Recent content by Theodoric

I think the 'polytheism' debate is a bit of a misdirection (honestly I don't think it's a useful framing ever, except as religious self-identification). What really matters is having a Christianity that is less inimical to outside religious traditions, including the worship of other deities...

You've given me a lot of things to consider here, thanks!

x I quite angry. Julian's Neoplatonic paganism was neither here nor there; not similar enough to older paganism to win over traditionalists whilst not having much of an edge over Christianity. Plus I have my own doubts about any religion inspired by something as arcane and intellectual as...

Judaism did end up spreading quite far into Ethiopia and Arabia but I'm not really sure that it had much of an impact in the Roman Empire itself. Maybe some Roman citizens took up the Noahide laws as a sort of mystery cult but I agree that it probably wasn't such a huge cultural force...

I wouldn't say so. There are arguments that any sort of monism is philosophically easier to argue (Neoplatonism has been brought up). But you can have 'monist' philosophical theory with polytheistic worship and practices. There are Hindu schools that are monist, for example, and Stoic beliefs in...

No they're not, I've had a quite succesful game as the Borjigin duke in 1066, claiming my ruler's title, deposing him, and a few generations later, reforming the Tengri faith and establishing the Mongol Empire through the decision (which has High Federative succesion, which is great). The only...

'Development' isn't a straight line. Even the idea of 'progress' being this automatic always-forward-moving thing is problematic. Historiographically, it's fallacious and somewhat backwards-projecting. You might as well ask why it took us so long to develop nuclear weapons, when we have been...

Who names their MBT 'Dog'?

Still amazing that it spread so far despite being so relatively minor. I guess it must've had a real competitive edge for it to have such an impact on human genetics.

It's easier to pronounce than Republic of the Gariep/ Garieprepubliek, anyway.

Wouldn't the Orange River be more symbolic, then? Oranjerepubliek? Maybe a bit Free State-ish, but it's got a nice ring to it.

Second- or third-in-lines to the throne going wild because they have nothing to do besides waiting is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's just a very unhealthy combination of wealth and idleness, and a problem even a lot of modern monarchies haven't solved out. TTL Margaret will still be...

The armament is on the heavy side. Both the E-50 and the E-75 were supposed to be armed with 88mm L/71 cannon, with (IIRC) an option for a 10.5 cm cannon for the E-75. Also, the E-25 as a medium tank seems rather superfluous by the mid 1940s, even as a lighter alternative to the rather heavy...

During the Spanish period (especially after the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549) the Netherlands weren't that strongly tied to the HRE. The Northern Netherlands left automatically despite themselves claiming full legal continuity, while the Spanish Netherlands were always Spanish first, Burgundian...