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  1. Poland is still fragmented at 15th Century

    Germany and Lithuania had their sights on Poland throughout the fractured period, so if it continues for much longer, we'll likely see half the country turn into a "Slavic March" of some kind, and eastern or northern parts fall under Lithuania, which is turning Orthodox. In the long term, it...

  2. Crusader Kings II - Paradox Entertainement (02/12)

    Actually, I think there are separate modifiers in religions for parent-child and sibling marriage.

  3. Asia without Buddhism

    You know, I think people are too fixated on this approach. Reality is not a Paradox game where the moment you include a discordant factor everything goes completely off-the-rails. Things happen in history for a reason. The emergence of Islam wasn't an accident, it was a result of hundreds upon...

  4. How did the pork taboo come about?

    Usually it's because pigs are considered unclean, for a combination of the reasons you mention. It's such a common thing in the ancient Middle East I doubt you can avoid it.

  5. Historical Blind Spots

    For me personally it's mostly American history. As a non-American, pretty much all I know is "Americans kicked the Brits out, then committed genocide on the natives a couple of times, then they fought each other for the right to keep humans as property, then they conquered half of Mexico, and...

  6. WI: Alannic Britain

    Eventually, the remains of Roman Empire will fall apart and Alan Britain will be left to its own devices. Which, in the long run, means Alans running things in their own way. The end result won't be much more Roman in nature than, say, Spain.

  7. Map Thread XIII

    Occupation during wars wasn't supposed to count.

  8. Map Thread XIII

    Poland should be Russia-colored, since its last independence is 1918, from Russia, Austria and Germany at the same time, with its core being in Russian hands. I know people like to quote 1989 as an independence but it was technically a sovereign state in communist era, not part of USSR.

  9. Female Monotheistic God?

    I remember reading about the ancient Israel struggling at one point with cults that still worshiped Asherah (El's or Yahweh's wife and queen) even in the era when the divine cult was reserved to El Elyon (but before the existence of other gods was completely denied). Perhaps those cults can spin...

  10. What peoples could have plausibly have chosen Greek Orthodox over Latin Christianity?

    I didn't forget anything. There's just a lot of various peoples in there, so I mentioned a few as examples.

  11. What peoples could have plausibly have chosen Greek Orthodox over Latin Christianity?

    Most Slavs and Hungarians easily, due to the influences present in OTL. Same goes for at least Lithuanians, and possibly other Balts if more Slavs go orthodox. For Venice and Finns you'd have to work a bit, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility IMO. Not in the poll: Khazars, Pechenegs...

  12. AH Cliches from Alternate Worlds

    The Native American nations always get steamrolled. And not even by Mexico, which was the biggest threat to them, but by a giant, libertarian Anglo republic. I mean, how would they even get to Dinetah? By buying Louisiana from France? Where would they get that kind of money?

  13. Galicia-Volhynia remains strong and independent in the 14th Century

    Modern nations often consider themselves successors of many silly things, doesn't make it accurate to call them that. There was no such thing as Ukraine - just slowly mongolizing nomads in the Steppe part of modern day Ukraine, and a few "Russian" principalities.

  14. AHC: Total Roman Collapse

    Eventually, Slavs. IOTL, they got all the way to Greece and only continuous Byzantine efforts managed to "re-hellenize" the majority of it. Without Byzantium, Greece and most of the Balkans become fully Slavic. Who knows how far they go, maybe we can even have a Slavic nation in Anatolia.

  15. Middle Ages w/ intact Roman Empire

    I think having discernible Middle Ages and Rome at once can have Roman Empire be a rump state at best. Kind of a Holy Roman Empire Situation, except with titular caesars controlling Italia but not much else.

  16. Is it possible to maintain contact between the Americas and Eurasia early on?

    If it was possible to maintain that low level of contact, makes you wonder how much would our two sides influence each other. Romans can't invade the Americas because it's still too far for big fleets and armies, but what about Christianity? You could get Christian missionaries in 4th century to...

  17. Is it possible to maintain contact between the Americas and Eurasia early on?

    So as we all know, the Americas had the misfortune of getting the short end of the stick in the clash of two isolated civilization circles that happened with the Columbian Exchange. I tried to think of various ways of maintaining the cultural diversity of the Americas and avoiding the...

  18. Christian West Africa

    Even on this oversimplified map, most of Ghana's territory lies in the muslim area. FYI, the old Ghana (the one that is the subject here) was located closer to modern Mali.

  19. Will the us ever formalize relations with the condefedracey after a southern victory

    My personal favorite ultimate fate for the CSA is a slave rebellion toppling the government and turning it into a black-dominated country that remains somewhat racist against whites for a while. I imagine that version of CSA would keep open relations with the Union.

  20. Eastern Europe and the Balkans islamised

    Yes, I missed some details but the point is the same - incompatible life style. I can't think of a way for Bolghars to be powerful enough to take on Rus. Maybe a more expansionist ruler gets them to conquer a good part of the Caspian Steppe a generation or two before Vladimir the Great, or...
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