Take for example a guy named Leif Ericcson. Rather than live in some awful areas like 'Greenland' or 'Iceland' he had come across this place called 'Vinland' and sent settlers there. Better weather, better soil, and milder winters than Norway. A gal named Freydis who happened to be Leif's sister in 1001 AD broke Viking law and left Leif banning travel to Vinland - thereby setting the stage for Vinland to become Nova Scotia a few hundred years later. Because Freydis had lost her temper and ordered the killing of women and children in addition to the two brothers who had decided to become squatters in her longhouse - Viking settlers abandoned a continent and left it open for later settlers.
There were well over a hundred million of such pivot points, each of which aligned precisely to produce the history one might call familiar. If one were different, the path of history altered and the present became a very different thing.
Of course, for those living in that different present - the world was as it had always been. There was also the fact that the pivot might have been even less clearly defined or even obscure but a domino which caused further things to develop in an odd manner. Such as in the 1920s in Japan, when the Southern School began to take power from the Northern School among Japan's military.
Not all pivot points had dramatic results, but this one being different did have a dramatic result.
So it was that Ranma and his father went from a familiar history, to one less familiar. The world was affected by a difference in the past that had occurred:
(Posted Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:46)
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