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  1. Ottoman Empire Never Exists: Failure of Osman I and a longer-lasting Byzantium

    By the point in time Osman came to power, Byzantium is a spent force and it's only a matter of time before they're destroyed. Andronikos II is among the most inept rulers in history for his multitude of bad decisions. During Osman's era they really lucked out on things like managing to...

  2. Best way to abort Christianity after Constantine?

    My concept is that Julian would be the beginning of a "pagan counteroffensive" (so to speak) based on institutions he innovated, the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem (there was a lot of crossover between Jews and Christians in this era), and inspiration for scholars and philosophers to...

  3. WI: Ivy League bans southern students?

    Probably more distinct Southern culture, since the aforementioned Magnolia League schools were at one point major centers of Southern intellectuals. Maybe less "carpetbagger" types because having an education from the North would be less valuable in the South? These are private colleges which...

  4. If Sol Invictus had become the main western religion, could it survive until our days?

    Sol Invictus's personification is the Sun, which is independent from the physical object that we call the Sun. So more knowledge about the Sun wouldn't exactly kill worship of Sol Invictus any more than people learning more about engineering rivers killed the worship of river gods. Even OTL, the...

  5. Best Non-England Location for Industrialization?

    India has ample coalfields, forests, and a lot of potential for water wheels. But the interesting thing I was reading about the other day suggests that a lot of technology in India did not arrive until the era of the Delhi Sultanate. Like the famous spinning wheels (think Gandhi and one of his...

  6. AH Concept: East Asian West Coast in the 19th Century

    East Asian toponymy can get very abstract, like look at all the places meaning something like "east of the mountains" (Shandong) or "north of the river" (Hebei). You might get something . Or you might get an indigenous toponym, like "Taiwan" which is from the native name for a river on that...

  7. Best way to abort Christianity after Constantine?

    That's straight up determinism. North Africa was incredibly Christian to the point of being famed for fanatical sects like the Circumcellions (although that sect may have been a regional African version of the Bagaudae peasant rebels). There were dozens of bishoprics and many both urban and...

  8. Best way to abort Christianity after Constantine?

    It's a place given to humanity by the gods so that humans might one day return to a divine state. That's very different than seeing the world as a fundamentally evil place as in Christianity or Gnosticism. It's also an idea which has obvious mass appeal given it appears in many different...

  9. Best way to abort Christianity after Constantine?

    Platonism =/= Gnosticism. Plotinus for instance wrote in opposition of Gnosticism and condemned it for believing the creator was evil. That doesn't sound like he thought there was a tyrannical demiurge, and in fact quite the opposite where the world was a necessary place to exist until one's...

  10. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan

    Sorry about that, I had to make it readable. Now it is readable if you zoom in.

  11. Map Thread XXII

    Crossposting the latest map from my TL, Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice. I envisioned with the success of the Mongols in Japan TTL and resulting butterflies from the Japanese goods (everything from rice to gold to silver) seized and exported to China that this might result in the success of the...

  12. Sea of Blood, Sea of Ice--The Mongol Conquest of Japan
    Threadmarks: Map 4-Eastern Mediterranean after the Tenth Crusade

    Here is a map of the Eastern Mediterranean at the start of 1307. It chronologically followers Chapter 38 and shows the result of the Mongol-Papal alliance that resulted in the successful Tenth Crusade and defeat of the Mamluks along with the formation of the Kingdom of Anatolia by the Catalan...

  13. Pan-Asian Antinationalism

    Who is this ideology supposed to appeal to? The Chinese would consider Indians ruling over them a bunch of barbarian foreigners, Indians would consider Chinese much the same. If it's a third party like the Mongols, Japanese, Turks, etc. then they're strongly outnumbered and will face all the...

  14. Imperial China, despite any westernization it could have undergone, simply was not built to thrive as a modern day constitutional monarchy.

    That's rather deterministic. It isn't like a Chinese parliament would be deposing the monarch since in China that happened only as the result of coups, and usually when the monarch was incredibly incompetent or deeply unpopular to begin with. Which is more or less when it happened in England for...

  15. Ming conquer Indian Ocean

    They couldn't even tax all the trade in their own country thanks to corruption. How could they possibly maintain what amounts to occupying every single port, let alone ensuring every single official is submitting at least a reasonable share of the customs revenue to the central government? If...

  16. Pre-Columbian Native American cultures, PODs and alternate histories discussion

    The former is definitely interesting, even if it would have to come from the Galapagos Islands since Rapa Nui is fairly far south (and remote from South America). They'd be a great addition to coastal South America's crops. A part of me thinks that it could result in a Chimu wank, since they...

  17. Japanese China and the "imperial" titles

    There was a rough equivalent of the mandate of heaven in Japan (albeit more inspired by Buddhism and especially indigenous Shinto views), it just said the Emperor would lose his power because he appointed bad ministers and he himself was too lazy to correct the situation. But because rule of...

  18. Ming conquer Indian Ocean

    I can't see a tributary system exploitative enough to be successful in raising that much funds. Maybe it would work for a short period of time, but eventually the Southeast Asian/Indian states will get wise to it and crush the Ming. In this era, there's not enough differential between powers so...

  19. Europe never dominates the world

    Probably. I think to dominate the planet, a given culture area needs to be colonial and needs a territory to expand into and truly dominate to create a world empire. IMO a sea empire is going to be better for this than a land empire, since as the USSR and Napoleon shows, a land empire will...

  20. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Is it in any way plausible for the Bavandids or Baduspanids to conquer all Persia? They were regional dynasties in the mountains along the Caspian Sea who traced their ancestry to the Sassanids and until relatively late were Zororastrians. Although at times they had strong rulers, they never...
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