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  1. What if the byzantine empire survived until the modern day? (discussion)

    Basically the best late Byzantine pod is Andronikos III and John Kantakouzenis let’s say andronikos doesn’t die of Malaria and maybe the Byzantine’s manage to somehow hold back the ottomans at Nikomedia, I can see such a state with no ensuing Byzantine civil war be able to take control of Greece...

  2. How Right is Jared Diamond

    I’d say he is a geographer examining history but right now regarding divergence and paths of development the mainstream is dominated by economic history more specifically the school of thoughts following the consensus which is the Maddison/Allen/Broadberry view that argues wages factor prices...

  3. What if Napoleon didn't invade Spain in 1808?

    No t the whole reason they revolted our timeline is because when the French overthrew the royal family Ferdinand promised the Cortes in America that they would be given lots of rights and autonomy in return for being loyal to the the Spanish bourbons they agreed and soon these Cortes became...

  4. AHC: William Wallace as King of Scotland

    He was already regent/gaurdien of Scotland in 1297 so let’s say he manages to win a descisive at the battle of fallkirk this leads to the English being forced to retreat and as a result Wallace is able to solidify his claim to the title of regent. Then after winning more victories against the...

  5. Discussion: Who had the WORST claims to being the successor of the Roman Empire?

    Now had mehmed bothered to revive the roman senate/keep it and have it recognize him as Basileous then sure Ottomans can claim title but since you can have only one Basileous at a time unless second Basileous died due to nature of roman emperor title being a universal one given head of the...

  6. Discussion: Who had the WORST claims to being the successor of the Roman Empire?

    Well the Roman Empire was not an empire as we know it. It was founded on a legal basis by Augustus by which I mean the title of imperator was basically the creation of a position that had a bunch of other former legal positions in the roman senate be vested to a single individual who just so...

  7. Discussion: Who had the WORST claims to being the successor of the Roman Empire?

    Yeah that is why my conclusion is ultimately roman empire is dead legal standpoint. When the senate in constantinople ended/did not acclaim Mehmed as Roman Emperor and Constantine XI died the title died with him. At least the original Roman Empire title created by Augustus that was then legally...

  8. Discussion: Who had the WORST claims to being the successor of the Roman Empire?

    And given the Hapsburg didn’t use it later on or the bourbons it was for the most part destroyed if not used officially hence there was no Roman Empire it ended when the title fell out of use/was destroyed by whatever Spanish monarch

  9. Discussion: Who had the WORST claims to being the successor of the Roman Empire?

    Like in other thread legalistic is only valid claim to Roman Empire title because Roman Empire was a legal institution created by Augustus and all emperors afterward whether they tried to make it heriditary or not had to have a legal basis for why they were allowed to ascend to the purple. What...

  10. Why the Ottoman Empire is not a continuation of Roman Empire

    The problem is legal. Roman Empire was a legal institution created by Augustus. Not dynastic or even by right of conquest or even religious. What this means is that from the perspective of Roman law/Justinianic code reforms the Eastern Roman Empire was the Roman Empire because the empire was...

  11. WI in Ottoman Byzantine war Mongol Aide arrives in time

    In otl Maria Paleologina married Abaqa Khan of the Mongol Empire and later the Byzantines entered into negotations to get her married to Charbanda the future Mongol Khan and the mongols sent 30k troops in 1307. Let us say that the mongol force arrives in time and the Ottomans fail to take...

  12. Constantinople does not fall during the Fourth Crusade

    Yes but problem you see is the Byzantine lost control of the seas what that meant is they had no way of opposing Venice or Genoa. Without control of the seas the byzantines can’t do anything really and would be taken over in time. Yes some of these generals were amazing but remember most of them...

  13. Iberia based WRE

    Not neccessarily OTL the Romans lost most of Italy to the Lombards and later the Franks and Arabs. A POD with Spania province is easily doable if Arabs were as successfull as OTL in taking much of North Africa. and the Med islands which in turn would anyway cut off the Romans in Hispania from...

  14. AHC Great Prussian Uprisings of 13th Century Succeed

    So here is the challenge otl the teutons and other crusaders successfully put down the great Prussian Uprisings of the 13th century but in the 1260s they were nearly driven out of the Baltic. Find a way for the Prussians and other baltic tribes to succeed against the Crusaders and if so could we...

  15. Constantinople does not fall during the Fourth Crusade

    Eastern Roman history has a great vid on this topic by 1204 there was no real Byzantine empire. Alexius iii fled and established himself at Thessaloniki. A bunch of Greek warlords in Rhodes Crete Cyprus and Epirus etc had declared their independence for the most part from the center. Attalia...

  16. Iberia based WRE

    What you could have is something like a Wre in Spain. Let us say that in 7th century Spania manages to repel sisbut expeditions into Byzantine Spania province. let’s say their is some successfull Byzantine commander in the area or possibly earlier they are more successful in Spain post...

  17. Who was the historical Krishna?

    Yes the simlest explanation is he was a king of one of the vedic states in India who was quite successful and had his exploits euologized like how say for example Alexander or some of the more ancient figures in history be it founder of yamato or first king of China etc was eulogized. That would...

  18. Who was the historical Krishna?

    He was an avatar of Vishnu a vedic god the original krishna. Basically the real Krishna was a person who became King of the Kingdom of Dwarka and participated in the Kurukshetra war on the side of the pandavas sometime between 3000-800 b.c.e exact dating doesnt really matter since the edic and...

  19. Le rêve d'un Corse: A Napoleonic TL

    right and also technically it wasnt napoleon who killed Louis so I think his marriage to a bourbon princess may win him back support from monarchists loyal to the bourbons since technically the heir of the princess and Napoleon would have bourbon blood albeit not from male descent so they may...

  20. Le rêve d'un Corse: A Napoleonic TL

    Well perhaps one benefit of the marriage would be when he grows tired of the incompetant spanish monarch Ferdinand he can press his claim to the Spanish throne more successfully and win local support for the french cause given his marriage to a bourbon princess. Maybe it would make peninsular...
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