Recent content by Cregan

This one of the most interesting impacts of no gunpowder - the rise of the three great Asiatic Islamic Gunpowder Empires (Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals) is altered, or even outright averted, and horse-archer based steppe nomadic armies will continue to dominate the vast Eurasian Steppe and...

1. Limit the territorial extent of the Caliphate, probably keeping it confined to the same territory as the Achaemenid Persian Empire (Persia, Afghanistan, Transoxiana, Mesopotamia, Syria and the Levant, Egypt, Anatolia, Thrace and the Caucasus) + Arabia, the Horn of Africa and a bit of the...

The Antigonids are dead and gone ITTL, it is the Seleucids who rule Macedonia, Thrace and Epirus now.

Why has Dionysus been adopted as a war god instead of the preexisting war god Ares? Greek mythology is not my strong suit, so any explanation would be appreciated. I know the Seleucids would probably not want to adopt the war goddess Athena given her close association with Athens, but Dionysus...

Conquering the Ptolemaic Kingdom should be a priority, it will allow the Seleucids to eliminate their most dangerous rival, unify the entire Hellenistic world and recreate the empire of Alexander. Also, the Seleucid borders in India and Central Asia appear to be stable, so there is no reason to...

Good update. Thrace and Bithynia should be shockingly easy for Alexander Hierax to overrun and annex now, giving him control over the entire northern periphery of mainland Greece. It would be cool to see him raise the Epirote banner over Byzantium.

We know the Parthians arose later, but I’m still quite concerned about the Seleucid Empire’s steppe frontier at this time, especially with all this internal instability and Ptolemaic tensions. Is there a rising nomadic threat against the Seleucids at this time, or is Central Asia quiet?

Does the Seleucid Empire control all of Anatolia now?

It doesn't have to be particularly brutal, just more evangelical than the laissez-faire approach of the OTL Turco-Persian rulers of India, who did not encourage mass conversions to Islam IOTL. ITTL, I think greater evangelism on the part of these Christian Turco-Mongols rulers coupled with their...

I think this scenario I posted elsewhere would do it: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-christian-majority-indian-subcontinent.530267/#post-23291307 Islam does not exist. The Arab expansion across the Near East still occurs due to population and resource pressures in the...

Can the Ottomans hold onto Libya, Tunisia and Algeria?

This raises another interesting point - is Ottoman control over the Levant much firmer than IOTL? The bolded bit from the latest update makes me think Constantinople needs to really exert even firmer control and apply reforms in the region.

Diriyah was a prosperous town and the Nejd had enough resources to enable the Saudis to build up enough of a powerbase to go on their rampage across the Middle East. That seems like enough to bring in tax revenues, which would also seem like enough of an incentive - not to mention the proximate...

Great update. However, what does it mean about the Nejd falling into chaos after Ibrahim Pasha's victory over the Saudis and destruction of Diriyah? Does that mean the Ottomans have let the region degenerate into an unproductive wasteland riven by violence, banditry and tribal infighting? That...