How could the Duchy of Athens conquered Europe?

The Duchy of Athens might be my favorite Crusader state (as far as one could even have a favorite Crusader state, I guess). The idea of a Catholic empire ruling over Greece is pretty intriguing. I could even see them becoming Protestant later.

Is it possible, and if so, how, that Athens, the great city of democracy and philosophy, could become an Empire?

edit: And yes, it should be "conquer" in the title, not "conquered".
 
It actually was in EU4, but I had to create it. It managed to conquer Greece+Turkey. I was running a spectator game, and might have buffed it a bit... it's actually quite an interesting save. Inca basically became the Spanish Empire, Qi took over China and most of India, and Kongo was an African+Middle East superpower.

But seriously, imagine Athenian ideas spreading through the world, becoming influential. The world would be totally different, right??? :)
 
So many centuries had passed by the time of the establishment of the Duchy of Athens, that it would have had no more connection to Classical Greek ideas than any other state in the Mediterranean region.

An empire founded by the Duchy of Athens would be more similar to other crusader states than to any ancient Greek polity. Unless by random chance somebody like Plethon, a neoclassicist scholar in the late Byzantine Empire, arose and had immense cultural influence over the state.
 
1. The Duchy of Athens inherits a surviving Latin Empire
2. The Pope decides to finance an Anatolian Crusade, for some reason, with the conquered lands given to the LE
3. ???
4. YUROPEAN DOMINATION
 
So many centuries had passed by the time of the establishment of the Duchy of Athens, that it would have had no more connection to Classical Greek ideas than any other state in the Mediterranean region.

An empire founded by the Duchy of Athens would be more similar to other crusader states than to any ancient Greek polity. Unless by random chance somebody like Plethon, a neoclassicist scholar in the late Byzantine Empire, arose and had immense cultural influence over the state.

I tend to agree with that. If anything, it would more of an impact on Greek society itself, rather than on Western Europe.
 
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