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I agree. My post was intended more to point out the problems in re-establishing Senatorial rule than to suggest a way to do it. In addition to the problems you highlight, it would be pretty foolish for an Emperor to pick out a group of people who collectively have the ability to break him, put...

A key difference between the English Parliament and the Principate Senate was that Parliament had an organic power base, while the Senate did not. Prior to the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor Reforms, the King was dependent on the barons for military support, on the church for moral...

McCain was pretty far back in the national polls until after NH, when he picked up a big chunk of support from Giuliani, Thompson, and the undecideds. McCain's campaign was also having fundraising problems and relying on loans to scrape by until winning NH triggered an upswing in contributions...

Most of the area in question was originally covered by the colonial charter of the Province of Carolina. If your POD is before (or at least not long after) the chartering of the Province of Georgia in 1732, "Carolina" could make sense as a name for the entire region.

My impression is the opposite, that Russia actually expected Germany to attack first in the East. I have a pretty clear recollection of reading somewhere that Russia had planned to abandon Congress Poland to Germany to shorten their defensive lines, and had gone so far as to build the railroads...

What counts as a surviving WRE? Would it fulfill the AHC for a barbarian kingdom to assume the WRE title and hold most of the WRE's territory (for example, if Alaric killed or captured Honorius and crowned himself Emperor), or do you require that something like the governing institutions of the...

Extreme fiscal austerity during the last few boom years. Defer any major infrastructure project that isn't urgently needed. Build up a specie reserve and have the central bank or treasury (whoever issues the currency) keep a very tight money supply. Then, when the crash hits, there's room in...

Spanish or German, the primary languages of the Hapsburg territories. Christian Europe is clearly emerging as the dominant region, and the Hapsburgs are both the dominant power bloc within Europe and the one that's on the forefront of colonizing the Americas, opening up trade links to the far...

As I understand it, this was Gustavus Adolphus's war aim: splitting the HRE into a "Catholic Empire" centered on Austria and a "Protestant Empire" centered on Sweden.

I think the Royal Navy had more Dreadnaughts than the combined USN + HSF in 1914, althought the US might be able to outproduce the British over the course of the war (especially since the UK wouldn't have access to loans and imports from the US in this scenario). The real trick would be for one...

It'd also affect the effectiveness of destroyers as offensive weapons. OTL, both sides sent destroyers to make torpedo attacks against the enemy line of battle (the Germans during the main fleet engagement, ending in a withdrawal in the face of concentrated fire, and the British in several...

Isabella Clara Eugenia and her husband Albert of Austria (both Habsburgs) ruled the Spanish Netherlands (which would later become Belgium) jointly until their deaths. Had they had a surviving child, the crown of the Spanish Netherlands would have passed to their heir rather than reverting to the...

Specifically, hydrogen gas and helium gas are both light enough that when they get into the air, they tend to escape into the upper atmosphere and get blown out into space by solar winds. The key difference is that hydrogen is highly reactive, so it readily forms into compounds that are much...

There's also economic factors: Britain's economy from the Renaissance onwards was disproportionately based on overseas trade, which both requires a significant navy for commerce protection and generates a very large pool of experienced sailors from whom to recruit the personnel for a wartime...

Prevailing views on how long and how broadly popular paganism lingered after "official" national conversions have varied. In much of the mid-20th century, the Murray Thesis enjoyed a large amount of support. In short, this view held that European paganism survived as widespread underground...

That's almost certainly a big part of why she was excluded from the regency, since otherwise as the first adult in the line of succession, she would have been the logical candidate. Richmond would have suffered a similar roadblock, since as far as I know, there isn't any precedent for a...

I'm not sure. The Lady Mary was also a child of Henry VIII, and she was 31 years old when her father died. She was very popular in the country, especially with the conservative faction of aristocracy, and unlike Richmond, she was arguably legitimate and she was in the line of succession. But she...

The Soviets' official pretext was that the Polish state had disintegrated when the government leadership had fled to Romania, so the territory was up for grabs, and the Soviets had an interest in occupying the territory for humanitarian reasons (restoring order, etc) and to prevent Germany from...

The military might get rid of Hitler before France has a chance to. Ludwig Beck, Chief of Staff of the German Army until 1938, spent much of 1938-1941 trying to organize military leaders against Hitler on the grounds that the wars Hitler was starting would be disastrous for Germany. If Germany...

I don't think Washington was involved in Shays' Rebellion, which was put down by a combination of loyal elements of the Massachusetts state militia under William Shepard and a private militia under Benjamin Lincoln . Are you perhaps thinking of the later Whiskey Rebellion?