check (again, shame on me).
This was the colonization period. This is the time when the Europeans got out to the world and colonize people. Because... they think they're better than you. And fight each other a lot back in Europe, apparently.
( Read more... )
WRONG.
griswaldterrastone.deviantart.com/art/How-to-Create-Your-Own-World-344907941
That link gave me much to think about. Not entirely a bad thing, though. Technology shapes a culture. If a nation had high-end steam tech available to them, what would their opinion on others be like?
The realization first hit me when I read a book about Europeans in Japan in the Sengoku era and I saw that it mentioned the straits of Malacca.
The Portuguese entered Japan around the same time they started roughing up South East Asia.
It was a shame that I actually forgot that because it makes me feel so unpatriotic, but I was not very good with history back at school and I only remembered the Dutch colonization because it lasted longer and left a lot of relics and buildings that are still around to this day. I have NO IDEA if the Portuguese ever left anything in places easily-accessible to me and I haven't bothered to check (again, shame on me).
This was the colonization period. This is the time when the Europeans got out to the world and colonize people. Because... they think they're better than you. And fight each other a lot back in Europe, apparently.
( Read more... )
