So here is a question, does Buddhism get out-competed in India ITTL like it did OTL? What with no Islam to destroy the Monasteries of the Palas and i havent really seen the rise of anything like the Brahmani movement in this thread as of yet? Actually what does the religious makeup of India look...
So Cosmas completely screwed over the reconquest of Spain....i am saddened by this. This just means that the Roman Empire is going to be a different Italy.
As cool as the vengeance idea sounds, it really wasnt. Most of the vikings, especially the ones that invaded and settled lands outside of Scandinavia, were mostly displaced nobles/adventurers that refused to bow the authority of the centralizing kingships of Norway, Sweden or Denmark. Plus at...
>New post.
>Calling all of the pagans to war.
Yknow i have a deep-seated feeling that the viking age will be VERY, VERY different. This pleases me, so more plz.:D
I actually went through and read your TL a bit after you plugged it. I must say it is VERY close to what i had in mind when i originally posted the thread, (well except for destroying the Christians, that was from in game experiences and such.)
However i will say that i disagree with this bit of...
Ok well then. It seems that i have been through proven utterly wrong in all regards. I was apparently laboring under the delusion that there was a point in time far back enough in the Dark Ages that the various pagans of Europe had a "last chance" or a really good chance at driving back the...
Well this does present a problem. How would the pagans go about discrediting the Catholics/Orthodoxy? Hell how would the pagans manage to defeat the Byzantines?
Dammit i didnt even think about that.
This is a lot more along the lines of what i had in mind. The event that got me started thinking about this was a Game of CK2 as the Pagan Saxons at the 769 bookmark. (And yes i know CK2 is not good at representing history or plausible alt history in any real way.) I was wondering if there was a...
Having played several games of CK2 as various pagans when the Charlemagne expansion came out, i have been wondering, "Assuming a POD after the rise of the Christians is there a way for Christianity to fail?"
What i mean by failure is simply this, by the end of the Middle ages, have a...
Actually can i get a description, (a map is probs too much to ask for) of what Norway has lost to the Danes? I cant find it in the thread.
Also great job on the rise and fall of the boom culture Svalbard thule.
After reading that last update, i need to ask this. How much were you influenced by Reds! in the writing of this? When i saw the Franco-British Union bit i actually had to stop reading and make sure i wasn't somehow in the Reds! thread at that moment.
Not saying that i hold you in low regards...