Recent content by adrian101a

reply well what a grown up response that is it wouldnt surprise me if you were some stupid fat kid with nothin better to do in the school holidays than this, only breakin when mommy brings you a cup of tea

reply of course im not saying social forces never change THERE WOULD BE NO HISTORY WITHOUT THEM if you read what i say im point to the way that changing social forces make the dutch and english mercantile class vastly more productive than in spain there are deep cultural and social reasons why...

boredbydrivel you show no understanding of the historical forces at work your reply is a distortion of facts, a misinterpretation of history and a glib euphoric rant the fact is that spainish society was backward compared to england and holland you cant compare the economic / commercial...

reply the vision constantine claimed to see was ploy to support christianity in rome something that constantine saw as a potentially unifying the idea was in his head before the so called vision

reply look its completely fanciful to suggest rome could have advanced into the ukraine, they couldnt even hold dacia

reply your missing the point spain didnt get to the point of power you outline it couldnt have avoided the wars of religion, if it hadnt taken part it would have declined even quicker you present a view of history that is anti historical massive social forces pushed spain in the direction it...

reply it would have been unthinkable that spain would have remained neutral in the religious wars that embroiled europe secondly if you propose that spain avoids marrying into the habsburg quagmire, the same logic would have prevented them from ever becoming a big power thirdly the...

ok worth a try though forget the papacy, i wasnt suggesting moving the papacy, it didnt exist aix le chappele becomes the centre of the church in the west and the byzantines, well they dont give a damn the fact is that the bishop of rome was only one of many popes and your missing...

the papacy 1) the title pope was never tied to being the bishop of rome but to the claim of being the spiritual successor to st peter, who in turn had claimed that Jesus bestowed apostolic powers oon him, yes rome was powerless so neither the byzantines or the franks had much motivation to...

hi i have a mind that generates ideas dont be arrogant sonny boy punctuation who cares

reply to max germania yeh essentially they have fundamental structural economic problems gaul is rich agriculturaly germania is still very heavily forested question is could they generate the will to rapidly develop agriculture and encourage local tribes to turn to farming maybe but caledonia...

reply the term emporer of the HRE was a worthless invention, charlemagne was king of the franks and the papacy was dependent on his favour for their survival well ok charlemagne realises the danger of dividing his empire and alters the laws of succession p.s im here for a serious discussion and...

reply the term emporer of the HRE was a worthless invention, charlemagne was king of the franks and the papacy was dependent on his favour for their survival well ok charlemagne realises the danger of dividing his empire and alters the laws of succession p.s im here for a serious discussion and...

thanx OK its a WI that radically alters the history of europe and the world france would have been hard pressed to fight england as well

hi the problem is that german nationalism is gonna tie germany to the defence of the archaic austro hungarian empire, which in turn is going 2 end up in war with russia germanys best option is call a conference with russia and brealk the ah empire up, bohemia moravia and austria join the german...