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My own bet would be on the Ilergetes tribe of the Ebro valley. In OTL during the Second Punic War, Polybius in his Histories refers to the chieftains of this tribe as being the most powerful among the Iberians. The Roman historian Livy records them as being able to raise 20-30,000 infantry and...

Before the Second Punic War the eastern and southern coasts of what is now Spain were occupied by independent tribes referred to by Classical authors as the Iberians. Speakers of a non-Indo-European language (or languages), they had centuries of contact with Phoenician and Greek colonies. They...

Although the alt-Fascist would love autarky, in practice they would try to replace overseas food sources with continental European ones, particularly from central and southern Europe. Maintaining economic ties to the Soviet Union would also be extremely important for food security purposes...

Honest question: how close to carrying capacity was the Reich? Is there no room for high-density urban sprawl as seen in other nations? Was the food situation so desperate that invading other nations was the only solution for low agricultural yield?

In my mind food production would be extremely important to these alt-Fascists, which would necessitate a major increase in agricultural mechanization. Just like with the Nazis, however, deficit spending in would be pursued to achieve any goal perceived to be of national importance. This assumes...

What if instead of the Nazis with their focus on lebensraum by conquest, another fascist movement comes to power that instead seeks to greatly increase ethnic German immigration while simultaneously expelling "undesirables" ( Jews, Gypsies, etc.). They still want the territories lost in WWI and...

So without diplomatically acquiring Austria is Hitler's next move to arrange a putsch in Vienna? The Austrian branch of the Nazis were banned in 1933, but were there crypto-Nazis in the Austrian military willing to rebel, provided they had clandestine help?

Although the Anschluss was definitely a diplomatic coup for Hitler and a prestige boost, does it really materially affect his preparations for war? I've never read anything to suggest that Austria provided an indispensable source of manpower or industrial capacity for Germany's war effort...

Ongoing violence in Zaolzie prevented the plebiscite from being conducted. Could the French have provided security forces to allow for a safe vote? France seems like the only power with an interest in the situation, wanting to be on good terms with both nations for alliance reasons.

Throughout the interwar years the various border disputes between the two nations prevented a military alliance that might have offered some protection against the rising menace of Nazi Germany and the USSR. Were there any mediation efforts that ever had even a reasonable chance at success, or...

You're right about the money-making potential of wool. Much of the heavier wool could be sold for use by the legions along the Rhine-Danube frontier. Perhaps sail-making could be another export market, assuming wool has an advantage over linen in the cold, stormy northern seas. Once Christianity...

As a long-lasting client state adjacent to a comparatively wealthy Roman province, it seems natural that a desire for Roman luxury goods would spread among the Brigantian upper stratum. It seems that these would be paid for with horses, cattle, and slaves. Raiding for cattle and slaves was...

I could see in such an expansion the creation of an "Antonine Wall" by the Brigantes to protect against Pictish incursion. Like its OTL version, it would no doubt be built of turf but would not be abandoned less than a decade after completion. As for the lower Roman military presence, how many...

Instead of being conquered by Rome as a consequence of a dynastic struggle in 70 CE, suppose the Brigantes tribe remains a loyal Roman client until Rome withdraws from Britain entirely. This tribe occupied perhaps the largest territory in pre-conquest Britain, in what is generally referred to...

The Lithuanians seemed to have had a cohesiveness and hierarchy that the Old Prussians lacked, enough so that they were able to sign a treaty with Galicia-Volhynia in 1219. This predates Konrad of Masovia's offer to the Teutonic Order of Prussian land, so it seems that the Lithuanian's didn't...

In the early part of the Great Prussian Uprising (1260-1274), the Old Prussians, a collection of pagan tribes centered around historical Konigsberg, had beaten the Order repeatedly in the field and pushed them back to five remaining castles in what would be called East Prussia. The most famous...

During the 14th century, the territory of the duchy, like today, was small by current standards. The dynasty that ruled it however, the House of Luxembourg, was far from insignificant. It provided three Holy Roman Emperors during the 14th century, Kings of Bohemia and Hungary, and Archbishops of...

Suppose in 1902 the lobbying for a Panamanian canal fails and Congress chooses Nicaragua instead. The president of Nicaragua at this time was Jose Santos Zelaya Lopez, an energetic and talented man with dreams of reuniting all of Central America into one nation. From the little I know about him...

Very interested in seeing this TL return.

One of the interesting possibilities of TTL is the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, should Shapur I decide to resettle Jewish refugees there. It was still a Roman pagan city at this point, so I don't see the locals protesting nearly as much as the Christians did when Khosrau II...