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I have a question. Do any of you know of a serious scholarly attempt to categorize various "types" of religious schism. I'm thinking something along the lines of a cross study of major religions seeking parallels in historical circumstances that caused the many schisms that come about in...

Hello everyone. I have begun consideration of timelines that will cause an alternative discovery of America, and thus have to consider one of the most devastating consequences of that discovery. Smallpox devastated native american populations in our history, and thus one has to weigh the...

Sea Peoples Hi Niko. Its my understanding that the Egyptians had a general term for the many migratory tribes of Sea Peoples that showed up during the Bronze Age Collapse. Can you tell us what that general term, "Peoples of the Sea" was in proper Egyptian?

Niko, Forgive my confusion and asking a question well after the fact. But where does the title "Divine Adoratrice" come from? I was under the impression that title didn't emerge in conventional history until well after the 18th Dynasty. Is there some poetic license at work here (Aten laying...

More questions. Sorry. Among other strange names for Punt that I've found was a rather colorful title of "Ladders of Incense" or in the alternate translation "Terraces of Incense". Two questions: 1. What do you consider the correct translation? 2. How should that appear in Ancient Egyptian?

Niko, did the Egyptians have a name for the Persian Empire? Besides various colorful euphemisms for camel dung, of course.

Niko, how are the other cults of Egypt doing right now? Has Egypt gone full blown mono-theistic, or is the worship of other gods still accepted (if perhaps not encouraged)? If memory serves, Akhetaten is very close to the center of Thoth's cult. Has proximity benefited that group in any way? On...

Too late to contribute to this? Hope not. Guy Fawkes is a favorite jumping off point for when I want to explore the truimph of some of the political movements witnessed mid-century during the English Civil War. Reasonable to assume that such an extreme event might have given rise to extremist...

True enough, but you let history play out over a long enough period that's really the best you can hope for. The current "true" Egyptian Empire, for instance, surely isn't gonna last forever. The best you can hope for is that some later generation of Nile Valley dwellers decides to build an...

Thanks for the reply, Niko. I have another for you. What's the status of Minoan culture per se at this time? I know it has been in decline for well before your divergence, but has it been completely subsumed into Mycenaean-Greek to the point where it is indistinguishable from the cultures on...

I'd suggest maybe if the FMV games weren't so crappy then maybe things would have turned out better, but I think that's too many ADBs.

Niko, I know this particular question goes much further down the line than where we are right now, but I'll ask anyway. How do you imagine that a Hurrian kingdom like the Mitanni adopting Atenism will affect the development of Mithraism, and therefore Zoroastrianism and Hinduism? I've read some...

Well, no one says it has to go well for the French. Though if the Ottomans turn south to save Egypt I'd expect the Germans to take advantage of the situation to retake their lands and perhaps start an invasion of their own.

I'll let wikipedia explain: "Von Boyneburg did much to promote Leibniz's reputation, and the latter's memoranda and letters began to attract favorable notice. Leibniz's service to the Elector soon followed a diplomatic role. He published an essay, under the pseudonym of a fictitious Polish...

Nihao, I think you'll find more than one (now sadly defunct) threads on this very board who have at least poked at the idea of using Mohism as the basis of Chinese thought in place of Confucianism. Some (myself included) have even postulated a scientific revolution a few dozen hundred years...

"If the Egyptians discover the New World, they could call it "Ta-Netjer", or "God's Land", a term often used romantically to describe far-off locations (at least, that's what MOST scholars think - it could also refer directly to Ethiopia... Or Somalia... Or Yemen... We're not really sure...

Title is a little weird, I know. Here's the challenge- sometimes in history a great thinker comes along to call for some philosophical utopia based a particular set of ideas they dream up. And sometimes in history (Lenin with Marx, the Reign of Terror with Rousseau) some revolutionary comes...

When I look at the year 1415 I see something akin to a fool's paradise with regard to alternate historians. The Council of Constance, the battle of Agincort, the conquest of Cuerta...some many events with so many long range impacts on history, all just waiting for that metaphorical monkey wrench...

An update on my old thoughts: What if a Chinese Emperor, like Huangdi or Emperor Wu, employed a third party to search the Pacific for the legendary Island of the Immortals (supposedly certain emperors were obsessed with this myth and the notion that they could live forever). I'm thinking here...

What is your opinion on the Portugal loss at the conquest of Cuerta and the death of Henry the Navigator? And, since I have multiple timelines going on in my head right now, is there any justifiable reason (aside from "butterflies") the the successful execution of the Southampton Plot (e.g...