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True, but Manicheism if anything shows the importance of the former criterion as well. Mani was raised in a (very heterodox by today's standards) Christian sect and explicitly claimed to be the "Paraclete" that Christ promised would come after him in the Gospel of John. Nonetheless, Mani didn't...

If other European kingdoms are doing it, there's no reason to think England won't. If their naval forces are more interested in dominating North Sea/Baltic trade, then it's possible they just won't be interested until most of the good land is taken. That said, I think colonization is too far off...

I guess it depends on the POD. Imperial support is probably the easiest way to do it, unless something really crazy happens and you get a non-Chalcedonian revolt and conquest of Egypt that also extends up into Syria. Islam would probably have to be butterflied away too otherwise....oh, you mean...

Pope Vigilius was imprisoned in Constantinople by Justinian. It wouldn't be hard to have him die there. Wouldn't exactly be an execution but it would essentially be killing a pope. This could actually have huge effects on the development of the church so that we get an earlier great schism, or...

The attitudes in Virginia were not something I was aware of, but there remains the larger issue of the Confederate Constitution. This is the procedure for amendments (of which I'm sure at least one of you is aware): That's going to be very hard to accomplish. You'll have to get two thirds of...

Lol beat me to it. I think you'll have to make them less racist towards the Japanese, but the fact remains in any Confederate victory scenario a white Southerner will likely be more racist against black people than their OTL counterpart. The right to own black people is why the South rebelled...

Abyssinia functioned more or less this way during its decentralized Zemene Mesafint period from 1784-1855. The rulers of Yejju province were usually the Regents for the Emperor, and exercised authority over the other feudal lords much as the shogun did in feudal Japan.

It's a bit more complicated than that. Constantinople did claim a more limited type of supremacy over most of Eastern Europe because much of Eastern Europe was under its direct jurisdiction up until the beginning of the 20th century. It also had a strong de facto authority over the Eastern...

It's also worth noting that the conversion of much of the core Muslim areas to Islam took a long, long time. From what I understand, much of the Middle East was still plurality Christian by the time of the Crusades. Other areas like Spain and the Balkans which saw centuries of Islamic rule did...

That doesn't quite fit the OP, which asks for a surviving Byzantine Empire. I don't think it fits the politics of the Ottomans either, who would probably not want to give Lucaris that much support because it would create unnecessary schisms. By that point the Ecumenical Patriarch was the...

I've commented on threads like this before, and rather than drag up my old posts about why the ideological/theological/political framework isn't really in place in the Orthodox East for Protestantism as it arose in the West, it might be more conducive to ask the OP: What, for the purposes of...

I've mentioned this before and will do so again here. What would the grievances be that would motivate a Reformation? There needs to be a sense that the Orthodox Church is so rotten to its core that there has to be something wrong with the doctrine, not just its administration (schisms over...

So does the presence of all those settlements in the Andaman islands mean the local groups have been wiped out? That would be a shame.

For what would become the American Southwest I see sveral possibilities: 1) It stays Spanish/Mexican. It wouldn't have had much value at the time so there wouldn't have been much impetus to conquer it. Settlement from TTL's British North America is likely to be slower given Britain's somewhat...

No problem. Here to help if you have questions. Also, it just occurred to me if you were looking for "blessed" in the sense of happy/fortunate, you might want to use beata instead of benedicta. As for "Isle of the Dead," you could go with "insula mortuorum/defunctorum"

Haven't gotten very far in the TL, but I'm a big fan. One minor nitpick is that "Insulam de Benedictus" doesn't make any sense in Latin. It would have to be either "Insula Benedicta" (Blessed Isle) or "Insula Benedictorum/Sanctorum" (Isle of the Blessed/Saints).

A big question is going to be whether or not continued Catholic control of the Holy Land and the Eastern Mediterranean in general means the papacy has more funds to work with. If it does, there might not be a sale of indulgences. If there's no sale of indulgences, that might not completely...

Maybe a surviving Byzantine Empire that holds onto Suez begins to colonize the Indian Ocean? That, coupled with a more naval-focused Chinese dynasty could lead to conflict.

I think difficult but not impossible is the best we can hope for under the OP. The fact that there is, in theory, a basis for a nationalism and a sense of common identity is really what's needed here. I think the main reasons Hebrew was successful was 1) The speakers of the revived language had...

Is this the empire at its greatest extent? My theory is that we're dealing with a Turkic/horse Nomad empire that did conquer Anatolia but were later pushed out (as ridiculous as the idea of Turks in Normandy is, bear with me, I'm not saying it was long term). The expansion into North Africa...