Our Classical Heritage.
-POD: No Roman Empire. No Christianism.
-Politically: We may see much more sovereign entities diversity: many tiny kingdoms, bigger countries will be Republics (Rome, Carthage...), the city-state model widely applied in the West, traditional empires in the East... and maybe private sovereign entities BEIC-like.
Along time, maybe we will see HRE-like things for most nations (Council of the German People, Roundtable of the Britannic Governorship, High Assembly of Hellas) which slowly federalize to nation-states republics (but ceremonially keeping kingdoms).
There would be some Barbarians plundering and invasions, but they won't make collapse the Mediterranean civilizations. Of course, all of this requires a less aggressive Rome against other Mediterranean countries, but still militaristic enough to defend itself against Barbarians.
I don't think that anything like Communism will be a thing ITTL, rather Agrarism. But there would be totalitarism, that's for sure (remember Plato's Republic).
-Culturally: Classical culture will still be the center of Western culture because of the lack of Judeo-Christian cultural interference in Europe. Rome, Greece and Egypt will culturally be like China: they will have a centuries-old Classical heritage to preserve.
Greek alphabet will be much more used, especially in the Middle East, because of Alexandria.
-Religiously: Philosophies as ways of life will be the standard all across Eurasia, just like it is in OTL East Asia and like it was in OTL Ancient Greece. New religions which pop up will be hanging around Middle East, but they won't be that powerful.
-Economically: Free trade will be the standard in a higher level than TTL. The Mediterranean Basin will be the center of the West in a heavier way than IOTL, until some Atlantic-based people or country discover America, of course.
Personal feelings:
-I can't imagine how this world would be like when gunpowder arrives and how would look like TTL Charlemagne (the leader who organizes European barbarian peoples).
-I am fascinated with the idea that TTL allows Ptolemaic Egypt to last much more time.
-I must confess that this is an attempt to get a Westeros-like Classical Mediterranean Basin.
-POD: No Roman Empire. No Christianism.
-Politically: We may see much more sovereign entities diversity: many tiny kingdoms, bigger countries will be Republics (Rome, Carthage...), the city-state model widely applied in the West, traditional empires in the East... and maybe private sovereign entities BEIC-like.
Along time, maybe we will see HRE-like things for most nations (Council of the German People, Roundtable of the Britannic Governorship, High Assembly of Hellas) which slowly federalize to nation-states republics (but ceremonially keeping kingdoms).
There would be some Barbarians plundering and invasions, but they won't make collapse the Mediterranean civilizations. Of course, all of this requires a less aggressive Rome against other Mediterranean countries, but still militaristic enough to defend itself against Barbarians.
I don't think that anything like Communism will be a thing ITTL, rather Agrarism. But there would be totalitarism, that's for sure (remember Plato's Republic).
-Culturally: Classical culture will still be the center of Western culture because of the lack of Judeo-Christian cultural interference in Europe. Rome, Greece and Egypt will culturally be like China: they will have a centuries-old Classical heritage to preserve.
Greek alphabet will be much more used, especially in the Middle East, because of Alexandria.
-Religiously: Philosophies as ways of life will be the standard all across Eurasia, just like it is in OTL East Asia and like it was in OTL Ancient Greece. New religions which pop up will be hanging around Middle East, but they won't be that powerful.
-Economically: Free trade will be the standard in a higher level than TTL. The Mediterranean Basin will be the center of the West in a heavier way than IOTL, until some Atlantic-based people or country discover America, of course.
Personal feelings:
-I can't imagine how this world would be like when gunpowder arrives and how would look like TTL Charlemagne (the leader who organizes European barbarian peoples).
-I am fascinated with the idea that TTL allows Ptolemaic Egypt to last much more time.
-I must confess that this is an attempt to get a Westeros-like Classical Mediterranean Basin.
Last edited:
