Possibility checks/questions for my timeline

it kinda is although only shortly berber tribes united, to conquer the fertigle europe, but their "reign" was short lived. their empire also collapsed. many berbers however never returned and settled in europe.
 
i wonder how rich the country(red one) would be in resources.
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Coming a bit late ;)

a few remarks/questions

North Africa should be able to sustain a larger population becuase IIRC the Tunisian region yielded quite a grain surplus (believe the desert grew later).

So an Empire (too soon for Vandals i assume) should be possible. Depending on how Rome disintegrated in your TL, North Africa should be a good place for a new dynasty. - Maybe Egypt is used as a shield against the east and as resource for foodstuff.

What about adding Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and the Baleares to the NA Empire?

The Red country? - hard to say Resources it should have (salt, iron ore, coal) enough and it would certainly be a trade hub (sitting in the middle of Europe). But I fear it would be constantly at war with one or more of the neighbours - if its strong it will want to expand, if weak it will be besieged and its border provinces will be nibbled away.
 
I thought of the greeks as the succesors of the roman empire.
The Northern Africans are thought of a short reigned threat, who invade Europe, but finally their empire breaks apart.
The red country (not sure about the name yet) wasnt always this big, it quite expanded actually. and started out from Noricum.
 
I thought of the greeks as the succesors of the roman empire.
The Northern Africans are thought of a short reigned threat, who invade Europe, but finally their empire breaks apart.
The red country (not sure about the name yet) wasnt always this big, it quite expanded actually. and started out from Noricum.

If you include parts of Egypt and Cyrencenia in the North African kingdom then a Kingdom of Kush or later Blemmyes could expand as the Arabs did half a millenia later. Both fought against the romans with some success so they were not a negligible military force.
 
there should be a invasion of berber tribes in Europe in this timeline though. so the empire should probably be not too strong or too wealthy, they should be more forced to move to europe, maybe because of a drought. Not sure how much the Persian empire is going to expand, eastern north africa (egypt some parts of libya) should have Zoroastranism as religion. The rest is christian.
 
Question, the first snowflakes where here a few days ago, and i wondered would there be a christmas tree in that timeline ? i am not sure if it was a germanic custom, a celtic custom or maybe more cultures had the custom of decorating trees on winter solstice ? The Noricans however will have quite influences, one of the first states to adopt christianity as religon aswell. so maybe their customs will get adopted. not sure if the noricans decorated trees on winter solstice though.
 
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I believe Christmas trees cam much much later - but a similar custom could have developed (green flowering plants in winter were a strong symbol even in roman times)
 
ok, so it could potentially develop in this timeline at some point of time.
another questrion, would the celts eb even able to form their own empires, noricum showed that celts can found their kingdoms, but would they be strong enough to defeat the germanics ?
 
would the Noricans be able to found a power successor empire of the Roman ? Remember its a 100 AD POD, Italy gets divied, the north gets conquered by the Noricans, the south by the Greeks.

reasons why i think this could be possible:
1. Norican celts were out of all celts the best smiths, they had good steel, which can help them in conquering territories which are rather backwards.
2. they were more advanced or civilized than other celts, they used armor, while other celts tend to fight without armor.
3. if you look at how big Noricum was before it got incorporated in the roman empire, it seems like they were a dominating force in central europe.
4. Since noricum gets threated by dacians in the east and germanic people in the north, this pressure could make them abolishing the traditional tribal lifestyle (which was not as strong in Noricum as in Gallia, unlike the gauls, the noricans managed to actually make their own kingdom) and create a civilization like Rome did.

so there would be two big powers, the Greeks and the Noricans.
 
would it be possible that the greeks adopt the latin alphabet ? or writing system ?
:confused:Why on earth would they dump a writing system that was developed for their own language and pick up a different one that was modified away from theirs to suit the needs of a rather different language? That would be like the US adopting Cyrillic, basically.
 
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