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As we know. The Tokugawa Shogunate after the Sengoku Era lead Japan into a few hundred years of Isolationism which sadly it seems was the ongoing trend in te region. The Isolationism, which in several cases was not a complete Isolationism but, is still blamed for the general backwardness of...

Well, well. Turtledove famous series about Roman Legionaries being transported to Fantasy, World War One World is features in two new volumes.

I am curious as to how a Mexican Empire or New Spain that did not lose its land to the United States would look like to today. Would it be progressive or conservative. How would it take to immigration. What conflicts internally would evolve? Would it be the Great Power of the Americas? Would the...

Reading "Constantine Porphyrogenitus and his World" by Arnold Toynbee as a attempt to understand more about Byzantine society, how it changed, and how it could have been and I have come upon a interesting section. Here the author compare the Byzantine Emperors to those of China in their concern...

So, the Byzantine Papacy is the period from 537-752 in which the Byzantine Empire controlled a central portion of Italy, Rome, and had a deciding hand in the nature of the Bishop of Rome in the West. During this period Rome once more became a cosmopolitan city as ideas and money from the East...

Looking at the old Migration period Germanic peoples that streamed into Western Europe of them really only the Franks have more or less 'survived' with a second running to the Angle/Saxons. Those groups like Lombards became absorbed into much larger states or assimilated to the point where they...

By all accounts, Phyrrus's choice to go to Sicily instead of Macedon and accept the throne was a strategic blunder for him. While capturing the island from both Carthage and Rome would have been good in the end he could not achieve it. At first hailed as a liberator he did well until failing...

http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/history/abumuslim.htm Abu Muslim Khorasani was pretty much the most powerful general behind the revolt against the Ummayads and installment of the Abbasids. He was unfortunately swept under the rug and killed shortly after the Abbasids had won...

http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/contents_introduction.htm This seems quite...VERY informative.

The people of the Tlaxcallan confederation were pretty much the backbone of Spanish conquest of Mexico. I wonder is it possible for the Tlaxcallans to betray their Spanish allies as a result of a falling out with the Spanish and establish their own rule?