medieval era

POD is that Taika Reform succeeds in centralizing Japan. It takes power away from clan. Their land nationalized and redistributed. Imperial government becomes the sole authority in Japan. The Emperor creates a professional national standing army Tang dynasty in China and Silla dynasty in Korea...

With a PoD of your choosing (though the less early it is, the better), have the lands of Italia and Iberia switch roles in the Medieval era. Spain must be a land divided between various republican city states and small kingdoms who compete against each other and becomes the birthplace of the...

what if a caste system was established in Medieval Europe based on serfs inheriting the curse of ham ? In Medieval Europe, the curse of Ham also became used as a justification for serfdom. Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1100) was the first recorded to propose a caste system associating Ham with...

What if Yamato Japan became a centralized state under their emperor like China where would be their conquests ? A monopoly on East Pacific trade?

Point of departure--the Emperor Justinian declared Buddhism, not Christianity, to be the religion of the state.

Okay, I know the title sounds ASB, but hear me out. By "Soviet Union" here I mean a counterpart, not a ISOT or anything of the sort. Your challenge, if you decide to take it, is to create a pan-slavic state during the period between the fall of Rome and the fall of Constantinople. Said state...

How would Western Europe be changed if the Mongols could conquer it? (This question of whether they could have is asked frequently enough I don't want to ask it again. Personally, I think so if Ogedei Khan didn't die, but it would have been difficult). Would greater connection to the East...

Boluōmitya Dēshe: A Medieval Timeline. *** Chapter 1: The Marriage of a lifetime. 621 AD, Chang’an, Tang Dynasty China. Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, born Li Yuan, and called by many as Shude wasn’t a man for patience. He had been opportunistic when he had toppled the Sui Dynasty, and...

The Kingdom of Germany is in dark blue. You'll notice that it made up the bulk of the holy roman empire. Now, the idea of Germany surviving as a medieval polity and legislature fascinates me. So say Otto I never remarried. and thus never has a claim on Italy to forge the HRE. What does the rest...

Title is weird because I couldn't fit it all in the Title Box. What were some lesser-known alliances, mergers, and unions from Medieval Europe (fall of Rome-French Revolution) that you would liked or have seen survive to the present day?

IOTL, there were some Russian penetrations into Siberia. Some Russians - mainly Cossacks - had dreams of annexing large parts of Siberia, or even conquering the whole of it. Of course, these dreams never came to pass. But suppose they had? What if Russia had been able to take control of Siberia?

What if the two most devastating events in the medieval era, namely the rise of the Mongol empire and the spread of the plague, never happened? How would Eurasia develop without the fear of the Mongol hordes? How do trade, international relations and demography change?

It is impossible for Assyria to rise again after the roman era?

Before I begin, I feel I must explain a few things about myself and where this is all coming from. In order to do so, I have to travel back a good 11 or 12 years (please, bare with me!). It was roughly around that time that I, a High School student with a deep interest in history, and some...