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  1. Spartacus, Cilician Pirates and Rome's Other Problems.

    Most would agree that Spartacus' rebellion was ultimately doomed to failure, given that Rome had vast reserves of manpower to throw against them, and had much to lose if they didn't do anything about him quickly enough. I was wondering how quickly the Roman Republic could decline if Sparatcus...

  2. Investiture Controversy in the Emperor's Favour.

    What if the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV was able to take the upper-hand over Pope Gregory VII and the church reforms he advocated? And how would he or future emperors be able to retain their control over holders of the Papal office?

  3. British (or any) Royal Family's Descendance from Genghis Khan.

    I keep hearing this from time-to-time, and tried to look into the family trees of the Windsors, Rurikids, Romanovs and the Jochid lines. All I could find was Yury Danilovich of Moscows marriage with Konchaka, Uzbeg Khan's sister, which produced no children as she died as a prisoner of her...

  4. Ming Hegemony of the Indian Ocean.

    What if either the Hongxi Emperor, son of the Yongle Emperor (or if not him than one of his brothers succeeding instead), maintained interest in China's navy and its explorations in the "Western Ocean"? Would China take to policing the trade routes of the Indian Ocean, and prevent or delay...

  5. Extending Athenian Citizenship

    The Athenians, like most Greeks, had a primordial view of citizenship, basing it on ancestry. Few people in Athen's history were granted it, such as Pasion and Pericles the Younger. This was granted occasionally by the state to individuals for services rendered, or through patronage. However...

  6. Continuing Independence of Pashalik of Yanina

    What would be necessary for the semi-autonomous Eyalet (province) of Yanina, under the governorship of the Muslim Albanian Ali Pasha of Tepelena to endure and become a proper state after the collapse of Ottoman authority in the Balkans?

  7. Maritime Republics in Northern Europe circa 800 CE

    Would have been possible to have established any powerful maritime city-states from anywhere between Ireland and Scandinavia? Places like Swedish trading centre of Birka located in Lake Malaren?

  8. Surviving Maroon State in Brazil

    How would the Quilombo dos Palmares be able to delay or prevent for a time the Portuguese conquest of their territory in 1694?

  9. Prince Juan of Asturias lives

    If Prince Juan (1478-97), the only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, didn't die at nineteen of either Tuberculosis or "sexual over-exertion" and continues to live a long time afterwards, the Burgundian Netherlands never pass into Spanish possession, which at least frees...

  10. Numidian Physical Appearance

    I've had trouble trying to pin down the the actual appearance of the North African Numidians. I don't know if they were as olive-skinned as most modern day Libyans are or if the were in fact black-skinned. Perhaps they were ethnically heterogenous as present day Amazighen populations? Coins of...

  11. WI: Independent Seleucid Egypt.

    The main obstacle to all this would be the Roman's interest in Hellenistic politics. But if Rome was unable to intervene in Diadochi business for whatever reason, and Anticochus would have succeeded in taken Egypt in 200 BCE. Would Antiochus III be convinced to divvy up his empire among his...

  12. Magna Carta and Angevin possessions.

    Even if King John retained his Norman and Angevin territories in France, could a situation still occur leading to the forced signing of the Magna Carta? And what would it mean for the futures of France and England if they fall under the virtual dominance of an empowered Baronial class which...

  13. WI: William IX, Count of Poitiers survives childhood?

    Young Prince William was the firstborn son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was born on the 17th of August 1153, but died after a seizure in April 1156. He was only ever given the honour of being the Count of Poitiers, a fiefdom belonging to his mother. Having died at such...

  14. WI: Premature death of Robert Curthose.

    In OTL, during a rebellion between 1077-79, at a siege at the town of Gerberoy, William I of England is fighting his rebellious son, Robert, during a sortie from the castle at Gerberoy. In battle, the two seemed to have personally fought, where Robert unhorses his old man and nearly kills him...

  15. Angevin France

    If Louis VII's son Philip dies in the womb, this exposes the lands of the French Royal Demesne and the throne to conflict among the leading noble houses in France on the death of the old king in 1180. Lets say as Henry II of England, with the combined resources of his various realms, invades...

  16. WI: Dolphins or Orcas had hands?

    There was no apparent enviromental-based factors that entered into marine mammals into developing prehensile appendages. But IF they did, would Orcas or Dolphins, in order to settle and build and manufacture, be living so far out to sea? And might they, presumably crawling with their hands...

  17. Wi: Roger of Sicily becomes King of Jerusalem?

    I had tried positing this scenario earlier. In 1112, Baldwin I of Jerusalem got married to Adelaide del Vasto, the widow of Count Roger I of Sicily, and mother of Roger II, by then in his majority. Baldwin was already married to the Armenian Princess Arda, back when he was Count of Edessa, but...

  18. Permanent Delian League.

    The other day, I posted on that the Athenian occupation of Sicily wouldn't be possible, due to the relatively small numbers of Athenian citizenry, and the exclusionary hereditary nature of Greek polis citizenship. So I was wondering which select Athenian politicians could have instigated...

  19. WI: Roger II inherits Jerusalem.

    WI: Roger II inherits Jerusalem? Adelaide del Vasto, the widow of Count Roger I of Sicily, mother of its future king, Roger II, was once married to Baldwin I of Jerusalem between 1112-1117. The marriage was beneficial in most ways to Baldwin. The then-County of Sicily was wealthy, and...

  20. Suviving Jewish Temple

    This question is for a part of the TL I'm currently working on. If a different state, maybe in Arabia, were to convert top-to-bottom to Judaism as early as the First Century BCE, and maintained links with the old Temple and Sanhedrin in occupied Judea, would it be possible for the priesthood to...
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