Recent content by Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

  1. Rdformed Germanic paganism

    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.
  2. How much power can the Pope gain?

    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.
  3. How much power can the Pope gain?

    The contentious title is no konger prezent though...
  4. How much power can the Pope gain?

    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...
  5. Rdformed Germanic paganism

    How might Germanic paganism look like if It reformed itself as an Axial Age religion?
  6. How much power can the Pope gain?

    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...
  7. AHC/WI: More sinicized countries

    What if Temujin (Genghis Khan) is born in the aforementioned Kara Khitan tribe and not as a Mongoł?
  8. How much power can the Pope gain?

    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.
  9. How much power can the Pope gain?

    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...
  10. WI: Ahmed Ibn Hanbal becomes a rationalist

    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
  11. AHC: China-like india

    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.
  12. WI: COVID 19 as deadly as Black Death

    Ok. Własny awarie of this
  13. WI: COVID 19 as deadly as Black Death

    What happens f the current epidemic was as lethal as the Black Death?
  14. AHC: a Gallo Italic Itsly

    With a PoD after 1000 AD make a Gallo Italic language the official language in Italy instead of It being Tuscan
  15. WI; Martin Luther King not killed

    What if he wasn't murdered? Assume as of 2020 he is still alive. Would African Americans be better off/
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