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Chapter 1: Foundations of Faith After the Council of Jerusalem in 50 AD, Saint Peter is recorded as meeting with Saint Paul to discuss future conversion efforts. The details of this meeting are sketchy for historians. The Acts of the Apostles glosses over the meeting and most details...

What would the impact be on Greek society and philosophy (and by extension the entire western world) if the Greeks worshiped the Titans instead of the Olympians as their gods? I'm not talking about the Olympians not existing in the Greek mythology. In this scenario the Greek myths would have...

Okay we've seen tons of 'what if Japan became Catholic?' threads, but what about Japan adopting a different Christian sect as it's main religion? The Nestorians, also known as the Church of the East, are a Christian group that has existed for centuries throughout Asia. Suppose that during the...

At the dawn of the 14th century, the Templar Order was in serious trouble. Continual losses in the Holy Land had weakened the Order's prestige throughout Europe. It's financing activities, which had brought it such wealth, was drawing the eyes of the French king. Finally, the Order's private...

Okay, as everyone knows the whole Palestinian-Israeli conflict started simmering since the then end of WWI and got hot after the state of Israel was declared. What if the British had been a little more clever and had early on established that that the land of Palestine would be a duel homeland...

What if the Habsburg-Trastamara marriage alliance worked out differently? Suppose that Margaret of Austria's marriage to John, Prince of Asturias lasted longer and it was Philip the Handsome's marriage to Joanna the Mad that ended with Joanna dieing from childbirth with a stillborn. Philip of...

Okay, here is the idea that's been bugging me all day. My idea is that during the 13th and potentially the 14th centuries, a large number of Greeks (yes, I know that during this era the Greeks thought of themselves as Romans I'm just using Greek became Byzantium is the Greek half of the Roman...

That's right, lets have a China that is predominantly Catholic. Now, before anyone screams ASB! I want to make this clear: the conversion of China is supposed to be gradual. I don't expect to see a Catholic majority for at least a century after the start of conversion. My idea as the most...

Okay, the Hellenistic Era was a time of religious synergism due to in part to the Greeks encountering so many new religions from the peoples that made up the Hellenistic states. My idea is what if a religion, lets call it Angelism for sake of discussion, forms that holds that there is one God...

That's right folks, two Ottoman States exist. One state is a Christian empire consisting of all Ottoman possessions in Europe up to 1451 plus Byzantine lands and the other is a Muslim sultanate made up of all Ottoman territories in Asia Minor up to 1451. Both Ottoman states are roughly equal in...

Here's an idea that cooked up in my head: What would it take to create a tradition of royal dynasties in the Americas? I thought of a DoP that not only had a chance of establishing a tradition (in at least a good chunk of the New World) of being ruled by royalty directly. The scenario goes like...

Author's Note: all dates will be given A.U.C. (Ab Urbe condita or after the founding of the city) This is the founding of Rome (753 B.C. our calendar) The Romans underwent a massive political and cultural shift following the Millennial Strife which lasted from 988(235) to 1037(284). As stated...

Okay people, here's an idea that's been brewing in the back of my brain for a while. Thomas More was the Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII of England. Thomas lost the position and latter his life because he refused to swear allegiance to the first Act of Succession because of the...