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So, the question should be why the Romans were unable to expand further down the Red Sea, perhaps turn Axum into a Client Kingdom like say, Mauritania or the Bosphoran Kingdom, and perhaps even control trading ports and outposts on the Swahilli Coast? Or is this an anachronistic concept when we...

Islam had to compete against a Pre-existing presence of Hinduism and Buddhism in South-East Asia alone. It depends really on which denomination pre-dominates the OTL Middle-Eastern region - likely, Monophysites in the Levant, and Nestorians in Persia. But still, it's not inconceivable for...

I'd still imagine the easiest way for a Christian majority world is a No Islam World. Any such world would very likely be 60%+ Christian, though probably of dozens of different denominations and variants. For instance, if Christanity reached Malay South East Asia in the same manner Islam did...

Let me give you an example. If Britain suffered some kind of Nationalist based collapse, then the Empire will definitely disintegrate. Now, if Britain suffered from a Socialist/Far Left Revolution, especially of the Internationale variant, I can assure you that the new regime would do their...

Sounds like you have a Proto-Monarchial EU going....

Honestly, it seems that the sustainability of the long term sustainability of the Assyrians is about as ASB as the rise of the Drakas.

Morthengau Plan is executed. How ASB would that be, I leave other posters to debate on.

Worst case scenario: It'll only happen when the Channel Ports are part of a Russian province.

Really? Is it inevitable that the Byzantines would loose the Levant and Egypt, i n a No Islam world? I file this under one of the irritating Pre 1900 Alternate History cliches.

Well, I did not specify how Germany attained Continental Hegemony. But without a US allied with Britain, either that, or Russian Hegemony will be the two most likely outcomes. With a Trent War, the Instigators have likely signed away the European Continent to either the Germans or Russians a...

All that's left, of course, is a picture of a Greater Second Reich stretching from the Ukraine to the Atlantic, around 1950.

I don't know why, but every-time I hear of US screw in the 19th Century, my thoughts immediately turn to the strong prospect of either Russian or German hegemony over the European Continent by the mid 20th Century.....

Here's a rather crazy idea that I would like to to see an attempt at Debunking. In case of prolonged Japanese resistance, it's widely believed on this board that the Soviets have the maritime capacity in the Pacific to successfully invade and take Hokkaido. Has anyone ever tried doing the...

Would a Flanders/Belgium that can be held by the United Provinces play a long way to helping set up a longer Dutch Golden Age too? An 80 Years war where the Dutch performs even better, taking Antwerpt and Brussels, and holding on to it..... But ultimately, the problem has to be France...

Well, the Greeks are overrated because their culture ultimately produced deriatives/intellectual descendants that became the first civilization in the world to achieve an Industrial Revolution. And whichever Civilization of sufficient size achieve an Industrial Revolution first, odds are, they'd...

You do know that the Patatas are one of the most heavily researched crops to undergo genetic modification? There's alot of Patatas derived crops that anyway are rather mainstream, even if they have only emerged in the last 50 years. As for the pre-genetic revolution Patatas, I'm sorry to say...

So, basically, China below the Yangtze remains Austronesian in language and Culture, instead of becoming Sinicized?

I can forsee that if European states become the first powers to project power on a global scale, that we might see Wars of Religions raging across the length and breath of East Asia and South East Asia with the coming of Trinitarian Christianity in a sea of Arianist and Gnosticdox Semi-Christian...

Is this a No Islam and no Zoroastian/Buddhist Wank TL with a POD in late antiquity too? That's a very, very rare choice - are the various splintering sects of Christanity spreading East-wards steadily, without Islam? Will we see various Christian sects spreading to South East Asia, China and...

Katanaga? Congo Free State Mk II ahoy!