India wouldn't be the same nation without the British. As in culturally.
We have to remember how culturally distinct different regions of India were prior to the arrival of the British, and still is. They didn't naturally exist as one polity.
Nothing about better/worse. Just different. I'd...
Note : The challenge says 'Centred' which has a very open meaning. It doesn't mean administrative capital, it could very well be the ceremonial capital, or the centre of the most prominent religion. I'd argue we have leeway here.
But yeah, give the Romans more taxable income, and increased food...
The only way (and this is knife-edge barely) I can see that you could reconcile this is to
1) Have Charlemagne have Roman Wife. Ideally a member of the Imperial Family, or someone that can be claimed to descend from a Roman Emperor - particularly the WRE.
2) Name the firstborn son of this...
In my opinion, the language is the biggest thing, or more specifically, cultural familiarity.
The more familiarity you have with a culture, or region, or period of history, the easier it is to enjoy it.
So since this forum is mostly English-Speaking, it tends to be easily accessible to...
The Silk Roads by Frankopan is surpossed to be good for Asia and the Indian Ocean, but does receive some criticism for being anti-European. (Something about excruciating detail for European horrors, but a sentence for the Mongols.)
In my experience there is a tendency for that in...
What about them just being Christian uprisings then? I don't know what the Caliphate may need to do, but what if the rebellions are only Pro-Roman because they can provide additional protection.
So they'd maintain religious autonomy, Levant under Antioch/Jerusalem and Egypt under Alexandria -...
As title really, I was wondering what impacts that there would be if successful pro-Roman rebellions in Egypt and the Levant.
So two seperate large rebellions in Syria and Egypt, whilst not endorsed by the Romans, or funded, but the rebellions seek to restore Roman Rule.
Besides being...
This ^^
Unless you are specificially looking for polities/institutions that are continued from the WRE itself, (or ERE), such as an Exarchate in Africa, or some sort of Federation of the Civitates Italiae. (I would love to see that personally, it'd be an interesting polity for Italy), or...
The best way to achieve a long-term peaceful resolution will be an American Parliament as Benjamin Franklin pushed for, that handled local taxation, governance, etc - and sent a representative to the Kings privy council. Perhaps working in a Roman Consul model, two Americans, one year in the...
I wouldn't assume the Turks, but fundamentally, yeah, the next migratory group is likely to originate there. Which could be really interesting - with the Tang in China expanding westward, could they overextend, leading to the Alt-Turks going East instead? I think that would be an interesting...
I wish I new more than I did, but disease, or death in Aksum would serve as decent PoDs to get rid of Mohammed.
As for unifying, and expansion - I think we need to know the balance between the other camp followings besides Mohammed. Since OTL Mohammed unified the Arabs, I'd want to know if it...
I think there may be a chance for serious reform if you look for Federalisation just after the Punic Wars. If we can avoid the destruction of Carthage, but instead see it colonised we see a large Roman Republic with more than a few significant cities, that whilst beaten, are significant to Rome...
If there is a move to Sirmium, or away from Constantinople, I have little doubt that you're right that Slavicisation will happen. Maybe a Greek/Slavic hybrid will emerge (sort of in the way that English is a Saxon/French hybrid). "Roman" might not be a Latin language, there seems to be an irony...