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Ok, well I have some ideas for religious reform in the Eastern Roman Empire (to be called the Roman Empire from now on because its shorter) but it will definitely be a messy, imperfect, and difficult process
 
Ok, well I have some ideas for religious reform in the Eastern Roman Empire (to be called the Roman Empire from now on because its shorter) but it will definitely be a messy, imperfect, and difficult process

Sounds good to me. The Armenians managed to deal with the fact the Romans were all weird fairly well, so if Syria and Egypt get back to peace and prosperity and low(er) taxes, there are possibilities.

Looking forward to seeing how those are addressed, as well as Persia's issues. This is a time in which both empires will be very, very strained even without the Arabs...but they've faced troubles before, and if they survive, will again. :D
 
Re. Creeds.
Thee council of nicea in 325 produced the nicean creed, look up said council. The council was called to deal with arianism, and the results were accepted by every traddiitton that survived. So both those creeds should be fine.
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Pm floc for mmore info as he is monophysite (miaphysite). Iirc, the split happens at the coouncciill of chalcedon, rather later.

The arians, liike modern JWs, believe jesus is not god. Monophysites and duophysites disagree on the precise relation of the persons of GOD.
 
thanks for the help I really appreciate it, having help with research makes the writing much easier. I think I understand the basic differences I am Roman Catholic myself so I at least know nearly all of one side (don't worry about me making a Catholic church where everyone gets together, magically agrees, and remains one church, I know enough about history to know that won't happen)
 
Sorry for the lateness and shortness of this update but Real Life (School and Football) interfered with plans to write more on this. Hope you guys like it!

In the year 637 Heraclius has completely pushed back the Arab invasion and re-established Roman control in the Palestine region. There are large domestic pressures in the regions conquered or seriously threatend by the Arabs. Among the biggest voices of discontent is Cyrus of Alexandria who is calling for greater autonomy for Egypt and monophysites. Because of this Heraclius lowers taxes and promises religious reform. There will be an ecumenical council for the Church in 639 at Antioch one of the founding centers of Christianity and the goal of the council will be to solve the differences between monophysite and duophysite churches. (Heraclius is intrested in a political solution to help ease religious tension more than genuine agreement) The emporer assigns Cyrus to organize the meeting to keep him out of his hair for the time being. Heraclius is mainly trying to stabilize his empire and provide for his son's peaceful ascension to the throne. All events in the Balkans proceed without major butterflies.

In the Persian Empire Shah Rostam is setting to work shoring up his power. Rostam declares Zorastarianism the official religion of the Farrok dynasty and sets about building up a bureacracy of religous loyal Zorastrian Persians to run the empire. The Shah has absolute control over Armenia (the locality he is from and ruled before becoming Shah) Mesopatamia (which he recently liberated) and Ctesiphon (which he conquered in the coup). Using the Western part of the Empire as his power base (and with a secure and peaceful border with Rome) Rostam slowly extend his power eastern. Although this will be a lengthy process and he will not completely finish it, the Farrok Dynasty will replace the Sassanids.
 
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Small update is better than no update. Some questions.

Heraclius is cutting taxes on Egypt. Okay. How well is the empire doing at handling its expenses? Can he afford to do this, or is it trying to keep the situation stable in Egypt even if that means raising taxes (and the inevitable unhappy response) somewhere else?

In the Persian Empire Shah Rostam is setting to work shoring up his power. Rostam declares Zorastarianism the official religion of the Farrok dynasty and sets about building up a bureacracy of religous loyal Zorastrian Persians to run the empire. The Shah has absolute control over Armenia (the locality he is from and ruled before becoming Shah) Mesopatamia (which he recently liberated) and Ctesiphon (which he conquered in the coup). Using the eastern part of the Empire as his power base (and with a secure and peaceful border with Rome) Rostam slowly extend his power westward. Although this will be a lengthy process and he will not completely finish it, the Farrok Dynasty will replace the Sassanids.
Given the Roman-Iranian tradition of fighting over Armenia, what part of Armenia is within his control?

I presume this part (underlined) means that it won't be finished within his lifetime, but the Farrokids prevail in that of his successor.

And this may seem petty, but...

If he has absolute control over Armenia and Mesopotamia (Ctesiphon is within Mesopotamia if I'm not mistaken), doesn't that mean he controls the empire's western regions, and is extending east?
 
If he has absolute control over Armenia and Mesopotamia (Ctesiphon is within Mesopotamia if I'm not mistaken), doesn't that mean he controls the empire's western regions, and is extending east?

I am very glad to have someone notice stupid mistakes like that :eek: I will fix that now

Heraclius is cutting taxes in the regions that are monophysite to lower discontent and his idea is that fewer taxes is better than more taxes and a rebellion

Rostam and his family are from Armenia so he controls or has the suppourt of all of Persian Armenia (which doesn't exactly answer your question but its all I can do right now)

thanks for reading
and your comments are always appreciated :D!
 
I am very glad to have someone notice stupid mistakes like that :eek: I will fix that now

Heraclius is cutting taxes in the regions that are monophysite to lower discontent and his idea is that fewer taxes is better than more taxes and a rebellion

Makes sense. Hope it doesn't hurt the treasury too much.

Better than them rebelling in that regard, but...being emperor is not fun or easy.

Rostam and his family are from Armenia so he controls or has the suppourt of all of Persian Armenia (which doesn't exactly answer your question but its all I can do right now)

thanks for reading
and your comments are always appreciated :D!

Ah, gotcha. Let's see, where's a map...

http://rbedrosian.com/Maps/maps.html
http://rbedrosian.com/Maps/muhamm7a.htm
http://rbedrosian.com/Maps/er57.htm - unfortunately I can't read this one.

So presumably somewhere around Lake Van and that area?
 
The Shah's campaign to unify the empire was proceeding well although not quickly. Rostam had more or less organized the goverment in Media and along the coastal regions. Most of the regions to the north-east were unstable and violent. The frontier of the empire will gradually push on with areas futher from the frontier becoming more stable. While on campaign against a former vassal in 640 AD in southern Pathia, Rostam was killed, leaving his heir in command of the empire. Shah Khosrau III was crowned in the ancient city of Perspolis showing the Farrok Dynasty's ties to Persian history and culture. For the third time a great conquer had been named Khosrau, however this time he would conquer lands in the East, not in the West.

short update but I got a little bit of time to write so I decided to Post what I had
 
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