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Question: How would the District have developed if it had retained the Virginia half?

Reviewing the potential for a Islamic Southern China scenario. The biggest issue it seems is the fact that Islam appears to have largely not spread outside of the Arab/Persian merchants that lived in Guangzhou and other areas of southern China. They were more interested in trade then spreading...

So we have a Islamic Southern China which interferes mostly in Vietnam, the South China Sea, Japan and the Indonesian Islands while protecting its northern border from - a Neoconfucian dominated North China which struggling between the Steppe empires and the southern Caliphate look eastward -...

Pre-Song I believe was also prior to Southern China being majority Sinicized - so a multi-ethnic south United by Arabic as opposed to a Han Ethnic majority in the North which most likely doubles down on Confucianism and looks at all Non-Native religions as bad.

Personally I’d like to see a South China Islam TL. Islamic Arab and Persian traders were arriving in Guangzhou as early as the 7th century and had established communities in the region. Perhaps the Islamic faith catches on and slowly spreads. Later when the Tang take a nosedive an independent...

I tried a while back https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/vive-le-canada.166594/

Following Postumus’ sack of Rome, those who still were opposed to his rule fled across the Adriatic Sea to the Balkans where they raised up the former senator Tacitus to the purple as their own Emperor in Thessaloniki. Unfortunately for the opposition to the Gallican Emperor the rest of the...

That’s going to be the case. I kind of see Odaenathus as slightly less ambitious than Zenobia, or at the very least less likely to the sudden power grabs she made in Egypt and more wary of the Sassanids. He and his first born son does not die, this is going to create a bit of a power struggle...

Perhaps he was son of a Gaul? The latter, in particular from historians and from other claimants to the Purple centered in the Balkans and Syria. Though Gallic Separatism is on the rise it’s more of a Gallo-Roman superiority over Italian-Roman or Hellen-Roman.

One of the more significant factors for the Gallic legions raising Postumus as their own local Emperor was the economic crisis that had been ongoing for years prior to the Gallic revolt. Succession of the Purple may have been a key factor to the crisis but so was rampant inflation and economic...

Guess I’ll just promote my own TL on the subject.. Rome is captured by the Gallic Empire but its status as the functioning capital is degraded and the regional power is distributed to other centers - The Rhineland, Thessaloniki, Alexandria and Palmyra...

Well, there is a few centuries work of butterflies so just about anything is potential but one has to take a look at the ground level of things. The ruling classes of Al-Andalus and the Taifa states I believe were largely Arab and Berber tribal groups. So when approaching historical trends you...

Doing a bit more research before I make my next post but from what I’ve read it certainly looks like the Northern Provinces were on their way to becoming a separate monetary zone by themselves. According to a study of coinage during the era - namely the bronze based antoninanus - was common in...

Crisis of the Third Century. Gallienus, Claudius, and Aurelian get themselves killed. Roman Empire breaks up into autonomous sections with the Roman Balkans and western Anatolia as one. Spend more time defending against the Goths and later Slavs than reuniting the Empire as the Gallics are too...

I guess you would need probably an earlier and stronger Greek colonization of Crimea which helps transform the peninsula into a much more developed site. So the area is able to have a much stronger population base which can absorb various steppe tribes that might manage to conquer it.

Why weren’t the Byzantines able to extend their control over the entire Crimea?

The Age of Gunpowder: The Fuse Is Lit Habashah stands alongside the Ottoman Empire, the Safavids, and the Mughals as the four premier Islamic powers of the early modern period. All four would acquire gunpowder artillery and small arms using these to expand or enforce their territories as the...

My poor map of my Islamic Ethiopia TL, "The Abridged History of Al-Habashah: Islamic Ethiopia", during the mid-16th century when Habashah is going full Gunpowder Emprie across eastern Africa. . As you can see we have Habashah proper directly ruled by the Emperor in Great Barara - including a...

Here is a map of the Habshab state during the mid 16th century. As you can see we have Habashah proper directly ruled by the Emperor in Great Barara - including a small portion across the straits which is directly apart of Imperial rule. The Arab Vassalages are the oldest held by the Habashabs...

I’d say probably closer to Italy proper. Narbonensis has plenty of examples of Sucellus Silvanus dedications so it was certainly in the sphere of influence of the Gallo-Roman gods.