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So as we all know, the Roman Empire collapsed under the weight of its own bureaucracy, its military instability (the fact that soldiers were loyal to generals, not emperors) and Imperial overstretch. This was al brought on by the numerous barbarian invasions of the 5th century AD which saw the...

Ok so I started this a little while backbut I didn't keep it going- tiem makes fools of us all. Anyway, here's everythign I've written; it's broken up for ease of reading. Please to comment and nit pick as muc has you want! The first Peloponnesian War began in 460 BC and ended in 454. It was...

There seems to be a chronic shortage of Athenian timelines here, or at least recent ones. This is one I've been working on for a few weeks and I hope it goes down well. Here we go readers, for we are about to enter the world of the Athenian democracy, of towering giants, canniving despots and...

So in the mid-late 15th century the Kingdom of Castille and the Kingdom of Portugal were, culturally, closer together than Castille/Aragon. What if, by some sort of marraige alliance, Castille united with Portugal instead of Aragon? This would surely affect the New world- Columbus thought he...

Something I knocked together out of bits and pieces floating through my mind, I basically had three main ideas and I managed ot mash them together. I'll put this out there and if there's interest I'll write more. If it's torn apart though I'll probably go and cry though, so be as mean as you...

This TL's going to be what many would call an Otto-wank. However, as it begins with a massive disaster, it's more of a Timur-wank (at first). The Battle of Ankara and the subsequent Ottoman reforms turned the nomadic Anatolians into a 'proper' gunpowder empire. Well, here's a more shall we...

Ok, what if, during the invasion of India, Alexander the Great's army is surrounded and slaughtered by Porus's forces. Say Alexander and all his top generals are killed (Ptolemy, Seleucus, Perdiccas etc.) as is most of the entire Macedonian power structure. So, what would happen? How would the...

Over the past week DusanUros and I have been speculating over the progression of Basileus Giorgios's time line, Isaac's Empire. When our extrapolations turned out to be along the wrong line of thought, we thought that we should create what we have dubbed an 'alternate-alternate history'...