byzantine empire

I noticed that this was a possibility raised in this thread, but I thought the topic deserved a thread of its own. Assuming Joan of Arc does avoid her capture, trial, and execution... well, I'll just quote @RogueTraderEnthusiast : Well, could Joan have effectively organized a Crusade to save...

In a scenario where Islam never existed (let's say Muhammad dies before he founds Islam), what becomes of the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire and Sassanian Persia? How do the two empires develop without Islam? What's the "life expectancy" for the Sassanids without Islam arising?

Sorry for double posting but i meant this to be posted in pre 1900, please delete the one in post 1900 as it obviously deal with a medieval/early modern technology. For an empire ruling from Byzantium, what territories can be held long-term and economically integrated into the state? This...

The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem changed dynasties more times between it's establishment and fall (1099 and 1291) than most European states did in the same time. In part, this was due to the near-constant female successions: in those 200 years, Jerusalem had five queens-regnant (Melissende...

This is a continuation of a small discussion on the Reverse the Fates of Rome and China thread. For background: What if: The Caliphate failed to conquer Persia or Mesopotamia; focusing the energies of Islamic armies and Arab settlement to the extant or former areas of the Roman Empire. The...

Chapter 1: The Spark of Revolution The Ottoman Empire, 1801 On the 22nd of February 1821, the Phanariot Alexander Ypsilantis crossed the Pruth River into the Danubian Principality of Moldavia and in doing so sparked an open revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Across all of Rumelia, Greeks rose...

Zeno (425-491 AD, reigned from 474) was an emperor of the eastern half of the Roman Empire. His reign was notable for being contemporaneous with the fall of the Western Roman Empire to Odoacer and with a significant monophysite controversy, which he resolved through the promulgation of an act of...

The Isaurian dynasty ruled from 717 AD until 802 AD, and was responsible for the most intense age of iconoclasm power and also for stopping the Caliphate conquests, while losing most of Italy and the conflicts with the west after Karolus Magnus was crowned Emperor of the Franks First the AHC...

Since rhomans tend to fall back on their heartland in Anatolia, from which they always subsequently recower, what can put their statehood to an end?

What if byzantine emperor Theophilos had not died at the age of 28 in 842? Could iconoclasm continue? Could his religious policies cause an earlier east-west schism? And what are the effects of the absence of the macedonian dynasty?

What if instead of Muhammad uniting the Arab tribes under the banner of Islam in the 7th century (let's say Muhammad dies a sickly infant), a Genghis Khan/Temujin-esque figure had united the Arab tribes under his banner and launched a campaign of expansion against the weakened Byzantine and...

I know that this is something of a blasphemous question given how many Byzantophiles there are on this forum, but how early could the Byzantines/ERE have been destroyed?

Leo IV, The Khazar, was a byzantine emperor with good relations to the roman papacy. However, his untimely death led to the ascension of his wife Irene to the throne. Pope Leo III refused to acknowlege a woman as the despot of Rome and decided to crown Charlemagne as roman emperor instead...

What if the notable badass Krum of Bulgaria had either not managed to unify the bulgarian tribes under his own rule or been defeated at the Battle of Pliska? In short, what if the pain-in-the-ass to the Byzantine Empire that was the First Bulgarian Empire had been conquered two hundred years...