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It's a great tl, well worthy of a turtledove

Large families bring there own issues in to things as well.

The annoying thing about OTL is that Italy had some lovely planes but the engines and production levels were garbage making them very underpowered and anemic. Perhaps with neutrality they can actually get a good engine, it'll help with their tanks as well.

Statistically speaking the odds are he's abusing native tribesmen in some way.

"How many battles of the Isonzo can we get through before the war ends this time!"

I don't know about machine gunning en-masse but I know they hung and shot a few individuals for cowardice as the Soviets ground their way to Berlin.

Great thread

One of the more frustrating aspects of this topic and the Anglo Saxon Vs Romano-British topic that's further down the page is we have no sources to what languages the average person spoke, and which they considered primary.

It's also hard because we don't know the actual make up of Britain at the time. There are suggestions that the south east was seeing Germanic populations long before the invasions and that the romano-british were only skin deep. Couple that with the difficulty of splitting out Celtic and Saxon...

It can do all three, they feed into each other.

Damn I had a good one for this and missed it.

Not really.

Sarcasm is generally more interesting.

Germanic culture, Roman Law if we're being fair, it's also arguable how much of the culture is Germanic rather than Celtic anyway due to the diffuse nature of the Germanic culture and it's inherent similarity to Celtic culture and the Celtic influences on Rome itself but especially on Anglo...

I'm not going to wade into this but I'll link into two excellent articles on why the great library wasn't the Panacea that it's become a short meme for. https://historyforatheists.com/2017/07/the-destruction-of-the-great-library-of-alexandria/...

Wat.

I should point out the great wall isn't continuous and it's main aim was to divert attacking foes down specific routes rather than the standard "everyone stand here and they can't get past" depiction.

Richard did try be get in to combat with Henry Tudor otl. Charles (rip) also got into a bit of a tussle at Fornovo that could have ended badly. I'd love to do a to about that some time.

This was why I never really liked New Years, it was just another weekend with slightly more booze.

There are a whole heap of questions we just can't answer about the time period, and about the ethnic makeup and language of the British Islands at the time.