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Alternate history with dragons

Hi, I'm LordJinai and I would really like to read your story about dragons in the 20th century. Me and my friends from the german Temeraire Forum (https://forum.temeraire.net/de/forum-47.html I've still not finished summarizing^^) just thought about dragons in the past. Maybe you have ideas about how to link these thesis: - The Roman Empire had contact with the Chinese Empire, around year 0 were the first contacts, permanent contact was around the 4th century. The Chinese called the Romans the "other great China", a mythical conter-empire on the other side of the world pushed up by legends about the west. I think it could have been likely that the Chinese shared some of their breeding knowledge or their breeds with this partner Empire. This could explain why the Romans build up a great dragon culture within very few years without having any domesticated dragons nor help nor examples. The Ottoman Empire (East-Rome) had contacts to China too, so I suppose the knowledge of dragon breeding lived on there, in west-rome it vanished after its fall. During the dark middle-age nobody knew how to use dragons. The Normans reintroduced it into North France and then into Britain. But where did the Normans (they were originally Vikings) get their knowledge from? Did they imitate the Huns (who were Mongoles and the Mongoles ruled China or were very close neighbours)? Did they imitated the people from the Byzantine Empire? Did the wild tribes in north and middle Europe imitated the Romans and all preserved a bit of knowledge (like in North America where every indian tribe has its own dragons)? Or did the civilized dragons preserved the knowledge by their own and passed it to their children? Maybe the moorish people had some influence on it. I haven't found a suitable explanation for how the dragon-breeding came from the Romans to the Normans. Do you have an other theory or can you add something to my theories? What do you think about it? - What about native dragons in India? NN never talks about feral dragons in Inida but why should this country have no dragons? It is surrounded by dragons, it has been highly developped. - Did the other high developped cultures like the Persians, the Greek, the Egyptians or the cities like Ur, Uruk, Samarkand, Babylon... had dragon cultures too? What happened to them (same question like above: has the knowledge been preserved somehow or got it lost?)?

I hope I didn't frightened you with so much questions but I'm happy to meet somebody who thinks about the same themes. If you like, I'll present you my other theories, mainly about ancient China and its dragons :D.

While I formulate my response (which shouldn't take over-long, as I've at least began to contemplate many of the foreign dragons we don't see in the books while setting up the 1939-era world), I'd certainly like to hear some of your theories about the ancient Chinese and their dragons. Solaris (talk) 16:23, 17 June 2015 (UTC)