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  1. Were the Spartans the only Greeks against eternal life?

    Well, that's partially true. The ancient Hebrew (and modern Jewish) concept of Sheol was quite similar to the original Greek conception of the afterlife (Hades). But the concept of the Elysian Fields goes back at least to the time of Homer and Hesiod, which are about as "mainstream" as it gets...

  2. Were the Spartans the only Greeks against eternal life?

    It was also a large part of what, in the end, destroyed them. Because when they did lose, it was a major disaster for the Spartan state and the numbers of the citizen class took a long time to recover. Eventually the disasters happened frequently enough that the citizen class didn't recover...

  3. CSA Pacific Ports?

    There was a scenario which could have led to the CSA having Pacific Ports (or at least one on the Gulf of Cortez) without having to invade Mexico or buy land from Mexico to get them. In 1861-62 the governors of several northern Mexican provinces, including Nuevo Leon, Chihuahua, and Sonora...

  4. Cato's Cavalry

    I don't post here often, but Cymraeg, I just want to say, excellent work, and keep it coming. :)

  5. AHC: Reverse Trojan War

    The big problem is that the Hittites were constantly meddling in western Anatolia and every time a local power began to rise there which could have possibly become involved in Aegean power politics, the Hittites would come and smash them, sack a few of their towns or force them to pay a heavy...

  6. Why does AH.com seem to hate the idea of a Turkish Constantinople?

    That's why the whole concept of a cliche is itself a tired cliche and should be retired.

  7. Why does AH.com seem to hate the idea of a Turkish Constantinople?

    A concept that a surprising amount of people on this board just don't quite grasp.

  8. No Bayonets?

    Indeed, one of the competing "origin stories" of the bayonet says that's exactly how they were created. A 17th century militia unit from Bayonne, France was in pursuit of some outlaws and ran out of powder. Rather than give up the pursuit, they stuck the hilts of their daggers down the barrels...

  9. Syagrius Wins; Dimmer Dark Age?

    It might be interesting if the surviving Syagrius can cooperate in some manner with the British leader who was victorious at the Battle of Badon Hill (most likely dating, sometime between 490 and 500 AD), either Ambrosius Aurelianus or Arthur, as the case may be. The Britons apparently rolled...

  10. Deganawatha (Haudenosaunee Imperium restart)

    Let me quote from your introduction. You introduce a character who makes a big show about a tomahawk as if it is something the other Iroquois have never seen before, and then says "if we can learn of these weapons, we'll be safe from our enemies." If you are aware they already knew about and...

  11. A Confederate Navy after independence?

    Actually, the Confederacy would have had plenty of money for a navy at least as large as that maintained by the antebellum United States. Confederate revenues from the 12.5 percent tariff which was proposed by Secretary of the Treasury Memminger in 1861 were estimated to be $25,000,000...

  12. Nero killed during the burning of Rome

    ROFLMAO. One of the great historians of antiquity...and writer of the earliest surviving almost complete biography of Nero...accused of being revisionist. Classic. :D

  13. Deganawatha (Haudenosaunee Imperium restart)

    One big issue...the Iroquois had already been in contact with the French for nearly two centuries, and the English and Dutch for nearly a century prior to this date. Indeed, they had just recently been involved in King William's War and Queen Anne's War as allies of the English. They would...

  14. Jesus Lives

    Yes, the whole "Jesus never existed because he's not mentioned until the 2nd century" argument is pretty ridiculous. When one considers that Nero was persecuting Christians in Rome in 64 AD, only about 30 or so years after Jesus was crucified, it's pretty clear that Jesus is not an invention of...

  15. Catherine of Aragon dies in 1502

    Catherine of Aragon was all those things, and it didn't save her. All that will matter is...can she produce a healthy male heir? However, on the admittedly limited evidence (her three year marriage to Manuel I of Portugal), she appears to have been no better at producing healthy children than...

  16. Catherine of Aragon dies in 1502

    Catherine of Aragon, Princess of Wales, wife of the 15 year old Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, was with him at Ludlow Castle when the young prince mysteriously died. She also became ill at that same time, but recovered. But what if she had not? In OTL, she went on to marry Arthur's brother...

  17. The Root Cause of the Confederacy's Defeat Was...

    Ah, yes. Let's fall back on the old standby, the ad hominem attack on the author of the book I cited, slandering a well-respected academic in the process. Well, given you've proven that you're not above source-editing if you think you can score a rhetorical point off it, I see no reason why...

  18. The Root Cause of the Confederacy's Defeat Was...

    Interesting. I'd always heard the number was actually about 180,000. You always amaze me with all these new facts you come up with. Tell me, in what archive did you find them? Is it round, kind of smelly, and situated where the sun never shines? :p Well, if that's the case, it's...

  19. The Root Cause of the Confederacy's Defeat Was...

    That's a myth. The Confederacy actually devoted very little of its manpower to holding down the slave population during the war, and those that were used tended to be old men beyond military age and boys too young to make effective soldiers anyway. EDIT: The whole "the Confederates lived in...

  20. WI Neo-Assyrian Empire Survives (a little longer)

    Agreed, or maybe even a little bit into the 5th century. Quite possible. Well, the Cimmerians were pretty much a spent force by this time. They were more of a major force in the 8th and early 7th centuries, when they destroyed Phrygia and almost destroyed Urartu. But the Lydians, with...
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