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  1. WI: The Persians defeat the Muslims

    They’re not, they’re still ancient rivals. The arabs just add a piece of that in there.

  2. WI: The Persians defeat the Muslims

    Why would the Persians help the byzantines to take back their old territories.

  3. WI: The Persians defeat the Muslims

    I would say that there is plenty of effective ability to maintain the western conquests, even if Persia is cut off to them. Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa are all a pretty firm basis for an empire. This will have a major development on Islam as a religion and arab culture though...

  4. WI: Significant Technical Exchange Between Norse and Indigenous Americans

    Bump

  5. AHC: Earlier Empire originating in Ukraine and Volga basin

    The problem is that for the region, and specifically from the perspective of controlling the region, pastoral nomads have an innate advantage both in the sense that cavalry ruled the battlefield until well into the age of gunpowder. It’s the same advantage that the indo-Europeans themselves had...

  6. AHC: Earlier Empire originating in Ukraine and Volga basin

    The problem here is the nature of steppe lands and pastoral nomadic lifestyles. Both in the sense that it tends not to produce strong centralized states at all, and in the sense that because it is ideal land for herding and grazing, its benefits for agriculture aren’t really being expressed. And...

  7. Could a hegemonic City State dominate the Mediterranean

    Thats kind of what a hegemony of a single city across the Mediterranean is going to look like at a certain point. The reason rome became a territorial empire was largely due to the impossibility of having a purely hegemonic hold over an area as large as the Mediterranean, with stuff like the...

  8. WI: Bar Kokhba revolt is successful

    The only way for Judea to be meaningfully independent in the long term is if Roman power in the east as a whole is severely weakened. Judea isn’t in itself strong enough to maintain its independence from the whole rest of the eastern Mediterranean if the eastern Mediterranean, or any major...

  9. AHC: Earlier Empire originating in Ukraine and Volga basin

    Would it count if a Sarmatian ruler unites Sarmatia into a more distinctly united state?

  10. How would a surviving roman republic carry on?

    I’m a fan of Mary Beards argument that the Emperors were created by the empire, and in specific the extension of the way the provinces were ruled to Rome itself. There was no really worthwhile way to transfer the institutions of the roman republic into the governing system of the entire...

  11. WI: Significant Technical Exchange Between Norse and Indigenous Americans

    What it says on the tin, what if the Norse contact with the americas had facilitated a transfusion of old world technologies and domestic animals into the new world. Regardless of whether or not the Norse population in the americas is sustained for much longer than in OTL. This isn’t so much...

  12. Permanent division between Antony and Octavian, impact on Christianity

    The major problem there is that in itself, the eastern provinces are extraordinarily wealthy and for them to be de facto separated from the control of Rome would be a vast weakening of Rome that would outrage essentially every up and coming Roman aristocrat or equestrian looking to make their...

  13. ΙCΑΡΝΟΝΑΡΙΟΙ - The Lords of Iron

    This is great.

  14. What If: Cinna defeats Sulla in the Civil war

    Becuase its not a matter of powerful people using violence in exclusion. It’s also a matter of how Sulla reformed republican institutions and the political interests represented by Sulla, and the interests and reforms which were put forward by the Cinnan faction. I think its ultimately just...

  15. What If: Cinna defeats Sulla in the Civil war

    Sullas conception of republicanism was in itself deeply complicit in the collapse or the republic. The cinnan coalition represented a far more serious way forward in attempting to deal with the decay of Republican institutions in Rome.

  16. What If: Cinna defeats Sulla in the Civil war

    My phone fucked me over and corrected my bad spellings in unhelpful ways.

  17. What If: Cinna defeats Sulla in the Civil war

    He could fall off his horse and die, the point is the after .

  18. What if: Cinna Defeats Cinna In the First Civil War

    What it says on the tin.

  19. What If: Cinna defeats Sulla in the Civil war

    What it says above. What happens if Sulla is comprehensively beaten.

  20. The Great Crusade (Reds! Part 3)

    Hey, the former user here E. Burke asked me to ask "where the chat log is? The one about the pro-fascist propaganda film?"
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