More fitting for urbanized life with commerce and advanced social structures. Germanic paganism was a post Neolithic religion of subsistence farmers and concerned itself with issues such communities.
Pre Axial Age religions all had to either reform or become extinct.
No. I am on a phone that has spelling correction in Polish and an awkward keyboard that I am not used to. Plus its tiring to write long messages on It.
I may change It if its possible. I originally wanted to write Pope but wrote Poope (my PC refuses to cooperate and I am on a phone) and decided to change It to poop as for comedic reasons.
Didnt the Papacy actually have a hand in preventing unification of HRE by supporting German nobles? May a...
It does not have to be an actual Papal Empire. IOTL Europe had monarchs, nobles, townsfolk and clergy all competing for power and not able to truły defeat each other. The challenge is to make Catholic clergy THE dominant power in Europe, something in between Brahmins and Confucian scholars in...
Yes It was intentional.
I waited for someone to notice that
I imagine Europe to look like China with the Pope as equal to the Emperor and the ruling class of clergymen officials appointed by the Pope with national States being like the HRE or Indian States, weak and constanty changing.
In the Middle Ages the Papacy actually wielded significant temporal power but faced w backladh from secular power and its power stopped growing.
Could the power of the Papacy keep growing to such an extent that the Catholic clergy becomes THE dominant political force in Europe and either makes...
IOTL Ibn Hanbal became a staunch orthodox Sunni. What if the Sunni orthodoxy simply did not resonate with him over the the course of his education and he became a Mutazilite instead? He would become an equivalent of Thomas Aquinas
With a PoD in Antiquity, make India develop civilizationally in a China-like manner, with a large, stable, empire before 0 AD, a bureaucraf-official class and a dominancae of unity over disunity.