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  1. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    As for resisting the Islamic invasion should the ATL version still take Egypt I think the best course in this case would be a look at the reasons OTL Tunisia fell to the Arabs. Loss of Internal Cohesion. Primarily that the Roman, Berber, and Greek sections of the local society were in...

  2. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    A good question is what could the various ATL African Diocese/Exarch/Kingdom’s relationships be with Constantinople in various scenarios. The Exarchate would have a more dependent srelationship but a Diocese originally tied to Rome or a Mauro-Roman Kingdom would have a more antagonistic...

  3. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    From an outsider view then most likely we would continue to see the Amazigh-Romans being referred to as Mauri (Moors) as though that specifically pertained to the Mauritania Moors it seems to have been popular enough among Latin writers of the timeframe to lump the “Numidian Amazigh” with the...

  4. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    Aren’t the Amazigh dialects mutually intelligible to one another? Therefore would an overall state push out the other dialects or would they adopt Latin as the Lingua Franca and lead to a French/Spanish situation develop.

  5. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    Perhaps something along the lines of. 418 - The Gothic War in Spain between the Romans and Visigoths versus the Alans and Vandals grounds down to a stalemate as while the Visigoths are able to push the other tribes out of eastern and southern Hispania they still main a grip over central and...

  6. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    Taking into account not just Tunisia but also Algeria and parts of Morocco I think we can see a good number of towns and cities throughout much of the coast and hinterlands of the barrier mountains

  7. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    I’d imagine we would get a Mauro-Roman style state across Tunisia and Algeria at the least. Of course this would also have ramifications for Morocco but regardless. I’d imagine the blended Amazigh/Latin language and the people themselves we could see would probably be classified as “Mauri” by...

  8. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    What I am thinking is that a good POD would focus around the Fall of the Diocese of Africa to the Vandals. As that appears to have been the major tipping point which saw the collapse of Roman influenced culture - and more importantly the increasing desertification of not just Tunisia but major...

  9. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    I was indeed slightly vague on purpose given them ambiguous or perhaps broad term of “European”. Overall I would say integrated into Europe on the whole political-economic-social spectrum. An early enough POD would probably require that to mean Christian up to at least modern times. Perhaps...

  10. Tunisia Remains A “European” Country

    I was looking at a map of the list of countries with Roman amphitheaters and Tunisia, owing to its historical close proximity to Rome, has a high number. So that got me thinking on what if Tunisia had remained a Romance-language speaking, Non-Arab country? Of course it doesn’t have to be the...

  11. Iran reverting to Zoroastrianism

    I would say a Zoroastrian religion with Islamic highlights could be possible if we take a syncretic route similar to how Islam and Christianity have developed. Though I’d think we would need a Great Man like figure in a position of power to get it going. Or indeed from an alternatively suggested...

  12. The First Voyage of Erik the Red: Vinland
    Threadmarks: Exile and Exploration: 1

    898 CE: Gunnbjorn Ulfsson and crew sight coast of Hrossvaland (Greenland) after their longship is blown west of Iceland. They do not land. 978 CE: Snaebjorn Galti completes first colonization effort of Hrossvaland, giving the island its name due to the abundance of “horses of the sea” or...

  13. The First Voyage of Erik the Red: Vinland

    Just yet another person taking a poke at a more permanent settlement of the Norse in North America. As in OTL the Greenland colonies were by dint of geography and climate abandoned as being fairly terrible places to settle given the lack of biodiversity and resources that worsened during the...

  14. Less successful Roman conquest of Britannia

    Indeed, that’s why I would believe a situation such as in Germania and Armenia would occur with Latinized Britons adopting aspects of the Roman culture. Probably focused on the main tribes that trade with the Romans. Leading to a certain amount of side eyeing by those tribes further away from...

  15. Less successful Roman conquest of Britannia

    Hah! I need a map where England is in place of Normandy.

  16. Less successful Roman conquest of Britannia

    Caesar did it when he invaded the second time.

  17. Less successful Roman conquest of Britannia

    The Romans did enforce tribes to become clients with them or at least accept peace terms that favored them on tribes across the Rhine without directly ruling them.

  18. Less successful Roman conquest of Britannia

    I mean in terms of the future. Right around the POD that is the case but as we have seen the development will eventually lead to the small tribes banding together and merging and eventually becoming larger entities. Perhaps the outside pressure of the Romans even leads to an earlier unified...

  19. Less successful Roman conquest of Britannia

    One could see a sort of factionalism eventually forming between Pro-Latin and Anti-Latin tribes and groups on the islands eventually. It wouldn’t be far fetched to say the Legions would return and put a Pro-Latin King on the Throne of a large tribe or kingdom or whatever forms. This could at...

  20. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    How are things in Texas? It appears to have come out of the whole war the least damaged of the Confederacy
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