enlightenment

Despite the portrayal of the "Illuminati" in modern popular culture, they were indeed a real secret society during the Enlightenment era. Their aim was to counter superstition, obscurantism, the influence of religion (especially that of the Jesuits), and the abuses of power. These progressive...

The Masks of The Shadow Prince Chapter 1: A Boy and His Little Brother Grand Library, Topkapi Palace, Constantinople, somewhere in 1600 "Allah be Merciful, why another brother... Not a sister that I can finally cherish?" said the thirteen years old Prince Mahmud as he leaned his head on the...

As someone witnessing the cracking apart of Western civilization, I feel that the snowball began with the Enlightenment. As much as it built the West, it tore down tradition and other things that kept things stable. And proponents of the Enlightenment were hypocritical, as when the Haitian...

Like it says on the tin. I suppose they could've done it during the Fantastic War, assuming the Spanish invasion is more successful and they capture Lisbon? Would they return to Europe as soon as things cooled down, or would they stay in America for longer, like how John VI did? @Lusitania

With a PoD between 1789 and 1815, is it possible for Spain to fall to a French-style republican revolution (deposing the monarchy and nobility, instituting a new national identity, commitment to spreading the rebellion, etc.), mostly through internal instability, a republican French invasion, or...

Now what I'm asking u is to create one or more POD to wank or expand the influence that the Enlightenment had in Europe. I'm especially talking about politics but obviously multiple areas will be affected, from art to culture I'm also working on a map so stay tuned

Iceland was ruled by mainland Scandinavian powers from the end of the Sturlung Era until 1944, but in 1809, there was a little-known attempt by a Danish explorer named Jørgen Jørgensen to establish an independent state after the governer wouldn't permit trade, apparently with the intention of...

Obviously today Egypt is primarily Sunni Muslim, and overwhelmingly Abrahamic. With a PoD of no earlier than 1550 is it possible for the role of conventional Islam to be diminished in favour of animistic deification of cats in the manner of Bastet during the pre-Hellenistic period? I suppose...

Hello, it is with great pleasure that we finally start posting the revised and updated "Rebirth of an Empire". To those not familiar with the original TL is it centered on Portugal and its empire. The TL starts in 1750 at the start of Joseph I reign and the appointment of the relative unknown...

Throughout history many civilisations* were on the cusp of either a pseudo-enlightment or industrial revolution, but then wobbled back due to politics, warfare, plague, etc. Is there any way to get the major shift of the 18th and 19th century to not (really) happen? Would it take a second black...