Maybe the normans go all the way and rename the island Normandy to keep the trend goingTrope: There's always Normandy. Or at least very often.
Maybe the normans go all the way and rename the island Normandy to keep the trend goingTrope: There's always Normandy. Or at least very often.
Northern NormandyMaybe the normans go all the way and rename the island Normandy to keep the trend going
Offshore Normandy.Maybe the normans go all the way and rename the island Normandy to keep the trend going
Well thing is that that regardless of who it is or what it was, Americans will not be as critical of militarism and the "military industrial complex" should the US have any nearby existential threat. Not only the CSA, but practically as long as there are powers that could shake up the Monroe doctrine, like a more powerful Brazilian empire of a survivng Spanish empire.To that they have the answer that "well, that only happens in Turtledowe's head but it has nothing to do with what would happen in reality" based on the fact that TL-191 did all that (while insisting that the USA was "the good guy" even if they were the ones launching aggressive wars against their neighbor to the south on average every 20 years)
That one's going to be tougha survivng Spanish empire.
Oh, both. Tougher to pull off thoughTough to pull off or tough to deal with for the US?
Always, always, always there is Christianity.
It doesn't matter the POD. It doesn't matter if the Roman Empire is butterflied away. It doesn't matter if Jews and Judea are butterflied away. Christian and post-Christian secular Westerners writing TLs about the Mediterranean two thousand years ago will always find some way to make something that looks like Christianity appear.
It's baffling.
But if you belong to the 'all moral people go to heaven/moksha/nirvana irrespective of religion (or lack thereof)' school of thinking, then you might not believe that at all. That being said, pagan Europe outside of Roman and Germanic areas can be diifficult to reconstruct.In fairness, if you are religious you might believe in the inevitability of your religion.
In fairness, if you are religious you might believe in the inevitability of your religion.
It doesn't matter what someone believes. It's repetitive, frankly ASB, and indicative of a lack of imagination by the writers who do it.But if you belong to the 'all moral people go to heaven/moksha/nirvana irrespective of religion (or lack thereof)' school of thinking, then you might not believe that at all. That being said, pagan Europe outside of Roman and Germanic areas can be diifficult to reconstruct.
How would you create something unlike Christianity but which serves its purpose?It doesn't matter what someone believes. It's repetitive, frankly ASB, and indicative of a lack of imagination by the writers who do it.
What was the "purpose" of Christianity? Assuming the Roman Empire and it's condition 2k years ago isn't butterflied away (and so your question about "[Christianity's] purpose" carries meaning), perhaps we can say that the purpose of the Empire's adoption of Christianity was "we need a unifying ideology to unite disparate peoples under Romanitas to prevent the Empire from collapsing." Ignoring the fact that Christianity essentially failed in that goal, in that Christianity was perpetually plagued by sectarianism, the empire in the West did collapse, and the Germanic invaders in the West were a competing sect of Christianity, here are a few options:How would you create something unlike Christianity but which serves its purpose?
How exactly Rome could become Buddhist. The another religions I can see, but Buddhism puzzles meWhat was the "purpose" of Christianity? Assuming the Roman Empire and it's condition 2k years ago isn't butterflied away (and so your question about "[Christianity's] purpose" carries meaning), perhaps we can say that the purpose of the Empire's adoption of Christianity was "we need a unifying ideology to unite disparate peoples under Romanitas to prevent the Empire from collapsing." Ignoring the fact that Christianity essentially failed in that goal, in that Christianity was perpetually plagued by sectarianism, the empire in the West did collapse, and the Germanic invaders in the West were a competing sect of Christianity, here are a few options:
- Doubling down on polytheistic syncretism and a "Mandate of Heaven" structure where the Roman military bureaucracy is theologically mirrored by a heavenly host of gods and goddesses under a singular deity (Jupiter or Mars) or the Jupiter-Juno-Minerva triad
- Buddhism
- Judaism
- Sol Invictus, only explicit and not carrying either Pauline baggage about Jews or Jesus' "turn the other cheek" pacificm
- Neoplatonic monism and philosophy
- Any of the other competing mystery cults
- Literally anything else
It could happen.How exactly Rome could become Buddhist. The another religions I can see, but Buddhism puzzles me
Sorry Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth wealth borders or PLC for short.
the PLC fell of its own accord, due to a bizarre form of government and the incompetence of the nobilityPLC despite the many, many plans and territorial ideas for it as a state and the mad scramble for land that occurred following WW1 across Europe.