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Excelente update as always, I would like to comment on some points. Ottoman Empire. Suleiman's legacy will be very much like Justinian's legacy. Suleiman has conquered the poorest part of Italy that has suffer decades of endemic wars and depopulation and now will have to spend a ton of money...

Great TL much better than the first. In the Wikipedia article about Gildo (I have a cousin with this same name) says: " Incited by the political machinations of the eunuch Eutropius, Gildo seriously entertained the notion of joining the Eastern Roman Empire by pledging fidelity to Arcadius." It...

I read somewhere that the original indigenous population that spread through America was very small caused a low genetic and immunological diversity primarily in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), as a consequence that the same population will respond in the same way to an infection...

Perhaps colonization is initiated as the Baltic Crusades financed by the church, some powerful nobles and the crown and with passing of the time and pacification of the natives the initiative will attract the second sons of the nobles the greatest attraction will be the abundance of land. I...

Another possibility is that the region becomes a bastion of Protestantism with a heavy Huguenots predominance, OTL existed several Huguenots pirates and before even French crown they had created their own colonies, another interesting factor would be the revitalization of the Breton language...

First you need a less Francophille nobility, Perhaps Arthur I became king instead of John lackland and have the duchy more close to England.

You do not need wolves, domesticated dogs can easily exterminate a herd the poor animals literally die of fear, it happened on my father's farm, goats on the other hand are much more resilient.

From everything I have read about Philip, if he survives the assassination attempt, he is not likely to have a long life, and as for his achievements, I believe that the conquest the Greek cities of Anatolia and perhaps the Lydia satrapy for a defense in depth.

And if the Romans do not expand to the south, it probably reduces the chances of fighting against Carthage, perhaps if there is a war in the region, it will be a Carthaginian against Syracuse and his Macedonian ally. Perhaps in this case the Roman senate focuses on fighting against the Celts of...

Can the King of England be also the Prince-Elector of Saxony and accumulate various fiefdoms through weddings and become powerful enough to be elected Emperor and cause an alternate hundred years War which would be a Civil War of the Holy Roman Empire, In short instead of the king of England...

There is the tendency of peoples in hostile environments with scarce resources mainly in arid lands to have a deep religiosity like here in Brazil the Northeasterner/nordestinos are notorious for their religiosity, people with comfort and fullness are less religious. I live next to a sanctuary...

Perhaps a magyar 2.0, first ir is necessary that they settle in hungary and fron there raid italy, France, Germany and if the passes are unguarded the Iberian peninsula like did the magyar did century before.

I think ir Would be better for the Empire and more compatible a model closert o that the Janissaries, an elite infantary paid personally by the emperor nas loyal only to him and tb é dynasty.

If Augustus or some other later emperors replace the Praetorian Guard by a slave army with excellent training and equipment and loyal only to the emperor, Will this in the long run help the empire? Contribute to its stability? Perhaps less civil wars but more coups d'état? no Crisis of the Third...

If the Abbasid's loses everything east of persia this will help them or hasten the decline?

"Arabization" i think he means is the use of the Arab as administrative language, so if you want to benefit from the government then it is good to learn Arab. The process is inevitable, with the passage of time it is only natural that the power will pass from the local elites to the descendants...

It cam be done, if the Miaphysites win the Christologicals dispute in the Vth century and you have Armenian Byzantine Emperor instead of Zeno and relative stable dynasty that moves Armenian settlers to the balkans to guard the danube frontier and repopulate the areas devastated by the Huns and...

Arm race inside your borders that surest way to get a civil war.

The objective is a blockade of Russia, the ottoman’s are blocking the black sea and with Denmark occupied the baltic is sealed too, this leave only Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok to recived outside help, is this a good idea? Cam be done? And the consequences ?

The bigest problem of irealnd is the kingdom of England, indenpendece first thing they have to do and then a centralization of the kingdom, if you do this early like XIII or XIV century you cam have alternate Portugal, that is the best that Ireland can achieve in terms of colonization.