Recent content by Kalontas

Germany and Lithuania had their sights on Poland throughout the fractured period, so if it continues for much longer, we'll likely see half the country turn into a "Slavic March" of some kind, and eastern or northern parts fall under Lithuania, which is turning Orthodox. In the long term, it...

Actually, I think there are separate modifiers in religions for parent-child and sibling marriage.

You know, I think people are too fixated on this approach. Reality is not a Paradox game where the moment you include a discordant factor everything goes completely off-the-rails. Things happen in history for a reason. The emergence of Islam wasn't an accident, it was a result of hundreds upon...

Usually it's because pigs are considered unclean, for a combination of the reasons you mention. It's such a common thing in the ancient Middle East I doubt you can avoid it.

For me personally it's mostly American history. As a non-American, pretty much all I know is "Americans kicked the Brits out, then committed genocide on the natives a couple of times, then they fought each other for the right to keep humans as property, then they conquered half of Mexico, and...

Eventually, the remains of Roman Empire will fall apart and Alan Britain will be left to its own devices. Which, in the long run, means Alans running things in their own way. The end result won't be much more Roman in nature than, say, Spain.

Occupation during wars wasn't supposed to count.

Poland should be Russia-colored, since its last independence is 1918, from Russia, Austria and Germany at the same time, with its core being in Russian hands. I know people like to quote 1989 as an independence but it was technically a sovereign state in communist era, not part of USSR.

I remember reading about the ancient Israel struggling at one point with cults that still worshiped Asherah (El's or Yahweh's wife and queen) even in the era when the divine cult was reserved to El Elyon (but before the existence of other gods was completely denied). Perhaps those cults can spin...

I didn't forget anything. There's just a lot of various peoples in there, so I mentioned a few as examples.

Most Slavs and Hungarians easily, due to the influences present in OTL. Same goes for at least Lithuanians, and possibly other Balts if more Slavs go orthodox. For Venice and Finns you'd have to work a bit, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility IMO. Not in the poll: Khazars, Pechenegs...

The Native American nations always get steamrolled. And not even by Mexico, which was the biggest threat to them, but by a giant, libertarian Anglo republic. I mean, how would they even get to Dinetah? By buying Louisiana from France? Where would they get that kind of money?

Modern nations often consider themselves successors of many silly things, doesn't make it accurate to call them that. There was no such thing as Ukraine - just slowly mongolizing nomads in the Steppe part of modern day Ukraine, and a few "Russian" principalities.

Eventually, Slavs. IOTL, they got all the way to Greece and only continuous Byzantine efforts managed to "re-hellenize" the majority of it. Without Byzantium, Greece and most of the Balkans become fully Slavic. Who knows how far they go, maybe we can even have a Slavic nation in Anatolia.

I think having discernible Middle Ages and Rome at once can have Roman Empire be a rump state at best. Kind of a Holy Roman Empire Situation, except with titular caesars controlling Italia but not much else.