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Eu de asemenea, (Romanian for me also, i'm trying to learn the language) :)

Already i feel sorry for what is coming, while the history fan in me is fascinated by possible alternatives, the realist can only wonder at how it was to be one of the women or children to be left in such a hopeless, horrible nightmare.

15 years old, should be building model Spitfires by now. Ah kids today, they don't know what fun is.

Wasn't the reason that Colombus's voyages of discovery got financed was because the constant warfare, infighting & backstabbing in the Eastern Med & the Middle East made the spice trade with India unreliable. Likewise the other Western European voyagers who set off West. So if the trade routes...

I'm happy with lots of murder, it's always good to be reminded just how bloody & cruel these things generally were.

Reference casualties, this brings me back to my question about penicillin. It's not just the wounded but also the minor, & not so minor, work related injuries, scratches, scrapes & crushes that would occur in less than hygienic circumstances & the resulting infections. With penicillin, the Brits...

Not really , my knowledge ain't deep enough, probably be best to try to replace one the early mad emperors, Nero for example, with somebody sane.

Now instead of an Irishman, an Englishman,a Welshman and a Scotsman comedy maybe here there could be a Gael, a Briton, a Norman & a Saxon in an Alehouse…

A good POD would perhaps be someone who has lived extensively in different parts of the empire & had an extensive education (military-aristocracy family ?), who for some reason loves life in the countryside (none of the cut throat scheming of the big cities) & becomes deeply interested in...

No point really, just saying it's something to be considered, revolting peasants aren't working on the land. From what i read somewhere the revolts were so extensive that the Romans didn't have the manpower to deal with them & sometimes would import mercenaries to deal with them, for example...

In the later Roman Empire, bagaudae (also spelled bacaudae) were groups of peasant insurgents who arose during the Crisis of the Third Century, and persisted until the very end of the western Empire, particularly in the less-Romanised areas of Gallia and Hispania, where they were "exposed to the...

The sexual sadism part was of explaining about the circuses, nothing to do with tech. progress, it may be true or Christian propaganda or somewhere between the two. At certain periods fast amounts of capital were spent on the games by emperors & politicaly active individuals for little economic...

In any case, from a head start both in agriculture and technology in general, the Roman state stopped developing new technology from the good base that it had, why is a question that has many theories as answer, sometimes the conversation to state Christianity is blamed, i tend to agree but very...

http://www.roman-empire.net/society/soc-games.html This omits some of the more gorey details of the later games & the often sexual sadism involved, a quick search on Google or Bing will turn up some interesting results. The late empire did indeed abolish slavery, but what were all the freed...

From what i understand, in the middle Roman Republic/Empire period, slaves were so cheap & Egypt/Tunisia produced so much surpluses that there was no need to innovate, plus the riches involved in the circus's & games pulled in the resources & best minds that otherwise would have gone to...

Oh & lots of social changes that i'm too much of an amateur historian to start on, suffice to say that even a serf who knew where he stood in the world order would take more care of the land than a slave who worked a large plantation type farm owned by a rich aristocrat. Even in late Western...

Better ploughs & the invention of the horse collar enabled farming of heavier, but more fertile, soils in Northern/Central Europe. The adaption of the 3 field rotation system allowing different crops to be grown on the same field on alternate years with a fallow-grazing year allowing soil...

Speak for yourself :-)

A Scottish Cumbria would make the following 500 or so years of Anglo-Scottish strife much more interesting. Just a suggestion.

I was reading something recently about the most important pagan Arab deity being a triumvirate of goddess's similar to the Celtic Morrigan… the maiden, the mother & the crone.