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  1. Rdformed Germanic paganism

    More fitting for urbanized life with commerce and advanced social structures. Germanic paganism was a post Neolithic religion of subsistence farmers and concerned itself with issues such communities. Pre Axial Age religions all had to either reform or become extinct.

  2. How much power can the Pope gain?

    No. I am on a phone that has spelling correction in Polish and an awkward keyboard that I am not used to. Plus its tiring to write long messages on It.

  3. How much power can the Pope gain?

    The contentious title is no konger prezent though...

  4. How much power can the Pope gain?

    I may change It if its possible. I originally wanted to write Pope but wrote Poope (my PC refuses to cooperate and I am on a phone) and decided to change It to poop as for comedic reasons. Didnt the Papacy actually have a hand in preventing unification of HRE by supporting German nobles? May a...

  5. Rdformed Germanic paganism

    How might Germanic paganism look like if It reformed itself as an Axial Age religion?

  6. How much power can the Pope gain?

    It does not have to be an actual Papal Empire. IOTL Europe had monarchs, nobles, townsfolk and clergy all competing for power and not able to truły defeat each other. The challenge is to make Catholic clergy THE dominant power in Europe, something in between Brahmins and Confucian scholars in...

  7. AHC/WI: More sinicized countries

    What if Temujin (Genghis Khan) is born in the aforementioned Kara Khitan tribe and not as a Mongoł?

  8. How much power can the Pope gain?

    Yes It was intentional. I waited for someone to notice that I imagine Europe to look like China with the Pope as equal to the Emperor and the ruling class of clergymen officials appointed by the Pope with national States being like the HRE or Indian States, weak and constanty changing.

  9. How much power can the Pope gain?

    In the Middle Ages the Papacy actually wielded significant temporal power but faced w backladh from secular power and its power stopped growing. Could the power of the Papacy keep growing to such an extent that the Catholic clergy becomes THE dominant political force in Europe and either makes...

  10. WI: Ahmed Ibn Hanbal becomes a rationalist

    IOTL Ibn Hanbal became a staunch orthodox Sunni. What if the Sunni orthodoxy simply did not resonate with him over the the course of his education and he became a Mutazilite instead? He would become an equivalent of Thomas Aquinas

  11. AHC: China-like india

    With a PoD in Antiquity, make India develop civilizationally in a China-like manner, with a large, stable, empire before 0 AD, a bureaucraf-official class and a dominancae of unity over disunity.

  12. WI: COVID 19 as deadly as Black Death

    Ok. Własny awarie of this

  13. WI: COVID 19 as deadly as Black Death

    What happens f the current epidemic was as lethal as the Black Death?

  14. AHC: a Gallo Italic Itsly

    With a PoD after 1000 AD make a Gallo Italic language the official language in Italy instead of It being Tuscan

  15. WI; Martin Luther King not killed

    What if he wasn't murdered? Assume as of 2020 he is still alive. Would African Americans be better off/

  16. DBWI; Britain a world empire?

    IOTL Spain became an uncontested colonial power in control of both Americas after the Spanish devastated and conquered England and later Ireland. Could England become a colonial power? It had a rather small population for it's size and it would have to compete with Spain and France. It sounds...

  17. WI: Jewish instead of Christian Europe

    Maybe a starting point would be to have a different preacher other than Jesus. Or have Paul of Tarsus (or his equivalent) that is much less rooted in the Greco-Roman and more in the conservative Jewish tradition. Such a religion generally would not consider it's founder to be God and it's holy...

  18. WI: Jewish instead of Christian Europe

    For some reason Christianity never rises and the main religion of Europe becomes some preachy brand of Judaism at the same time as IOTl (4th century) Obviously there is no Catholic Church. Rather, there is a network of synagogues and yeshivas teaching the Torah in Hebrew in the Western Roman...

  19. What would a Islamic United States look like with most Muslims?

    The two groups that were instrumental in shaping the US as it is were the Puritans and the Quakers. If Islamic America becomes a dumping ground for religious minorities (Christians, Jews, Alawis, Druzes etc) then it may develop in a way somewhat similar to modern day US except it's language...

  20. WI: Paper and printing press invented in the Roman Empire?

    Would then a mass of disgruntled slaves and plebeians form as more poor people are able to read?
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