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  1. Greek attitudes to Rome from Pre Macedonian wars to conquest of Greece and Selucids?

    I've recently been reading up on my Second Macedonian wars up until the fall of the Seleucid empire, and how Rome was able to dominate and absorb the numerous Hellenic Kingdoms and leagues. The question I've been wondering is exactly how the notoriously snooty Greeks reacted to Rome prior to...

  2. Coursework help: what caused the Italian Renaissance+ other questions?

    I am currently starting my extended project which ( after switching between the south sea bubble, King John and the Punic wars) I settled on one of my favorite periods; late 14th century Italy and the Condottieri mercenary bands like Sir John Hawkwood. In particular, my EPQ postulates on a...

  3. Richard of York Executed at Dartford in 1452

    Of all the PODs of the war of the roses, this one has, to me, been one of more interesting. In 1452, after successfully eliminating his rival the duke of Suffolk, Richard, Duke of york, rose up in rebellion in order to "clear the realm of bad governance." In truth, it was an attempt to eliminate...

  4. WI: Kingmaker victorious at the battle of Barnet 1471

    One of more forgotten battles of the Cousins ( or war of the roses)- despite being close to London and, more significantly, the site of the earl of Warwick Richard Nevilles, the Kingmakers death. In a plot almost out of game of thrones, The earl of Warwick had helped the early of Marsh ( future...

  5. WI:Pyrrhus of Epirus not killed at Argos/victory at Sparta

    Pyrrhus of Epirus was, while almost certainly not a "great" king in terms of stability and good governance, was certainly one of the greatest-if not the greatest-of the Diodotchi kings that succeeded Alexander the great. Even after his eventual defeat by Rome ( and some would even argue that...

  6. A Brave new world: dinosaurs not quite wiped out (V2)

    For all those who didn't follow my old TL, A brave new world is a TL that follows the rise of the Troodontidae and their decedents, a species of birdlike Therapod dinosaurs that, unlike, OTL, survive the K-Pg extinction event and continues to evolve into Paleogene and into modern day. In it, I...

  7. WI: Roman defeat at the battle of Sentinum 295 BC

    The battle of Sentinum that took place during the 3rd Samnite war was a pivotal battle in the history of the early republic in that it basically eliminated the last major threat to Roman expansion in Italy itself and made Rome the dominant power on the Italian peninsular-breaking the power of...

  8. WI: Sextus Pompey defeats Octavian in Sicily

    Whenever I see Roman TL's based around the time of Caesar and the wars of the second triumvirate, i see that a certain larger then life character is sadly missing-Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, the youngest son of Pompey of the great, who, having seen his father murdered in Egypt, devoted his...

  9. No Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction event: No Dinosaur dominance?

    This idea was inspired by a recent BBC article on the rise of the dinosaurs and the extinction of the large non archosaur reptiles-the formally highly successful Therapsids and the Synapsids. This mass extinction, which took place roughly 201.3 million years ago is, like the more famous K-T...

  10. What if Julius Caesar invaded the kingdom of Dacia under Burebista

    When we think of Dacia, we mainly focus on the massive invasion of the country by Trajan in 108 AD which finally crushed the kingdom which for centuries had been a thorn in Romes side. However, this was by no means the first time the Romans had put designs on Dacia. The first planned...

  11. Best opportunity to overthrow Hitler between 1932-39

    This question has been on my mind recently after reading up on the night of the long knives between 30 June- 2 July 1934, which saw the elimination of the SA as a major power capable of stopping Hitler and either elimination ( including the head the SA Ernst Röhm, Gregor Strasser, former...

  12. Alexander the great fights against the early Roman republic: who would win.

    It's surprising to learn that one of the first pieces of " what if" speculative history was by the Roman writer Livy on the hypothetical outcome of a war between Alexander the great and his army (who decided not to go East but West to Italy) and the forces of the Roman republic at the time...

  13. Why didn't the mongols invade India?

    Inspired by my other thread: about alexander the great continuing his invasion of India: https://www.alternatehistory.com/Discussion/showthread.php?t=253066 This question has perplexed me for some time now-why didn't the mongols, at their height around 1240-1270 AD invade the then disunited...

  14. No Salamis: Themistocles evacuates Athens and begins a new Athens in Italy. what next

    "Obey me instead; but if you don’t do this then we, as we are, will take up the members of our households and we shall betake ourselves to Siris in Italy (the very place which has been ours since antiquity, and even the oracles say that it must be occupied by us); and you, left bereft of such...

  15. Caesar survives the ides of march: what next

    As it says on the tin: what happens next? Caesar was currently planning a war against the empire of Parthia, so if he managed to get it underway, could he possibly win and expand Romes territory into the Euphrates and Tigris? ( given Romes future record on this though, its doubly it would last...

  16. Troodon survives the K-T event: what would the world look like today?

    As many of you know, i'm currently writing my relitivly populer TL: A brave new world: dinosaurs not quite wiped out.... which has a POD of this very idea. Anyway, while i have my own ideas about how evolution would play out, what do YOU think would happen? Would Troodon go hominid and...

  17. Julian the Apostate: The last pagin roman emperor,what if he survived?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_the_Apostate The last non-christian emperor and the last ruling decendent of constantine, Julian tried ( with varying degrees of success) to reverse christianities advane, abolishing christian edicts and restoring pagins to senior offices, as well as...

  18. Ad vindictam deorum: The assasination of Constantine

    Ad vindictam deorum: " The vengence of the Gods" is my latest and, arguably, most ambitious TL to date. How can i say this simply......when you get rid of such and important figure in what is around EVERYWHERE is bound to cause massive butterflies. But this is not just about the overall...

  19. Constantine is dead, milvian bridge lost: what happens to christianity?

    Constantine is, after Christ, the most important man in Christianitys history. Before him, Christianity was a persacuted, reviled personality cult that was a constant scapegoat when things went wrong. Christianity itself was undergoing an idenitiy crisis in the peroid, with full scale conflict...

  20. Romans win battle of teutoburg forest: What is the result.

    The battle of teutoburg forest is undoubtably one of the most decisive battles in history. The tide of relentless roman expansion was curbed in that area, and the romans started going on the defensive- an ultamatly fatal move as i believe that this was what effectivly doomed the empire in the...
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