Though the Ptolemies canal wasn't in the Suez. It connected the Nile to the Red sea, didn't it?
EDIT: Aha, the Canal of the Pharoahs.
It eventually fell apart due to silt and lack of upkeep I'm pretty sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_of_the_Pharaohs
I'm pretty sure that Wladyslaw II of Opole will be an ally of Charles/Karol for any troubles in Poland. He was loyal to Louis, and it'd be in his benefit to be of service to Charles as well.
However, despite his extensive service to Louis, Wladislaw or any of the other Silesian dukes that I...
Reading about Alexandra of Lithuania has made me more aware of Siemowit IV of Masovia, and the problem he'll likely pose to Charles II/Karol I.
I was already pretty sure that Charles/Karol's reign, at least initially, would not be smooth in Poland, and that he would very well potentially face...
Thanks for both the interest and the offer of assistance.
Do you have any areas of knowledge in this period, or just of a region like Croatia or Italy?
Even if you don't, I value any input and once this gets going, I might ask one or two people to beta read the timeline. We'll see...
Also, I have a question I hope people can help me answer.
That question of course is who Charles II/Karol I will marry?
Now that Louis has son, he is going to need to find a bride. His first priority is getting his son a bride, and probably preferably an heiress, but a high up bride...
Yah, I'm not sure about a civil war between Sigismund and Elizabeth over the regency. As you pointed out, the rewards are not perhaps worth the risk, and ALT Charles II is already 12/13.
The boy even has the example of his Grandfather Charles I (and his namesake to boot) who began waging...
Thank you.
Louis I waged a number of ultimately successful wars against Venice OTL, and it'll definitely be up to his son to keep them in line.
If the Durazzo Anjou's go extinct then Louis' heirs will have a strong claim to Naples, and that could really turn the Adriatic into a Hungarian...
A common enemy would hold them together, but it is hard to find one, at least initially.
The House of Luxembourg, at least initially, is hard to count as an enemy. They'd been allies of the Angevin's since the early reign of Louis' father Charles.
This old alliance actually probably makes it...
I would also add the whole age of exploration for Europe.
As European merchants went further and further in their search for Oriental goods, they took on greater and greater risk. As far as I know, the Europeans were the ones who went the furthest in their search for wealth. Of course that...
Hmmm, an excellent point. I'd been rather unclear of Casimir's intentions approaching his death. Depending on what I read, some seemed to imply that Casimir didn't like his other heirs, while others did point out the adoption of Casimir IV of Pomerania.
I was actually under the impression...
I'm not sure yet. I have some ideas on where I'd like to take this, but I'm not set on anything. At least to the 1700's, but maybe farther depending on the pace I take it.
As for when the actual timeline will start, once I sort some things out. I still need to grab one or two books before...
There would probably be two regencies in each kingdom. Elizabeth of Bosnia would play a large part in one of them, though I'm not sure if she'd prefer the one where her son resided or if it would be better for her to reside in the country her son is not staying in. She'd probably stay with her...
This is an area I'm unsure in. I view the Christianization of Lithuania as inevitable, as did Jogaila. Jogaila's primary enemy was the Teutonic knights, who were also really disliked by the Poles. Thus the two groups share a common enemy.
I don't think it implausible that the Polish nobility...
Here is my old essay.
In the years 895-896 the Magyars, led by their leader Arpad, invaded central Europe destroying the old Eastern European power structures of the day. The Bulgarian Empire was driven below the Danube, and Great Moravia collapsed soon after. This event set the stage for...
Very true, and likely to happen at some point. The POD will only give Louis one son, and for the sake of the timeline, he'll get one son as well. But the Kingdom will likely split at least once.
I'll post my old essay, to give some ideas of the circumstances surrounding the OTL unions and...
Now here are some parts I have decided upon.
The POD is somewhere in 1368/1369, and it results in Elizabeth and Louis I of Hungary's first child (Catherine who died at age 7) being born a boy. This boy's name is Charles, after Louis's father. His two sisters, Catherine (OTL's Mary) and Mary...
Hey everyone, I've been a member of this board for years, and I've never really written a timeline (I did once for a timeline contest a couple years back, but it was not really all that well thought out). Recently, I have felt inspired enough to try my hand at a new timeline.
It was in fact...
How did the Polynesians miss out on a landmass half the size of a small continent?
Seriously, they found Hawaii and the Easter Islands, among so many others. They were master mariners.
EDIT: Gorgeous map by the way. Excellent effort.