Deleted member 148213
Essentially, OTL Europe has no clear ethnic majority; for most of history, the French and the Germans both were above 20% of the continent's population, but even 25% is a rather small fraction, and as we can see OTL, this was insufficient to dominate continental Europe.
The goal here is to change that- with a POD after 350 AD, change the late classical period and early middle ages such that an ethnic group in Europe comprises a larger share of the continent's populations than French or Germans ever did OTL.
To clarify some things:
First, I realize that in the middle ages, the concept of ethnicity was not the same as in our time, and the concept of "nationality" as in German or French was absent, but that isn't the point- the point is to lay down the cultural amd linguisitc groundwork in Europe that may allow for this larger state to form sometime in the future ITL.
Secondly, if Russia is included, it is very easy to simply include Belarus and Ukraine within it and quickly achieve this requirement- a state of that size in Eastern Europe is obviously a very formidable power in Europe at large, as the past two centuries have shown, but for the sake of novelty, this path of just having a really large East Slavic nation will not count.
The goal here is to change that- with a POD after 350 AD, change the late classical period and early middle ages such that an ethnic group in Europe comprises a larger share of the continent's populations than French or Germans ever did OTL.
To clarify some things:
First, I realize that in the middle ages, the concept of ethnicity was not the same as in our time, and the concept of "nationality" as in German or French was absent, but that isn't the point- the point is to lay down the cultural amd linguisitc groundwork in Europe that may allow for this larger state to form sometime in the future ITL.
Secondly, if Russia is included, it is very easy to simply include Belarus and Ukraine within it and quickly achieve this requirement- a state of that size in Eastern Europe is obviously a very formidable power in Europe at large, as the past two centuries have shown, but for the sake of novelty, this path of just having a really large East Slavic nation will not count.