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I'd also say the rise of professional(-ish) armies. When the lord/knight isn't required to potential sacrifice his life for the sake of the others in combat to keep his side of the deal anymore, the arrangement kinda falls apart. [Added] @cincpac overboard if you want to link this to religious...

Medieval Europe covers a long time & a lot of land, it was certainly not a uniform period. That said, if your mental image is what I think it's like, that's more of a Early Modern/Modern thing, but even that, pop culture like to massively overblow. But, generally most of the middle ages was...

Sure, the initial spread my not be effected much, but once people start trying to figure out what they believe in, it will either not be the Christianity we know any more. Either that or Christianity won't make internally consistent sense.

The thing Greco-Roman gods are theologically defined differently. Greco-Roman gods are powerful beings but still are still beings & thus are finite. Abrahamic God, traditionally, is defined as exists itself, "I am Who am," if you prefer. And not a "finite being in the universe" as the infinite...

But I see a few problems with this. I haven't read the book, so just going by your explanation. --First off, Judas was paid before the Last Supper, so he was already planning on betraying Him before Jesus said anything. If anything Jesus's comment would probably have been a warning, "I know...

I'd imagine everyone would be quiet desperate by that point, so might work.

I'll have to do some more thinking to come up with a good answer, but off the top of my head, 3 possibilities. -- All adult claimants die before the end of the war. Leaving only a young child. The regent (while traditionally the queen-mother, but doesn't have to be) takes over. Once the king...

Now that you mentioned it, I vaguely remember hearing this somewhere, though I don't remember where. There were plenty of Mediaeval exoteric text etc., but they have no direct "academically consistent" connection to the modern groups. They started to appear later; some do claim older lineages...

First off we have to define a few things. Our modern concept of Satanism, both ironic & un-ironic, didn't exist in the Middle Ages, nor did any modern occultist groups. At best, these groups can academically date themselves to at most the 1700s & that isn't going to be very many of them. And the...

Or it could force the confrontation to to happen earlier just with the French Canadians & not the Irish. It's not like the 13 colonies weren't already into anti-Catholicism. The only Catholic to sign the declaration had was schooled in France as even Maryland was not that friendly to Catholics.

Depends on how much & when. If the Lower Canada gets added to the original 13, you bet a potential state full of French speaking "papists" is going to effect things.

What scares me about it, is that the response to the inoculation is usually making the definition of person relative.

The potential for changing what the ATL USA would look like it also much greater with any significant portion of OTL Canada.

I completely agree. However, by that same token, it is unfair to call France in this age an absolute monarchy.

If people always act rationally & in their best interests. But that's not always the case. In fact, Louis XV did make a huge gesture to the common people. The restoration of the parlements were supposed to be for the common people. The fact that it didn't actually do what was intended is a...