red sea

A rather simple scenario. So, with a PoD after 1000, that is, after Queen Gudit's purported "reign of terror", how can Ethiopia oversee stable enough growth to politically and economically vassalize the tribes of Yemen on the other side of the Red Sea, like Axum had done centuries before? How...

There was no need for locks since the Mediterranean and the Red Sea are level, so if an Emperor like Augustus or Trajan ordered one built and had 20,000 men put to work on it, it would be finished eventually wouldn't it, even if it fell to one of their successors to finish it? This analysis I...