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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Pergamum Parchment The word "parchment" is derived from Pergamum (via the Latin pergamenum and the French parchemin). Pergamum was a thriving center of parchment production during the Hellenistic period.[8] The city so dominated the trade that a legend...

In Hellenistic times? Many,many more that in 16th century.

What if Archimedes of Syracuse,or Ctesibius of Alexandria or another Hellenistic genius had invented the printing press (and the paper) in III century AD?

Well,the idea is that the old Empire become a Federation. Even if the head of the state is the Augsburg Emperor,is not more a "Empire" but a close Commonwealth,a federation of peoples with local Parliaments,but also a federal parliament,a federal government and a Prime Minister of...

No,this hypotetical federation is formed before the great war (if in this timeline is a great war). Franz Joseph die in early 1900 and the new Emperor (Rudolph,if Mayerling tragedy don't happen or Franz Ferdinand) change the Empire in a Fedration of peoples (less or more as in "United States of...

Imagine that in early 1900 the dream of Arcidukes Rudolph and Franz Ferdinand come true,and that the Austro-Hungarian Empire become a federation of peoples under the Ausburg crown. How call the new federation? "United States of greatest Austria" is too much on Austria. Ausburgic federation...

Possible a British intervention in Austro-Prussian war for defend Hannover?

After his accession in 1714, George Louis of the House of Hanover ascended the throne of Great Britain as George I, and Hanover was joined in a personal union with Great Britain.During the British Regency and the reigns of kings George IV and William IV from 1816 to 1837, their younger brother...

What if,we said after WW-II,The Commonwealth countries,or at least UK,Canada,Australia and New Zeland,had organized in the same way of the modern European Union,with a Parlamient,and institutions as Council of the Commonwealth Union, the Commonwealth Commission, the Court of Justice of the...

"slightly slows dow technological in some fields and slow a bit social progress". Yes,i agree. But also without WW-II only, i think that decolonization is much more slow (some colonies were very rich of petroleum and raw materials,think to Libia,think to many African countries,and others could...

Human factor is important in modern history? What if Kaiser Willhielm ( or a alternate Kaiser) had been very anglophile and absolutely determined to have excellent relations (and possibly a alliance) with British Empire? Could the Kaiser determine the military and foreign policy of his country?

This is not entirely true. Difference were emphasized from late 60s from leftist scholars (for the most communists) that wanted strike the National Italian identity and the indipendence movement of XIX century that in their vision was bourgeois and monarchical. Until late 60s the value of...

What if Ireland was declared Dominion (like Canada) in 1907?

How? Is a little isolated communty of Macedonians and greeks descendants without any contact with the western world for centuries (long before that romans leave Britania). Exactly as the OTL Kalesh.

The Kalash people are a Dardic indigenous people residing in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalasha language, from the Dardic family of the Indo-Iranian branch. They are considered unique among the peoples of Pakistan.They are also considered to...

Is coincevable a scenario (start to 1860 circa) in which Russia (and possibly France) intervene aganist Prussia in 1866? What changes are needed?

Ottoman Empire was the best hunting ground for Russia. Every European Powers (starting to Napoleon I ) could find a good agreement with Czars, pushing Russia to conquest of Costantinople. Not a bad idea for Bonaparte...he Roman Emperor of West and Aleksandr I Roman Emperor of the East. Tellus...

Russians were shortsighted. Allow the birth of a new great power (and potential menace)next to them,when they could crush in the cradle. Same for France. If Prussia had been destroyed from a great alliance of Austria,Russia,France in 1866,the war of 1870 (and the fall of French II Empire),and...

What if,for fear of greatest Prussia,the Russian Empire had joint to Austrian Empire in the war of 1866 and had attacked the Prussians? And if Napoleone III had joined too for crush the head to the Prussian snake?

If the Allied,after the WW-II had decided to divide the Germany in several states (more that East and Ovest Germany of OTL) how many "new" Germany nations could arise? And were possible put some old Geman prince as King or GrandDuke of these States?