So I was wondering what are the possibilities of Gabriele D'Annunzio forming a fascist government instead of Mussolini, either before Mussolini's rise to power or substituting him. D'Annunzio was the biggest power of nationalism in Italy after World War 1 and his Impresa di Fiume (his taking...
I think you would have to have a pretty early PoD, Ottoman time, when Islam was furthest in Europe and closest to conquering Poland(which is easily possible), wouldn't really work, even if they conquered Poland it was completely against their way of governing.
While there is a time period for...
I cant see it happening early on, there was too much anger for it to work until much later, when a lot of the feelings had been deadened by time. By 1900's I could see one, but not much earlier then that
While I do think that for the vast majority something like marriage would not come about from from Athens or Sparta, the one caveat I would have on that is the Sacred Band of Thebes, one of the strangest military forces ever. I know some debate wither it actually existed at all, but if you take...
I get all that but the timeframe that the Reconquista of North Africa would have to be after the Recoquista of Iberia was finished, and that would mean that any attack would have to be later the 1500's when I doubt there were many Christians at all.
However looking at the original post it...
if somehow the Europeans still discovered Americas in 1492, without gunpowder, early on i dont think there would be much difference, the diseases would still be there and the steel and horses were bigger for shock at first. However, I think in the long term the Natives would have a better shot...
was the any wide knowledge that North Africa had been Christinized at the time, it would be hard to have a Reconquista if most of the population though it had always been Islamic. I can see it happening though expansion of there North African bases, treating the public much better and a larger...
I dont think many were for detering crime, I alway saw them as a way to show the people who was in charge and for many to satisfy them if something bad happened. In those areas I think they were successful.
I could see early no Greek Fire actually be much more effective in battles then gunpowder. It will take at least a century to be able to handle gunpowder units so it all depends on the exact years. Also, it would be much easier for the Arabs to get how to make gunpowder then Greek Fire, which...
Thats definitely true, but I'm not sure if it's fisable to do it that way. The Crusades were so stuck in the idea of holy war and I'm not sure they would be able to treat the Muslims well enough that they would want to convert within a reasonable time frame. And even if they did, it would take...
I dont know how fiasable this is but it always seems that the problem for the Crusader States was manpower, the Teutonic States and Spain were both successfully Christianize because of immigration. So what if Urban instead of just offered indulgences for the pilgrimage, offered some sort of...
The fact that it is called lingua franca in the first place says that its very easy for another language to become most popular. French shockingly seems most likely, have them win a couple of the Wars against Britain and be stronger in driving there citizens to colonize and you could easily...
I understand the Empire is not the same as the current state, I said that last post, my point with that is that I thought that the nobles were Islamic which is really all you need for a religion to diffuse through the country, sure it dident that time, but the point still shows it has worked...
There vassal pirate groups could do it but why, anything that was worth raiding would be shiped back to Europe and could be raided closer to the coast, I know that the pirates occasionaly went to the Atlantic, and with the habit of taking the boats they could easily travel to North America, I...
I put Austerlitz because is Austerlitz, how can you not. However, I've always been impressed by the Battle of the Pyramids, and sure, its not the best enemy, but 23 deaths for at least 3000 has always impressed me.