Recent content by Demothenes

That would also make sense because it’s inward rather than outward facing like London, although I remain skeptical of any real Socialist success timelines in either the US or Britain

Well I followed until this point. I've always resisted at least to some degree the same classification of Rome and the Mongolian Empire, as the Mongolian Empire was really never centralized to any degree. Thus I think its more productive to compare the constituent parts to the Romans. Even ones...

I don’t know about this, my asian friends are often very Christian At any rate, preventing immigration in general from about 1790 on, would still have a US of a comparable population size. However, maybe if you had a similar opinion change as in New England happen everywhere. It went from being...

I mean, the fact of the matter is that if the Mongols are Ancient then the Tercio could be considered ancient, and I'd be hesitant to say that. I think it could be useful to cap Ancient maybe at Charlemagne. Although that's Eurocentric, I think that includes Empires such as the Tang and allows...

I remember memorizing the first lines of Canterbury tales for BritLit. Good times, “Wan that aprile with its showers soote, the draught of march has perced to the roote, and bathed every vein in swich liquor of which engendered is the floor.” The best part was the way that every e was pronounced

To be frank, I do agree with you. The hordes were enormously skilled and were almost unstoppable on the steppes. However, I’d imagine that the Legions would force them to attack in a way they weren’t accustomed to, fortifications, caltrops, something to force them away from their advantages as...

I personally like Lafayette, maybe Kansas too, for the more southerly state although I know you didn't want to use OTL names. There's also the possibility of Cheyenne, Peoria, Sauk, Shawnee or Osage if we're going for Indian names. Personally however, I do like the idea of Lafayette.

I’m assuming that’s a joke...

Perhaps Nantucket, or Martha’s Vineyard?

Sorry about that, exam season and all that. Good luck Brawler

These might work http://www.angelfire.com/mb2/battle_hastings_1066/share/skraelings.jpg https://i0.wp.com/militaryhistorynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/440px-skraelings.jpg?resize=560%2C334&ssl=1

Well, I do think the idea is interesting but it's important to realize the position of New England in this early Colonial period. The Plymouth Colony was established about six years before the establishment of New Amsterdam, which makes it impossible to Butterfly. While Boston was established...

Buddy Holly is probably up there as he arguably had not yet actually hit his peak. It’s been suggested that he was in an intense period of musical growth at the time of his death which could have conceivably created a strong enough American Rock n’ Roll to turn away the Beatles

I've often thought that an interesting TL would be a surviving Venetian state in North Italy, as it probably would not have been as susceptible to Italian Nationalism as the rest of Italy. Moving back to the prompt however, I'd think that an interesting way to do this would be through the de...

Venetian wasn’t even a dialect but an entirely seperate language. Morphologically speaking I’ve read it actully has more in common with Istrian and Dalmatian dialects. Really, the Veneto would probably be regarded as an entirely seperate nation from the rest of Italy if it hadn’t been for their...