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898 CE: Gunnbjorn Ulfsson and crew sight coast of Hrossvaland (Greenland) after their longship is blown west of Iceland. They do not land. 978 CE: Snaebjorn Galti completes first colonization effort of Hrossvaland, giving the island its name due to the abundance of “horses of the sea” or...

Just yet another person taking a poke at a more permanent settlement of the Norse in North America. As in OTL the Greenland colonies were by dint of geography and climate abandoned as being fairly terrible places to settle given the lack of biodiversity and resources that worsened during the...

Indeed, that’s why I would believe a situation such as in Germania and Armenia would occur with Latinized Britons adopting aspects of the Roman culture. Probably focused on the main tribes that trade with the Romans. Leading to a certain amount of side eyeing by those tribes further away from...

Hah! I need a map where England is in place of Normandy.

Caesar did it when he invaded the second time.

The Romans did enforce tribes to become clients with them or at least accept peace terms that favored them on tribes across the Rhine without directly ruling them.

I mean in terms of the future. Right around the POD that is the case but as we have seen the development will eventually lead to the small tribes banding together and merging and eventually becoming larger entities. Perhaps the outside pressure of the Romans even leads to an earlier unified...

One could see a sort of factionalism eventually forming between Pro-Latin and Anti-Latin tribes and groups on the islands eventually. It wouldn’t be far fetched to say the Legions would return and put a Pro-Latin King on the Throne of a large tribe or kingdom or whatever forms. This could at...

How are things in Texas? It appears to have come out of the whole war the least damaged of the Confederacy

To be fair, wasn’t the cause of that given to the more limited geography and resources of living on an island? Enslavement probable but cannibalism on the continent less likely

Well that’s why they land in…Australia. What’s better, Northeastern Australia. Plenty of trees there to keep building their ocean going. The ocean going boats of the Vikings for example brought over cattle and horses to Iceland. And the Bali and Banteng cattle was known to have been...

We know the Polynesians at least brought with them pigs, chicken and dogs as far East as Hawaii so those could definitely make the trip to Australia with little ATL intervention. And we know cattle and sheep were introduced to Australia proper well enough in OTL (cough Australian Cattle/Sheep...

Was thinking on if this could have been a plausible scenario. New Caledonia in the Melanesian islands was colonized by the Lapita culture around the 1300 BCish timeframe and after that to the East the more classical Polynesian island of Fiji was colonized around 900 BC. What if instead...

Thanks. Right now I’m trying to brainstorm ideas for the next update.

I would say they would be on equal footing more or less with Christianity and Judaism. Though it’s the one that gets State Backing that would rise above the others. There is of course precedent with the state worship of the Empire but we do also see a moving trend of the Emperors to establish a...