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For me the most exciting part about Mongol armies (especially the early Mongol armies) is the crucial lack of information. The Mongols themselves left us next to nothing about this matter; first of all this information was so obvious for any Mongol that it was ridiculous to write it down - if...

There was another candidate for conquering (coastal) Arabia - Ptolemaic Egypt. It was developing it's own maritime trade in the Indian Ocean, competing with the Arabs; the Red Sea became kind of "Ptolemaic Lake"; the regular expeditions were transporting elephants by sea from the Eastern Africa...

If Arabia is conquered by Alexander the Great or one of his successors in one piece that would most probably make the further unification of Arabia easier. When/if the Hellenistic Arabia falls apart (which is very expected, as soon as the first Macedonian/Greek dynasty looses it's grip). I...

The problem with conquering is that it doesn't solve the problem with "bordering the evil Barbarians". Every time you conquer new territories you get other Barbarians bordering your new province(s) - usually even more warlike and unruly. And instead of one problem you now have two problems -...

Oh, Rome mentioned again. That's intriguing what part to play SlyDessertFox reserved for Rome later in his TL...

First of all, the core of the ethnic true Huns were 'from the far eastern steppes'. There is no slightest doubt about it among the historians. Where else would you get the Mongoloid nomads from? There are archaeological findings where the Huns' Mongoloid racial traits are explicit along with...

In a way, yes, I think you're right, Diocletian was not a great economist. His was a rough soldier's way to deal with economics. I guess his main idea was - saving the Roman World, not making it any better. He was something like a 'crisis manager', or better a 'catastrophe manager'. But he...

I am not an expert on history of Islam. Actually far from it. But I do remember one fact which stuck in my memory: Two adult (grown-up) sons of Fatima were killed in battle by the Muslims... ...and that did not send psychologic shock waves through the Islamic world. This thing went pretty...

Ye, it doesn't seem Khawarezmhah had much of a choice. By that time Genghis Khan was steadily subjugating the parts of the Great Eurasian Steppe to the North of the Khawarezmhah's Empire. And you don't just unite the nomads in the steppe, you do it for a reason - to lead them...

Oh, if I am not mistaken that is going to be the first military contact of the Hellenistic Alexander the Great's successors with Rome. I am not sure 2 000 will make any impact though...