Recent content by Fabius Maximus

Given all this, what would have happened if the French Crown had simply declared bankruptcy and announced it wasn't going to pay its existing debts, a la Philip II of Spain? Obviously it would have been a blow to the Crown's prestige, but would it have been a temporary embarrassment that the...

Where did the millions of migrants willing to work the soil in Canada from? Though even if the Great Plains don't get settled, I think the Allies could survive, because they've got essentially the whole world to import food from.

Louisiana would either remain part of the Spanish Empire, be given back to France again, or conquered sometime by Britain (probably during the Napoleonic Wars). If it remains part of the Spanish Empire, it would most likely gain independence along with the rest of the New World, and the Allies...

A dis-united America wouldn't be as powerful as OTL's USA, but its aggregate resources might well be similar, or even greater (since small states are often more efficient and better governed). With a POD in the 1770s or '80s, it's perfectly plausible -- likely, even -- that, for example, Texas'...

Ptolemy describes the region as being divided among several tribes, although I don't think he goes into much detail.

Even a balkanised USA would probably be better run than Latin America, which would make subjugation harder.

The Allied blockade of Germany was more important to the latter's defeat than direct US aid. The US indirectly helped the Allies before this as a source of loans and manufactured goods, but TTL's allies can trade with a string of USA successor states just as well as they traded with the USA...

So basically like a western Byzantium, then.

TBH I think the Empire of this period could have maintained two or three extra legions without much effort. Sure the rewards of conquering Britain might not be worth the cost, but I don't think the cost would be so great, or that the Empire's resources were stretched so thin, that it would...

Do you mean better for Native Americans as individuals or as nations? The best hope for individuals is probably the US adopting a more assimilationist ideology, as this would give Natives the opportunity to Westernise and become a part of US society. True, without the consideration of "If we...

The Romans occupied the greater part of Britain for some 350 years. If the POD is that the invading Roman forces keep conquering instead of settling for the OTL borders, they'll likely conquer Scotland around AD 100 (maybe a decade or so later if we include stamping out the last vestiges of...

He's asking why people didn't use Warwolf-style trebuchets in pre-gunpowder sieges, not why they weren't used after cannons were invented.

Sure, people can make unsuccessful attempts to get rich, but as mentioned above, most of the crusaders went back home after reaching Jerusalem, which isn't the behaviour we'd expect if they were motivated by financial gain (since land was the main form of wealth in the middle ages, we'd expect...

The significance of the 1054 schism is one of these things that's more apparent in hindsight than it was to people at the time. Rome and Constantinople had been out of communion before, and always managed to patch things up again. Some sees remained in communion with both for centuries after...

The obvious candidates would be people who wrote influential spiritual works but were never canonised, like Thomas a Kempis or Julian of Norwich. Henry VI was on the path to sainthood, until the English Reformation killed off interest in his cause among the English royal family. If England...