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  1. Mr_Fanboy

    How long and could it take for the Byzantine (Roman) Empire to industrialize?

    Like, those borders exactly? They remain static for another thousand years? Not even parts of Italy being carved off? Well, one wonders how the rest of European history would unfold...
  2. Orry

    The Forge of Weyland

    It did quite good service as a night fighter until better aircraft came along later in the war
  3. How long and could it take for the Byzantine (Roman) Empire to industrialize?

    Which is why zi said social and political changes are needed for that to happen. Rome did not produce a scientific revolution or even any truly significant scientific advancement despite having almost perfect means to do that (a large class of educated people with a lot of free time and easy...
  4. Looking for a Britishscrew Timeline with princes killing princes...

    I don't remember whether it was a minor timeline or a particularly Britishscrew part of a more major TL, but a Crown Prince (or young British King) killed one of his brothers, wounded another and then committed Suicide (or something similar), the event was in either the Late 1700s or early 1800s.
  5. The Forge of Weyland

    Fair point, I am bad enough with a compass and an OS Map at walking pace (for the really young this was what we had to do pre Google Maps) so to be able to do at in the air at those speeds whilst being shot at! I was trying to point out that the army didn't always cover itself with glory at...
  6. TheSwedishHistorian

    WI: American Panama?

    Overall this would make the USA quite a lot more involved in Latin American affairs and dependent on their security. The current Venezuelan situation would never have been permitted in this timeline.
  7. How long and could it take for the Byzantine (Roman) Empire to industrialize?

    As far as the OTL invention of calculus go, you may actually see that someone that is already involved in studying "theoretical physics" is actually fairly likely to develop calculus (although I personally side with Leibnitz in this controversy, TBH). Be as it may, random geniuses seldom get...
  8. Visual art alternate history discussion

    The Egytians had wigs. I wonder what would have happened if they improved them.
  9. KaiserFriedrichIV

    Andrew III of Hungary has a son

    But question what does butterflies mean
  10. Solar Dreams: a history of solar energy (1878 - 2025)

    Wind power, water power, and if Ctesebius had gotten it right, air pumps, using bellows to fill air tanks. They had both bellows and pistons. Archytas had the idea of rocket power. If you add it up, possibly you could have a form of primitive compressed air.
  11. WI: American Panama?

    Maybe. On the other hand, it could end up being quite a bit richer than Puerto Rico if both are US territory. They’re pretty close in per capita terms as is ( PR is richer).
  12. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Oh right. I forgot the Dual Monarchy wasn't a thing back then.
  13. WI: Syria and Lebanon never separated?

    No The French got Syria in 1918, that decades to change the situation in the middle east.
  14. A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    Remember, though, that Henry's reputation doesn't tank due to the Great Matter never happening, the beheading of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard never happening; ditto for Bishop John Fisher and Thomas More, and no Act of Succession. A lot of what made otl Henry so monstrous will never happen...
  15. WI British/Italian war in the 1930s

    The first and last time Germany formally declared war during WW2.
  16. TheSwedishHistorian

    What if Rome discovered America?

    The only reasonable way I could see that happen is that Rome cashes in on the west coast (Africa) slave trade more by taking more territory and trading more there, and then by accident discovering south America. I doubt they could colonize it in any organized or numerous ways. They would be...
  17. RedKing

    A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    True, I guess, but then again he seems like the type of person to try and stay neutral in such a conflict. My only concern with Philiberta is that she died in 1524, though that is easily butterfly-iable
  18. Western Islam or Eastern Islam: which is the more radical divergence?

    Wasnt discrimination by the Byzantines and Sassanids one reason why Arabic assimilation was so successful? Aramaic speakers had a different religion than the one of Byzantines/Sassanids and their language had lower status, so they quickly adopted the language of their Arabic cousins
  19. The Children of Camelot

    I could have sworn. Maybe I mixed it up with something else.
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