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The Principality of Theodoro The Principality was formed after the Fourth Crusade out of parts of the Byzantine crimean lands. Its population was a mixture of Greeks, Crimean Goths, Alans, Bulgars, Kypchaks and other nations, which confessed Orthodox Christianity. The principality's official...

Thanks, a lot! I only did it because it was a cool idea, otherwise I would never have worker up the enthusiasm to do it. Actually, would it make an interesting premise for a TL?

Sorry, I've uploaded a bigger version. This is rather hasty logic, but I should make sense: The Iberians mainly lived along the Mediterranean, they were first displaced by the flood, and then by colonizing Carthaginians. This pushed them up against the Celtiberians further inland. As such...

An ASB map I drew up As Alexander the Great dies, ASBs transform the earth. Earth warms several degrees, and the ice caps melt. Together with thermal expansion of the oceans, sea levels increase just over 100m, over a relatively short period of time. This map takes place 100 years later...

Wonderful little TL here. Very much to my liking. I like in particular comparing this TL's French Revolution with the one I got taught in school, by my quite republican teachers. And regarding Lisieux, Thande's prononciation guide is right, but I feel it doesn't quite do french justice, I know...

As I understand it, proto-feudalism started with the Roman Empire's crisis during the third century. A combination of weak Emperors with several rivals, plague and an increase in peripheral tribes raiding deep into roman lands, lead to a break down in the roman trade system. Merchants were less...

I'm looking into doing a TL, where the western schism becomes a permanent fixture in Europe, with countries backing either Avignon or Rome. What would the effects of this be? Will there be crusades called against the other faction? Will Protestantism arise, or is there a possibility of...

Brilliant! I'm guessing the army will join up with the militia in London then, and all hell has already been let loose. However, noting the agitators theories on who should rule, I'm forecasting the rise of a Napoleon figure from this "revolution". Lovely, England's going all french!;)

Can we possible envision an invasion by a steppe tribe on a Ghengis Khan scale before the original? For example a Go-turk invasion in the 6th or 7th century? Other tribe? What would it take, what would the consequences be? Obviously is all contextual so lets look at some moments when an...

Just bouncing around ideas here. What if, like the bubonic plague which affected the eastern roman empire of Justinian, the plague hit instead in 125 AD when the roman empire was still a powerful entity? Obviously the empire would be weakened, but to what point? Will it allow earlier "barbarian...

Part 6 : The Empires of the West Following Philippe Bourbon's ascension to the French throne, most historians consider the Spanish and French colonial empires as one. However they were effectively ruled separately until 1719, when the French and Spanish empires were placed under the control...

I am aware that James is in an untainable possition, that is why what is going to happen is going to happen. But bluffing can go a long way, and France can always slip the odd ship through with money or a few soldiers. The RN isn't impenatrable. But yes, James is in something of a dreamworld...

Part 5: Blowing Bubbles The economic situation in the Europe was rather dire from 1715 onwards, with crippling debt hindering recovery. Almost all Northern European states had taken part in crippling wars, dramatically draining resources, reducing capital, limiting commerce and therefore...

I'm definately looking to transform the catholic church in this TL. Expect gallicianism to pop up in it's various national forms all over. And Hapsburgs arn't going to be very pleased with the Pope, that's for sure. Oh and I fixed the map. Appearances can be deceptive....or not. He may have...

And for those of you interested by cartographic representation, voilà! Europa 1721 after the Treaty of Verona!