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  1. Cryostorm

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    By the way I have been reading it, it seems like Mesopotamia is going to end up being Persia's Egypt in the long run. And as they get that settled Persia also seems to have turned their eyes east and north to bring back Central Asia and the Hindu Kush fully under the Ottoman banner once more...
  2. Cryostorm

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Not disagreeing at all, just pointing out that B444 has Rhome maintaining cultural chauvinism for their chief form of bigotry rather than an ethnic/racial based one from OTL/ITTL western Europe. So bigotry more like modern China or India rather than USA.
  3. Cryostorm

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    We already have a taste of that with their cultural civilization level outlook where they view certain cultures as higher than others based on how civilized they are, with cultures like the Romans, Persians, Chinese, Japanese, Ethiopians, and Vijayanagarans/Indians all having high marks for...
  4. Cryostorm

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Also, 25% is still a pretty big profit margin, bigger than margins for some industries get today, and what's considered part of the cost of production can be fluid so it won't have a huge effect outside of short-circuiting some of the more blatant and egregious examples of the 18th-19th century...
  5. Cryostorm

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    I do want to point out there's a big difference between a command economy like the Soviets and a state capitalist style economy, which is essentially what China, South Korea, Japan and to lesser extents what Germany, France, and even the US at times used. Also I get the feeling that the...
  6. Cryostorm

    Would the Jin conquer the Southern Song if the Mongol Empire never existed?

    It would be, more than three times as long as the last dissolution of China during the Five Dynasties period. At the same time it's extremely plausible, the northern China, especially if incorporating the Mongolian steppe, would be heavily influenced by the cavalry traditions of the Mongols...
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    Would the Jin conquer the Southern Song if the Mongol Empire never existed?

    It is very plausible, if the Jin hadn't ground their military and economy against the Song, or better yet spent that on pacifying its northern and western frontiers, its likely they could have weathered or even repelled the Mongol invasions, if not preclude them from being more than the usual...
  8. Cryostorm

    Would the Jin conquer the Southern Song if the Mongol Empire never existed?

    Yes, part of the whole reason the Jin were declining, and the Song, was from the failed invasions that were beaten back by the Song and the Song themselves assisted the Mongols in breaking the Jin. The Song couldn't really invade the north on their own but were a pain to conquer, it still took...
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    How to foster a more equal trade relationship between Rome and China?

    Another thing that could be done is speed up when silk worms were smuggled to Greece and get cotton into Egypt sooner. Those two things would vastly help balance the trade deficit by reducing the amount brought in.
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    Roman Mesopotamia and Ottoman Iraq

    The Ottomans and Persians went back and forth over Iraq for centuries too, it was only the crushing defeat of the Safavids in 1639 that a 150 year-ish peace occured, though border disputes still happened. After that the Safavids were never really able to get back to a position of strength to...
  11. Cryostorm

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Yep, even the most egalitarian government and franchises of the period, and a couple centuries later, had wealth or property requirements.
  12. Cryostorm

    Would the Jin conquer the Southern Song if the Mongol Empire never existed?

    There's a good argument that without the Mongol/Yuan invasion and subsequent unification we might have not seen a united China, at least not for several more centuries. The Ming didn't do any real conquering themselves and were more a rebellion of the native Han aristocracy to remove the Yuan...
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    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    It did mention that they are chosen via lottery from the tax rolls, with a certain number per tax level. As for who in the council brings things to the emperor or empress, each member likely can bring things up individually, though having multiple supporters likely helps.
  14. Cryostorm

    Crusader Kings III

    Yep, really looking forward to seeing how they handle landless characters and how a dynasty down on its luck can once more rise, though maybe far from their homelands. Only other thing I would really want after that is a halfway decent trade & economy system.
  15. Cryostorm

    WI: Spain the last Catholic state in Europe

    They did a decent showing of one during the Thirty Years War. A general move to Protestantism could be the driver for early Pan-Germanism, the same way the Time of Troubles did a lot to merge Orthodox Christianity with early Russian nationalism. Hells, wouldn't even be the first time the HRE...
  16. Cryostorm

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    That depends, we don't really know what all is going on out west with Spain, Arles, Triunes, HRE, EAN, and Marinids, or the more minor powers. But considering they have all been relatively quiet as this all going on something tells me that they might be dealing with their own issues, at least...
  17. Cryostorm

    And All Nations Shall Gather To It - Volume I: The Abode of Peace

    It would essentially be a return to normal really, up until the Christian/Muslim split the entire Mediterranean basin was essentially just part, really more of the center, of what we consider Europe today. This tl just makes the split last only ~400 years rather than 1,000+.
  18. Cryostorm

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    Almost makes this funnier, even after two thousand years the guy is still naming cities after himself. Not to mention that Persia can claim a bit of Alexander's legacy themselves so this is just a gentle in-joke and a reminder that for all that Rome and Persia are separated by their shared...
  19. Cryostorm

    What did the US plan for Korea before the Korean war broke out?

    It does make you wonder how the Cold War, particularly the East Asian front, would have gone if NK had held off for even another five or ten years.
  20. Cryostorm

    An Age of Miracles III: The Romans Endure

    That would probably be for the best actually, a lot of monarchies had special flags for when people of importance were in residence, particularly the ruler and their heir. Not like it would change the cost much either since those flags were usually made of upgraded materials anyways. Bonus...
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