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lol why you stalking my old timeline bro

Nice.

A partial reason for delayed independence was that the Cuban landowning elite had fears if they became an independent nation, they would not have the numbers to provide counter-resistance to a potential slave uprising. Spain's presence on the island was essential for the preservation of slavery...

May God be on the Roman Empire's side!

Why would the Greeks colonize Somalia when they're much closer to an obvious colonization target: Cyrenaica?

Spamming whites into Africa will make it more prosperous and by such logic, requires even a more intense form of European colonization.

With family like Adela, who needs enemies?

Communonationalism is better than liberalism that uses identity politics to ignore bread and butter issues though.

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I'm sure no one will see this post. No one.

To put it frankly (heh), you would need a perfect storm of depopulation, disease, dispossession of land from the Gallo-Roman aristocracy, long enough resistance to Christianity's advances and other such factors to give the Franks a small chance at Germanizing Roman Gaul.

Al-Nafar?

Yes!

What's the likelihood that Modu Chanyu of the nomadic Xiongnu Empire conquers and unifies the Chinese states under his authority, in lieu of the Qin uniting China?

Which is where I'm kinda going: just figuring out if an oligarchic Egyptian republic is within the realm of possibility and what effects it would have for religion: ie ancient Egyptian religion had a monarchial bent to it and without the pharaoh, it'd be different.

There were already names for the area that would makeup OTL Portugal: you can use Al-Gharb ("The West"), al-Tagr al-Adna ("Lower March") or something based off the Arabic transliteration of Lisbon, al-Lishbunah. As far as I know, nothing referring to the Suebi was used for that part of Al-Andalus.

In theory they were based on the assemblies of Athens but in practice they were represented by the nobles.

They would have no leverage then in elections and most of them, if they were hypothetically passionate about this one issue, would convince themselves to vote for the other party. The alternative of them not voting is that the Republicans are free to intensify the War on Drugs without any checks.

In my readings of Ptolemaic Egypt, I'm sensing there was this weird, undefined relationship between the king and the de jure Greek cities in Egypt: Alexandria, Naucratis and Ptolemais. Egypt was considered the property of the pharaoh, administered by royal bureaucrats and yet the cities seemed...