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    Anno Mahometi: A Islamic Timeline

    I am sorry, but I am at a mess about the dates. I mean A.P.R., A.M.D. doesn't mean anything to me, though I know it's cool and nice looking. Wouuld you please to give modern dates somewhere in sidenotes or brackets for us common folks? That would be easier to understand. Thank you very much.
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    The Amalingian Empire: The Story of the Gothic-Roman Empire

    Yes, Admiral Matt, I agree with all your reasoning. DanMcCollum did create a situation which couldn't take place in the ERE, no way. Never, ever. And that is sometimes frustrating to see such mistakes in TLs. But such critique might be usefull for DanMcCollum - to read good history books on the...
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    Battle of the Catalaunian Plains: Theodoric survives, Attila dies

    I remembered how in OTL one of Attila's sons was defeated by the (Eastern) Romans and beheaded. His head on a pike was paraded in Constantinople and placed in a circus for everybody to see. It was a great joy for the crowds. And I imagined Attila's head on a pike in Rome in ATL. That would...
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    Widespread slave revolt in Ancient Rome 3rd-4th century AD

    300-450 AD? That's not 'ancient' Rome. That's late Empire. Contrary to popular belief the Roman Empire was not full of slaves since the very beginning till the very end. That's what you sometimes see on TV though. There were a lot of slaves (proportionally) in 100 B.C. - 100 A.D. roughly...
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    Middle Ages: Economics of Slavery vs Serfdom

    I made a few sentences out of a few pages of the same book, they answer some unanswered questions: THE CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EUROPE VOLUME I THE AGRARIAN LIFE OF THE MIDDLE AGES CHAPTER VI III The decline of slavery The decline of slavery is incontestably one of the most notable facts...
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    Middle Ages: Economics of Slavery vs Serfdom

    I am afraid your question is not too correct. 1) It depends on your definition of "Middle Ages" of course, but whatever it is we are speaking about a very long time period - a millennium(!). Even the common sense suggests that things (including Slavery and Serfdom) were not static and there...
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    PC: Reverse Mongol conquest

    What is the plausibility? Well, if some nomadic people in the East had been given the 'Great Man' like Chengizz Khan, they might have achieved something spectacular, I guess. But anyway I am afraid that plausibility is close to zero. It doesn't look like a coincidence that since somewhere...
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    The Southern Roman Empire

    CHAPTER 41 In 650 A.D. the Khazar qagan moved his armies into Arab Mesopotamia and Iran. Muawiyah consolidated his power in Syria and started taking Egypt from other hostile Arab factions. Qagan Bayan had a busy year as well. After the battle, and after distribution of plunder, the...
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    AHQ: Was the Edict of Caracalla worth it?

    It depends on your definition of 'empire'...
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    AHQ: Was the Edict of Caracalla worth it?

    Yes, I think, something like that.
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    AHQ: Was the Edict of Caracalla worth it?

    That's the most obscure issue for me. I mean in the Roman Empire (by Caracalla's time) everybody paid taxes. And since the very beginning it was the (Roman) citizens who were conquerors and it was non-citizens who were conquered (or at least acknowledged the Roman power). How could that happen...
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    Roman slaves: chattel or proletarians?

    I am afraid that is a gross exaggeration. There is a distance of two light years between "if freed the slaves become citizens" and "if freed the slaves might become citizens" From all I know that's the latter, which is true. There was no law or anything like that that the freed slaves...
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    The Southern Roman Empire

    I don't concentrate on the inner politics of Caliphate. Actually I cannot be more specific and detailed. As the PoD was a few centuries ago so if the Caliphate appeared, their history is supposed to be totally unrecognizable from OTL. That's a conservative, traditional, orthodox point of view...
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    The Southern Roman Empire

    Yes, overall the Turks probably got less men in reserve. But the Avars are working on it, recruiting and training Slavs. If the Khazars go on winning and getting easy loot, they might attract numerous Turkic tribes of the Great Eurasian Steppe, part of which they own and have a border with...
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    The Southern Roman Empire

    Oh, thanks, I did my research ))
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    The Southern Roman Empire

    CHAPTER 40 BAYAN'S THREE SONS, AVAR MILITARY REFORMS The Khazar cagan proclaimed himself shahanshah, and he (with all his extended family) adopted Zoroastrianism with an evident intention to make Zoroastrianism an official state religion of the Khazar Empire. The Avar cagan proclaimed himself...
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    The Southern Roman Empire

    CHAPTER 39 QAGANS MEET TO DECIDE THEIR FURTHER ACTIONS The meeting of the two victorious cagans took place in the huge golden tent of Bayan; that was on the Avar territory, so Bayan played host. The war started fortunately for the khanates, an elite Arab army was totally annihilated. There...
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    The Southern Roman Empire

    CHAPTER 38 FATE OF ARAB INFANTRY ARMY Khazar and Avar/Bulgar cavalry moved South to find the Arab infantry army. According to evidence of the Arab prisoners it was located not far away, supposedly a week’s ride for cavalry. About 20 000 elite Muslim foot troops was a force to be reckoned...
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    The Southern Roman Empire

    CHAPTER 37 AFTER BATTLE: SHARING LOOT, REWARDING After a moment of the greatest joy, when the last Arab had been stabbed or cut, the Khazars moved towards the Muslim camp, expecting the most natural reward of the winners. But it was already firmly taken by the Avars, and the rest of the Avar...
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    The Southern Roman Empire

    Make your bets :)
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