Search results for query: *

Forum search Google search

  1. What If Antiochus IV Epiphanes Refuses to Turn Back?

    In 168 BC in OTL, Antiochus IV of the Seleucid Empire marched down the Levantine coast and was preparing to invade Egypt with a great host. He likely would have succeeded, had the Romans not sent an ambassador named Gaius Popillius Laenas to turn him aside. Laenas met Antiochus near the Nile...

  2. The Ten Thousand Greeks of Mesopotamia

    So how's about we discuss the possibility that, in an ATL where Cyrus the Younger defeats his brother Artaxerxes II, the 10,000 Greek mercenaries he brings perform so well that he decides to award them with land in Mesopotamia. This leads to a not insignificant state of Sparta-influenced...

  3. Mycenaean/Dorian Extremes

    So during the Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean, the Mycenaeans/Achaeans inhabiting much of what is now Greece found themselves invaded (whether all at once or slowly over a century or two is up for debate) by a wandering, barbarian people with no writing of their own or experience of building...

  4. Surviving Sumerian Culture and Society?

    What if, instead of the Semitic cupbearer Sargon taking power in Mesopotamia and forming the Akkadian Empire, a Sumerian cupbearer or general is just as competent, and forms a true Sumerian Empire? Will the unity of ruling and working classes (the Akkadian ruling class was not Sumerian) enable...

  5. Catilinarian Success Discussion

    So I've been thinking of doing a TL (the Naples one is pretty abandoned due to lack of knowledge of the period, lack of willingness to research the period, and lack of motivation to draw about twenty thousand family trees) about the Late Republic; I feel that TL's featuring Caesar the Dictator...

  6. Children of Roman Men and Female Slaves

    So I can't find sources on this anywhere, and I was really wondering, what was the status of children born to Roman citizens and female slaves? I don't mean prostitute-slaves that the man will never see again; I mean household slaves that will bear the child in that house. Will the child be born...

  7. Travel from Venice to Genoa

    So I was wondering, in both ancient and medieval times, what was the more efficient, cheap, and quick way to travel from Venice to Genoa or vice versa? Is it by sea down the Adriatic, around the Italian boot, and then up the Tyrrhenian Sea? Or is it up the Padus valley (very gentle, easy...

  8. La Sicile, C'est à Moi

    La Sicile, C'est à Moi King Charles's Everlasting Realm Moving House King Charles of Sicily The 27th of September, Anno Domini 1270 To Charles; King of Sicily and Naples; Count of Provence, Forcalquier, Anjou, and Maine; my Brother I have arrived safely and am well ensconced...

  9. No Sicilian Vespers

    Hey everybody, so I'm new here but I've been interested in history for a long time and I've been writing in an amateur way for forever--well, since I was about eight years old--and I want some advice or thoughts on the Sicilian Vespers. What if Charles of Anjou, upon becoming King of Sicily...
Top