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Would it be possible for the Roman Empire to "survive" as the holdings of a figurehead emperor in Rome/Milan/Ravenna/Constantinople, while various warlords fight for imperial backing, hegemony of the Mediterranean, and title of magister militum? Basically, the shogunate reoccurring as a Roman...

Could the Knights Templar have conquered territory and formed a state-like entity, like the Teutonic Knights did? If so, what region would be most likely? Perhaps if they tried to conquer part of Anatolia to secure the overland route to Jerusalem?

Good point. And the Republic of Venice and the city of London did so too (temporarily), around the same time. Clearly this calls for a timeline about the Nri Kingdom-Venice-England-Iceland-Toltec-Chichen Itza-Mayapan-Chimor cold war in the New World.

Iceland abolished slavery from 1117-1490, so it's possible.

Old World pagans who have knowledge of inoculation, a republican or thalassocratic system of governance, and have already abolished slavery.

If Japan never invaded the Dutch East Indies, what would have happened to the colony in the 50s and 60s?

What do "TLIAD" and "TLIAW" mean?

Would the Roman Republic/later Empire be more or less Hellenized than OTL? And could they actually adopt some Egyptian aspects to their culture?

With the increased wealth from Egypt brought into the Roman fold so early, how would this change the evolution of the Roman Republic?

Basically people ISOT one nation at a time and proceed with what happens after the appearance of each nation, until the world is full of nations from throughout history and new empires that form from the terra incognita.

Plausibility check for an alternate scenario in Shared Worlds. It has multiple POD's and diverges greatly, but I'll give a synopsis here. TL;DR: Japan conquers China, Korea, Manchuria, Indochina, and much of Indonesia by the end of 1945, while securing several years of peace with the British...

With all the interest in ISOT maps recently, anyone interested in a collaborative one in the Shared Worlds/Map Games forum?

The British had an interest in preserving the colonial-style plantation economies in Latin America, so they have to be kept out of Latin America somehow, as does the US from the 1890s on.

That's nearly what happened in both Armenia and Turkey, whose populations 5-6 fold from 1920 to now. Without the Armenian genocide or later Soviet oppression, there could be more than 10 million Armenians.

For everything to be annexed or a direct puppet state is impossible. There is no reason to annex Haiti or Bolivia, for example. For Britain to dominate the entire world economically and politically, however, is very feasible with British victory in the ARW, and almost happened in reality.

Actually much of the lower classes in the east would have spoken Aramaean, Armenian, or Coptic. Greek was largely only natively spoken in Greece and Anatolia, and was an elite-sponsored lingua franca elsewhere, like Latin. Greek was, before the Roman Empire and after the fall of the west, the...

The Greek language was always the preferred language of administration in the East, even during the Roman Republic.

If Zabda and Zenobia defeated Aurelian in 271 or 272, capturing or killing that Emperor, who would the Roman Senate have chosen as the next emperor? Tacitus?

Only in the sense that they occupied the same territory. Orthodox Christians and Greeks were called "Romans" by the Ottomans, and these Romans were second-class millets. Meanwhile, Mehmed II's claim of being Kaysar-i-Rum was only nominal and essentially ignored by later sultans, who had bigger...

What if during one of the many civil wars of the Byzantine Empire, an usurper converted to Islam, allied with the Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid Caliphate for military support, and used those expeditionary troops to take the imperial throne? (Maybe an alternate Thomas the Slav could be such an usurper).