Recent content by danmac

I can't believe that I missed the last couple of updates. The Lebanon update was interesting. With Chehab's death the Lebanese civil war will spiral out of control very quickly. I wonder though which groups will Jadid's Syria will support. In OTL initially they opposed the PLO and other left...

Great Timeline Lord Protector. The current civil war in England seems interesting. It looks Harold will brutally get revenge on the Morcar and Eadwine for killing his brother. BTW how are the Welsh and the Scottish reacting to the war in England? Is anyone there thinking of taking advantage.

Compared to horses which would be a superior form of cavalry. While I imagine yaks would be larger and stronger they would also likely be a lot slower then horses would be.

The most likely place for it to fail would be at Antioch since I feel at that point the Crusader Army was weakest and most vulnerable so any decisive defeat there would be most devastating for them. Could this mean that we might see a surviving Muslim state in Iberia. If the reconquista is...

Any idea as to how many cultures we should develop initially for the North Eastern continent? My initial guess would be one or two urban cultures with 2 or 3 non urban cultures initially. I also feel that we should probably not include Neanderthals as well. There is a lot we don't know about...

Anybody interested?

What if the First Crusade failed, let's say that the crusaders fail to take Antioch and are crushed by Kerbogha's army. Would this kill the crusading spirit outright or would more crusaders arrive and try again. What sort of effect would this have on the Kommenian Restoration and on Fatimid Egypt?

I can see the French establishing a more long lasting foothold in Egypt. However I feel that any attempt by Napoleon to establish control over Egypt would first require the defeat of the British navy. No matter how successful Napoleon's forces are on land if French controlled Egypt can't be...

Goodbye Melisende you will truly be missed. I am sure she will be inspired to know though that her efforts likely healed much of the sickness of East Africa and that her daughter Sabine has taken up her fight.

One sad thing about a more optimistic timeline is that it makes the tragedies stand out that much more. Still though I am glad to see that East Africa might know some peace now, it especially seems like the post war settlement seems somewhat sustainable in the long run. Obviously there are...

Great update, the part on the Netanyahu family was tragic, as any story of a family tearing itself apart would be. But I wonder though, if Bibi goes into politics like IOTL, will he still be a right-wing Likudnik. The mention of his fights with his father make me wonder if he goes to the left...

I highly support both continuing this timeline and putting the rest of it in an e-book.

I will begin the rolls for the next few centuries this weekend. I think I might do four centuries instead of the typical three so that we won't have to introduce the Northern cultures in the middle of a turn. This will likely depend on whether it seems like the first three sets of rolls are too...

Without further ado I present the write-ups for the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. I would like to thank Daeres, Cochlea, Viperhawkz, Aabcehmu, and Codae for all their hard work for this update. 12,300-12,600 TY 14th-16th centuries after the founding of cities Western Plains The Mdzegu...

He likely would have been subject to a vote of no confidence by the Majils and replaced by Mossadegh. Most Iranians hated the fact that he couldn't secure control of Iran's oil assets from the AIOC and unless he could convince the British to allow Iran a 50% share of the company, similar to...