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Chiming back in about Islam and atheistic communism, I don't think the biggest issue is whether or not the average Muslim in the empire is willing to renounce Islam so much as the fact that the Ottomans control Mecca and Medina and how they would deal with pilgrims both from their state and from...

The real interesting question would be the relationship this state would have with Islam? I think in order to succeed a native "communist" movement would have to be less secular than its counterparts in Europe, especially if they want to control Mecca/Medina or at the very least regulate the...

The Habsburgs wouldn't renounce their claim unless they were forced to (this is essentially what happened to Napoleon). Unless one of the newly consolidated kingdoms roundly beats Austria in a war and has the Habsburgs dissolve the Empire at gunpoint they'll just continue to claim the title. But...

So I voted thrice, with the following considerations: 1) Are they ruled from a historic capital/heartland of the Roman Empire? I think it's important for the successor to control land where the populace still has good cause to identify itself as Roman, and preferably to rule from a capital...

With Ethiopia the big concerns are (1) keeping whatever Muslim power controls Egypt from becoming too interested in them until they're strong enough to fend them off, and (2) being introduced to firearms and other modern technology/learning without it being both physically devastating to the...

I'm less than confident this is the case. The papacy saw Chalcedon as a huge victory and will fight hard to make sure it is not undone. Again, from a theological standpoint once the Chalcedonian formula is in place Monothelitism is a really hard sell. It's going to require the continuous effort...

Oh it was definitely that as well. The rising power of the see of Constantinople, to the extent that it was by Imperial fiat beginning to eclipse the older, more historically important sees of Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria in importance, and to the extent that the Greek language and liturgy were...

So what sort of monothelitism is it then? Under what circumstances would it have arisen? OTL's doctrine was a very specific response to a very specific debate going on in the Church at the time, and needed the context of Chalcedon and Ephesus to make any sense. At the very least I don't think...

Looking forward to this, but a slight linguistic quibble. It should be Anno Machometi, assuming Machometus (I'm assuming there were just different transliteration conventions since OTL's Latin Mahometus doesn't have the 'c') is a normal, 2nd declension masculine noun like Brutus or Augustus.

I'll just start by disclosing my bias (as a Chalcedonian Christian, seriously look up my namesake) before diving in. Personally i'm of the opinion that Monothelitism is a compromise position that's too little, too late. Once Chalcedon has been decided, there will always be a very vocal group...

It's worth mentioning that most of the cultural/theological differences that came to a head in the Great Schism were already present before the fall of the Western Empire. The theological underpinnings of the filioque had already been articulated by Augustine. The liturgy was in Latin, not...

As I had mentioned in the alternate capitals thread, Gondar could have become much larger had the circumstances of Ethiopian centralization been different. Cahokia certainly could have been larger in a situation with delayed contact with the Old World (or earlier contact that allowed for...

Always a fan @Thande and loved the update, but if you're going for Portuguese the phrase would be "Praça de Sangue," not "Plaza."

Something I've seen thrown around a couple of times on this site is that the best way to arrest the decline of the Byzantine Empire would be to avert the Plague of Justinian, but from what I understand this same plague had a crippling effect on the Sassanids as well, at a time when they had a...

I think it would be fascinating if a Confederate Civil war broke out due to irredentism. Say, for example, that Western Texas falls into Union hands and remains with the US post bellum. The Texan government, feeling sold out by Richmond,wanting its land back and unable to get Confederal support...

I had heard something about plans to name BC New Caledonia iirc

The only way I see it as doable is if it's a small group of intellectuals that never achieves a widespread following among the populace...kind of like Christian Deism. EDIT:I think that's what's so confusing about the OP. Does he mean he wants a sect the size of say, Mormonism or (even the...

Even so, the idea of a Catholic monarch would be very, very unpopular.

I wouldn't expect a reconstruction at all, unless the Brits help the North end slavery. Unless the military academies are all in the North now (they won't be because the South wouldn't stand for it), the South will have a better officer corps in an early ACW, but the North will lack the industry...