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And to what extend it is related with other more long term factors such as stronger barbarians, or change of roman economy unrelated to actions of the Severans, or Plague of Cyprian, the rise of the Sassanids or other factors. Actions I am thinking about is Severus expansion of roman legions...

I have been looking at many crossbow videos recently and what I was imagining/wondering is what kind of effective bows could have been developed and used if there was no gunpowder. So, there is the modern crossbow, what improvements that are related to the modern crossbow over the older...

Especially the financial costs. The question came to me in the context of reading this http://www.roman-emperors.org/phocas.htm and the challenges that Maurice faced.

I would prefer the scenarios explored have France doing better or being better prepared than Germany doing worse.

The February revolution happens but the Bolsheviks don't eventually triumph. A) What do you need to change to reach this result (is it possible?) B) What are the changes in human and Russian history out of this

Even at the time we had Ferdinand Foch's prophetic "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years" What is the best possible Versailles treaty that would help avert a second world war? * this alternative timeline treaty does not have to be called versailles treaty

"I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists ... I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawn mower." "Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer ... I always wanted...

A) What kind of different tactics would it require than the ones that happend historically for his army to decisively defeat the Romans? B) What would be the effects/results and differences in the timeline from this event?

What if the philosophy of Mozi was the dominant philosophy in China? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohism#Meritocratic_government Meritocracy, consequentialism, and indiscriminately caring for all people are some of the central aspects of its beliefs. It does seem however that in this...

What changes would be needed to keep the interest of the population and politicians and investment in space high, and continuous from the space race to today and the future. And what could be the possible benefits?

Cassander also tragically dies due to illness. In truth even though we don't know for sure how Alexander died, in this alternate history Alexander the Great learned that Cassander was planning to murder him and Cassander end was called an illness. And in this alternate history it was a plot with...