I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re left in place but Italy pays some other kind of reparation instead for it. Maybe some Greek statues from southern Italy get sent over instead?
Superficially, it sounds like the shift to Buddhism coincided with and may have been partially caused by ruler instability that was in turn caused by the failure of Khmer-Cham war under Suryavarman II. The Cham became a major thorn in the side of the kingdom, raiding and burning down cities and...
For what it’s worth, my suspicion is that he would have backed the junta. He was a Virginian “nationalist” at heart judging by the decisions he made IOTL and definitely a firm racist; Breckinridge from that perspective was “selling out the cause” of slavery and Virginia stronk near the end, and...
No, but given Justinian’s logistics versus the newly established powers in formerly Roman lands like the Gothic nations, I’d argue that his conquests were too big to work the way he wanted in the specific time period.
Justinian, baby, what is you doin
EDIT: Napoleon too, if you count the vassal stuff like Spain. Not counting Russia because Nappy never actually annexed territory there
Stalin was a spiteful and prideful bastard, he might reluctantly agree to this but he would much rather fully bring Poland to heel to make up for 1920 and much of the USSR would agree. Even if neutral Poland happens for now, it might get reneged on later as part of Cold War developments...
The gradual transition out of Roman governance and culture during Late Antiquity and the Migration Era
strikes me as a field with vast potential for alternate history, and I know a bunch of excellent TLs on here have already explored the concept. My question today is specifically around...
Sorry about speculating about imperialism after Red had already decried the idea! If the goal is to have a US with better and less exploitative relationships with Latin America, it might help to weaken anti-Catholic sentiments in the US; if an alt-KKK still hates Catholics and gets dunked on...
No way IMO, Russia wants that warm water Baltic port under direct control, there’s no reason to not stick ethnic Russians in there to ensure its loyalty just as IOTL. You’d have to butterfly away the Russification policies of the USSR to avoid this.
Essentially impossible so long as the voting system is still FPTP. The best possible scenario under that system would be for very minor parties to manage to persist longer than a single cycle, and even then they wouldn’t accomplish much.
Hm, a TL focusing on the European colonial sphere in the 1650s, including the Caribbean…
As an old Byzaboo, I have to ask if Ferdinand Paleologus might show up, or at least if butterflies might allow him to continue his line. One of his kids could move to Saint Helena and become a landholder if...
I agree that I don’t think France is likely willing to square up against a Russo-German alliance; if Austria’s part of it too that only makes it worse.
What does seem plausible as a divergence is a German-British alliance, since the countries were originally fairly cordial at this point IOTL...
I think this makes the most sense to me as a likely outcome. Yes, the Israelis will be stronger, but so will “Greater Syria,” and like I said before Abdullah has an obligation to try and protect Levantine Arabs so he cannot stay out of the war if Egypt gets involved. As a side note, I doubt the...
If it had happened a few centuries earlier, there would have been a cult arising around a Greek god taking the form of a whale and threatening Byzantion every so often.