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  1. Battle of Sirp Sindigi (1364) a Christian Victory

    So in OTL the Battle of Sirp Sindigi was fought between a coalition of Serbs and Hungarians, against the rising Ottoman power in Europe. The Turks won and the flower of the Serbian nobility was killed, to the point where this battle, along with the Battle of Maritsa seven years later, are...

  2. Where In the World Have You Been?

    So here's an idea I just came up with. Take a world map, mark the northernmost, southernmost, easternmost, and westernmost points you've ever been, and crop out the rest of the world along those lines of latitude and longitude. And post here! Those with east-west distances that are lesser...

  3. How to disinherit Charles the Bald

    So, what it says on the tin. Apparently Lothair and Louis the German kicked handed their father Louis the Pious's ass to him plenty of times, but somehow failed to get their younger half-brother Charlie out of the will. Does this have to do with the nobles of the Carolingian realm, or it...

  4. Alternate Battle of Cannae (1018)

    So as many of you probably don't know, in AD 1018 there was another battle of Cannae which pitted the Byzantine Empire's forces (under the greatest Catepan, Basil Boioannes) versus the Lombards of Italy and their Norman mercenaries (under Melus of Bari). IOTL the battle was a smashing defeat...

  5. The Eagle Flies! A Julius Caesar Timeline.

    Ides of Martius, 710 Ab Urbe Condita Marcus Antonius woke that morning thinking of Gaul. Why is that? He sat up, shaking his head. He was one who thought mostly of the present and otherwise of the future; the past was useless to him, except to dig up the face of some useful friend or hated...

  6. WI: Otho Defeats Vitellius

    So in AD69, during the Year of the Four Emperors, Otho killed his superior (and emperor) Galba and assumed power in Rome. Vitellius, commander of the Rhine legions, who had been rebelling for a few months now, marched down into Italy and defeated Otho, who committed suicide afterward, in battle...

  7. No Roman Civil War (the 1st One!)

    What if, when Gaius Marius's request to be the commander against Mithridates in 88BC is denied, he flies into a fit of rage and has a stroke that kills him, instead of getting Tribune Rufus to basically dismantle the government through his vetoes and lawmaking? This action of Marius's part led...

  8. What If Cato Dies In/To/From Cyprus?

    What if Cato the Younger, the most vehement opponent of Julius Caesar, had died in the fighting to take Cyprus, or had died in a shipwreck on the way to or from his command? Preferably I'd like it to be while sailing home, because then the butterflies are minimal. With Caesar away in Gaul...

  9. WI: Carbo Lets Cimbri Go/Cimbri Invade Italy

    In 112 BC, Gnaeus Papirius Carbo led a Roman army into Noricum to aid Rome's allies the Taurisci against the invading Cimbrian (actually a combined force of several German tribes) horde. The Cimbri began to leave peacefully when they fond out that Carbo had set up an ambush, and retaliated...

  10. Can the Norse-Gaels Survive? Can They Dominate?

    So as I see it, the Norse-Gaels, despite having integrated somewhat culturally with the native Irish and Scottish populations, still composed of the ruling class in some parts of Ireland and in most of northern and western Scotland. With the Normans invading England and then influencing the...

  11. What If Hmyelnitzki Fails?

    So I've really been getting into the great novel With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz, and I thought, what if Hmyelnitzki's Uprising fails, or doesn't even get off the ground? This can happen due to a number of reasons. Hmyelnitzki himself, a genius general and leader of men, could...

  12. Alternate Development of Civilization

    So, as I understand it what happened in OTL was that human hunters, due to persistence running and intelligence, were so effective that they could spend just a little time hunting and gathering, and the rest of the day mostly boning (because, what else is there to do?). Then theeir population...

  13. Sailing Aboard the White Ship

    PLEASE DIRECT ALL COMMENTS TO THE DISCUSSION THREAD Discussion thread here. Sailing Aboard the White Ship The Unexpected Disaster The baby's wails and Bert and Rory's shouts and the clack of their rough wooden swords still echoed in Emeny's ears as she shouted "I'm off for bread, too!" over...

  14. William Adelin and the White Ship Arrive Safe

    So I in fact became interested in alternate history only recently--though true history is my forte--after reading Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth and wondering what might have happened had William Adelin, heir to the throne of England, never died in the White Ship disaster in 1120. The...
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