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  1. How to get a more "original" Roman high culture?

    Unless we say that the Roman Empire post 476 isn't really the Roman Empire, we can't say that the Greeks aren't Romans. Greeks and Romans are not mutually exclusive terms. In fact, if you called Late Romans Hellenes, they would insulted and insisted that they are Rhomaioi, or Romans. And who are...

  2. How to get a more "original" Roman high culture?

    The Romans should make the Greeks Romans, so that the Greek innovations could become Roman innovations by default. And this happened. By 212 AD, all Greeks were Romans, and in due time, all Greeks came to see themselves as Romans. So does it really matter that the culture were once Greek, or...

  3. AHC: Vassal States exist in the Modern World

    By Vassal states, I mean, a country that, by formal treaty, recognized as part of international law. 1. Formally and actually hands control over its foreign relations to an larger country. 2. Gives regular tribute, taxes, or any resources to larger country. 3. The larger country in return...

  4. If a communist revolution were to take place in the United States, what’d be the international and domestic consequences?

    If it were to occur, then it would be easily crushed by the National Guard of state were it starts, or would be crushed by the police or the army. (P.S. You didn't state that the revolution had to be successful).

  5. European colonization of the Americas without the massive indigenous deaths from disease?

    And don't forget it isn't just smallpox. We have measles. Bubonic Plague. Whopping Cough. Malaria. Dipthteria. Influenza. Typhus. Etc. The natives suffered from tons of disease endemic to Europeans. So What if for one disease, it's only say, 40%. So the smallpox plague will reduce a population...

  6. Consequences of a longer lived Louis XIII?

    Plus Louis XIV grows up with a living father. That would change his personality a lot. And yes, there's no Fronde. We would have a different Louis XIV, which would be different from OTL.

  7. Was there any struggles between federalist, farmers and others in the democratic party in the 1870s like in the Republican party in 1850s?

    First of all, Federalists were dead in the 1860s. Had been since the 1820s at the latest. Second, the Republican did fulfill those promises to the farmers.. After all, it did fulfill free soil, by excluding slavery in the territories. And it delivered free land by enacting the Homestead land...

  8. Was there any struggles between federalist, farmers and others in the democratic party in the 1870s like in the Republican party in 1850s?

    First of all, Federalists were dead in the 1860s. Had been since the 1820s at the latest. Second, the Republican did fulfill those promises to the farmers.. After all, it did fulfill free soil, by excluding slavery in the territories. And it delivered free land by enacting the Homestead...

  9. Did Bismarck even want the Second Reich to be founded, or did he just ride events?

    The thing about the Ems Dispatch, was that it wasn't even a lie. Reading it, you can't read anything that didn't actually happened. It's just that Bismarck shortened it to remove the conciliatory parts, but it reflected the reality--that Benedetti asks that William I perpetually promise that he...

  10. What was the most gender-equal period of Western history?

    Since is before 1900, I assume he means before 1900.

  11. Bacon's revolt succeeds

    Why? They don't want to be independent at this stage of the colony. They would never declare independence on their own volition, and they would welcome the first opportunity to go back under the sovereignty of England. Keep in mind that in this time period, most of the white settlers were born...

  12. WI: A surviving Byzantine Empire and its effects on world history

    Why? They can be both Greek and Roman. And Hellenes means pagan, an insult to the Christian Rhomaioi. So I doubt that they'll go back to it. If anything, they'll be the proud bearers of Romanitas and Greekness. Who else can claim to be plausibly both?

  13. WI: A surviving Byzantine Empire and its effects on world history

    Well, we could say that the Roman Empire never fell. And that's a big thing.

  14. Constitutional Convention thwarted- are states more democratic earlier?

    No. There really isn't anything in the Constitution that would prevents states from democratizing earlier.

  15. Constitutional Convention thwarted- are states more democratic earlier?

    No.

  16. Earliest possible united Italy

    Since there are no restrictions... 272 BC, with the surrender of Tarentum. or alternatively 88 BC, with the end of the Social War and the granting of Roman citizenship to all Italians. or 42 BC, when Cisalpine Gaul was merged with Roman Italy.

  17. If Bush Sr. won the GOP nomination in 1980, who would have won the U.S. Presidential Election that year?

    The only reason 1980 was close until the last debate was Reagan's killer image and the fear that he would start a nuclear war. The debate erased that image, and Reagan romped in the election. There would be no such fears with Bush as the nominee. So Carter can't paint him as some extremist who...

  18. Best POD for Brittany to survive as an independent state to modern day?

    When was Brittany ever sovereign? They're always vassals to someone else, always acknowledging some other monarch as their overlords.

  19. DBWI: What If Germany Lost WWII

    If only Britain didn't make peace after the fall of France, maybe the Soviet Union could have beaten the German Army, and maybe the United States would have entered. But Britain made peace, Germany conquered European part of the USSR, and America continued it's isolationism. And I don't think...

  20. Holy Roman Empire In The 19th Century

    Maybe German Nationalism would cause the HRE to morph into a centralized federal state ruled from Vienna (POD, Prussia crippled), with Hungary under a cadet Habsburg branch. So it would be like the OTL German Empire in structure. So it , would butterfly our World War I, because this Germany...
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