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Maybe industrialization does not equal steam power, but it certainly equals easily available sources of energy. And while water and wind power are a good start, especially if you make water power as efficient as possible by using aqueducts and dams to guarantee a steady amount of water and make...

I'm still interested in your sources for a lot of your statements. Do you have a good book recommendation for me?

Yes he did so in 1813, after a constitutional amendment of February 5, 1813 which allowed him to appoint a female regent.

I would count as beneficial: - the tax reform, essentially resulting in a fairer and more efficient taxation of all free inhabitants of the empire, whithout increasing the tax burden; - the army reforms, which under Constantine resulted in the creation of the comitatus and the limitanei, might...

I don't know what your scenario is, but she has no legal claim at all. Even Napoléon couldn't make her regent, since by law, women were disqualified from the regency.

In the army, he then gets a dishonorable discharge for "sodomy" and achieves nothing of interest in his life.

No, Malet is only a sympton. As I wrote in another thread: No Joséphine would not have exerted the regency. She isn't entitled to it by law, and she hasn't the political ressources to put herself on the driving seat.

So Napoléon III's eldest brother Napoléon Charles Bonaparte? While it's true that Napoléon thought of adopting him and making him his heir, he never followed up. Anyway, the person in question is dead by 1809. He died on May 4, 1807. No, he didn't. Thierry Lentz explicitly says in Le Premier...

I think calling the Tetrarchy "Diocletian's reforms" is a bit exaggerated. I don't think Diocletian had a preconceived plan to reform the Empire. The way the Tetrarchy was instituted (step by step) smells like an ad-hoc solution to certain problems (like Carausius' revolt in Britain, the reason...

OOC: There are some mind-boggling details about your scenario that I would like to address. a) I don't know why Britain would agree to peace negations in 1810. If Napoléon died in 1809, shortly before the Peace of Schönbrunn, I could see Austria repudiating the harsh conditions of the treaty...

Well, the people's assemblies certainly were a democratic element. But overall the constition was oligarchic.

Athens certainly was a democracy, Rome wasn't. Both had a very strong religious component, though.

Thyssen.

No, I was speaking of a situation in which Otto III marries a Byzantine princess, giving him and his children a claim.

Well, if Otto III had lived longer and married a Byzantine princess like his father did, there would have been a slim possibility that he inherited the Byzantine Empire, or at least that he claimed the Byzantine throne. I could even imagine him enforcing this claim, given that he was a German...

Also known as the bowling alley.

The sad thing is that there are actually people believing such bullshit. What I find interesting how much the same people (tankies) hate Trotsky. If you carefully analyze the development of the Soviet Union in the 20s and 30s, Stalin first exiled Trotsky and then followed his suggestions...

Away for some research. :D

Maybe, but the Persians had quite a record of prefering tyrants over democracies or oligarchies. It certainly was something systematic, maybe inherent to Persian social structure.

I don't know where you did get this information, but it's quite wrong. Sieyès was the man behind the coup - he was member of the Directorate and sought to overthrow the Councils to be able to remodel the French constitution. He wanted to stabilize the system and place himself at the top. He was...