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Well that's true, but more people = more trade = more contact. I'm not entirely sure what the evidence shows about when and how badly western native tribes were hit as opposed to more eastern populations, but real agriculture (from the south) only began to be adopted in the NE around 1000 so I...

One problem is that a one time exposure won't generate much immunity. The Europeans had been suffering small pox outbreaks for at least a thousand years and their death rates were still 30%. If you have an outbreak, the children of survivors might be more likely to survive (how much?) but if...

Hmm, an alternate battle instead of Toulouse. Looking forward to it. BTW, did you find an concrete non-wiki information on Odo's children? It's a confusing tangle but would be a big help if you could point out any sources.

Right, I forgot to add that the north/south split occurred much earlier (1050s or so) and the north has Kanto. It's not so much that they're a powerhouse, but they're culturally different, more unified compared to the southern regime, and strong enough that military conquest of the north by the...

I thought those Northern Fujiwara were related to the Hokke in some way. Anyhow in the Raptor of Spain the north and south of Japan have been split for about a century or a bit more thanks to a more disruptive alternate Northern/Southern Courts period. Main reasons for it: Northerners have...

It's a difficult thing. England did a lot of trade with the continent so the opportunities for Contagion are legion. But for the purposes of discussion: The Black Death probably facilitated the Enclosures in England, concentrating capital. I don't know how powerful English nobility became...

Ah, but then you can have a competition in culture and organization and then can have a "Great Man" unify them. This can increase dynamism and reduce complacency so that Al-Andalus can continue innovating.

Plus the strain that runs through Protestantism that veneration of saints = idolatry. I'm not sure how prevalent that was in the early Protestantism, but I know it existed.

Ah, Aquitaine at last. Well this should be interesting. If the Emir suffers a big defeat he might have revolts he can't put down. A couple of Muslims states in the south, one more independent one more "faithful" to the Caliphs to contrast itself, might be quite interesting.

How about the Anglican relationship with Mary? It sounds like all it needs is a few tweaks, and Wiki even used the term "veneration" to describe certain strains.

Always assuming there is a Spain. Also if the Crusader states have been around for some additional centuries it's possible that the population is enough for the Crusader states to not have to be entirely pragmatic in this regard. For language I think you have to look at something like...

It did stabilize in the early 1100s I think. The problem was all the fighting and decline had damaged the great Iraqi irrigation works that were the base of their agricultural power. The Mongols were the final blow, but the agricultural production damage was extant since the civil wars of the...

I'm always fascinated how many times names of something in different languages are similar (Rabita -Arbit - Arabic) with just a few letters switched.

As near as I can tell, the environment can't support that kind of population and won't when you have the fertile crescent all around it to compete. ED: What LSCatilina said.

Do you mean moving the Arab heartlands outside Syria/Iraq/Egypt? This member may hail from an alternate timeline.

County actually.

Whatever the desires of the barbarians (and the barbarians weren't monolithic obviously) the stresses they put on the Roman state were a major factor in the dissolution of the Roman state.

Because it existed.

Rousseau, Rousseau... I don't recall if it was Bartholomew of Lucca or not. Sorry. I've read Dhouda, or rather, translated excerpts from her manual via Gies. They provided an important resource for the social aspects of the TL at the time. But how much of it is specific to raising male children...

Hmm, when was it most important historically for poems to rhyme?