Recent content by Advernt

I think the POD for preventing that without serious ASBs pre-dates the POD of this timeline because you've got to butterfly away the entire Age of Discovery. Now, it might not be Columbus working for the Catholic Monarchs of Castille and Aragon that might discover the New World . It could be...

Just read through this whole time-line. It's been a wonderful piece of work, and I hope to see it picked up again. I do wonder though - the lands outside Rome probably should be hit as badly as Rome itself in any ATL Pandemic in the mid 14th Century. Also, if I recall correctly, Europe...

I am hoping for an update. But just a point to make - a Holy Britannian Empire that stretches from Pole to gleaming Pole and Sea to Shining Sea, and encompassing both Americas isn't just the shattered, exiled remains of a dead nation. It's a colossal superpower in waiting, lurking beyond the...

Weren't they also at the very extreme edge of their supply lines, during their invasion of Visigothic Iberia? I recalled their invasion was quite literally run on a shoe-string, with a core made out of recent Berber converts to Islam.

What about the earlier 721 invasion? It seems to have led to the occupation of Septimania for a few decades, and an Islamic Aquitaine and Septimania might be enough to screw the Franks quite badly.

Well, if you wank Islam (Constantinople falls in 717, Franks lose badly at Toulouse in 721 or Poitiers-Tours at 732, and the Ummayads last a few more decades), that might do the trick. This is probably the most plausible way to get a long-run Frankish screw, short of wanking the Lombards or...

The problem is that it's hard for Ireland to become an isolated Muslim State, without the presence of a Muslim empire in nearby mainland Europe. I agree, it doesn't have to be all of Europe, but isolated Muslim Ireland is near ASB, IMO.

Can someone explain why Charles Martel loses (and dies) and is crushed at Tours -Poitiers in 732, or alternatively, Constantinople is conquered in 717 is not a sufficient POD for an Islamic Ireland? Alternatively, another POD would be Duke of Aquataine losing in the Battle of Toulouse in 722...

I would rather that such a game would end with Heraclius, because the reign of Heraclius and the devastating final Roman-Persian war more or less ended classical antiquity as we knew it. Even after Justinian, the Eastern Roman Empire was still run in much the same manner - the real discontinuity...

Tsar of Russia, Emperor of China? But would the Confucian scholar class, which would probably be integral to the administration of China accept a Russian Emperor? Would there be a puppet Emperor? Or would the Tsar of Russia decide it'll be a good idea to proclaim himself the founder of a new...

ASB - the Brits only pulled off the conquest of India because of the Post Mughal Balkanization. Unless the collapse of the Ming Dynasty resulted in significant Balkanization, I don't think this can happen. On the other hand, if the mid 17th Century collapse of the Ming Dynasty resulted in...

Would France be stupid enough to gamble the possibility of a Red Germany though?

Could this end up with Islam conquering not just Iran and Syria, but Anatolia in it's initial wave of expansion? And perhaps, a simultaneous expansion into North Africa, Transoxinia and the Balkans, later on?

Well, if we want to take the Butterfly effect seriously, minus Mesoamerican and Andean gold, we might end up with an Ottoman Austria, and perhaps Italy because the Hapsburgs lack the funds to fight both the reformation and the Turks simultaneously. Now, would anyone like to pose a detailed...

Yes, but can the Aztec state, which is hardly a state, and more of a tributary system of organized mass sacrifices actually survive with the loss of 70% of the population, if not more? There are some Nauhas. They are not the majority. Far from it. This is the catch.