Recent content by Eivind

I am not sure what would be the best POD, so maybe you could suggest it in your reply. The Tanakh (which Christians call the Old Testament) was yet not fully written, so I refer to the religion as Proto-Judaism at this point. The religion was influenced by the Babylonian captivity. The story...

Probably they would not try to conquer Anatolia, but go for the Caliphate/Islamic countries instead.

I don´t find information about the date when Poppea died, only that she died in 65 AD, the same year that the Pisonian conspiracy took place. I believe I read elsewhere that Poppaea wanted to see Seneca dead. Was she still alive when Seneca was forced to commit suicide and did she play a role in...

Both a and b. More Czechoslovakians are killed, but overall, the losses of lives are far smaller. You can only begin by mentioning that there would be no Holocaust. There would also be far fewer dead in other countries.

The founder of the Seljuk dynasty was born several centuries after the POD, so in a no islam time line, there would also be no Seljuks.

No islam means no Charles Martel, as he was born long after the POD. In this scenario, the interesting question is what happens with the (East) Roman Empire (which prior to the Muslim conquests had reconquered much of the west). One problem for the empire would be religious divisions between...

A lot of people have ancestors from Arabia. The question then would be how large percentage of your ancestry would have to be from Arabia to count as an Arab. My impression is that people consider themselves Arab if they speak Arab and self-identify as Arab. Probably Muslims outside Arabia...

Strange question. As if there is any doubt.

What is an Arab, really? Someone from Arabia? Someone who identifies as an Arab? Someone who speaks Arab as their mother tongue?

Wouldn´t Libya become "Italy´s Algeria"?

Indeed. Nationalism won out over ideology in communist countries like the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Cambodia, so no reason why the two should become best friends just because they were republics. Besides, if you want revolution at the same time, the POD would have to bea earlier, although...

2004? EU-membership has not been on the agenda after 1994.

Not really sure about Armenia. I have always considered them as a kind of Eastern Europeans, although, obviously they are geographically part of Asia.

Well, Russia must at least have thought it was possible to come out better by joining the war than by remaining outside. Otherwise, it is difficult to see why they joined.

Why would Russia have any interest in doing so? Russia had no interest in a united Germany?