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  1. WI: Venetian Egypt

    Taking more Italian territory will only multiply problems; the Emperor will surely intervene within the Kingdom of Italy until at least the 15th century and although Venice has a certain amount of terra firma recognised by the Empire before then, its certainly not enough to holy Egypt which...

  2. AHC: Democratic Rome

    The Roman Republic's constitution, as it was, existed as a balancing act between aristocratic and popular demands. The renaissance political theorists, like Machiavelli and Guicciardini, argued the mixed constitution was the source of its success as it created effective long term government...

  3. Macchiavelli’s Duke

    The idea that The Prince is a satire shows a complete lack of awareness of any of Machiavelli's other works and really is a tired old rag thrown up by people too enamoured with the modern connotations of the term Machiavellian to actually read his stuff. Machiavelli was a dedicated Republican...

  4. More Expansionist Ming

    Except it imported very little, hence the rise of the opium trade. Britain needed to export something to China because its commerce was leading to a bullion trade in India, as well as inflation in China as enormous amounts of silver entering circulation. China's trade problem was its massive...

  5. More Expansionist Ming

    All this talk about colonising Siberia for gold or woll and what-not is a white elephant. The Chinese never colonised Siberia because they didn't have to; the Grand Canal and the development of the Lower Yangtze regional economy meant that rice, grain, textiles and other consumer goods could be...

  6. AHC/WI: Keep Athens a City-State

    Athens retained a lot of autonomy within the Roman Empire well into the AD period, so it's not infeasible that during the conquest it's made a protectorate of Rome under a pliant oligarchy, a republican system or indeed even a democracy of some sort. If it plays it safe during the Roman...

  7. AHC: Democratic Islamic Movement

    The Tanzimat reforms in the 19th century can be described as both Islamist and democratic. The period saw the Majallah reforms in the Ottoman Empire, where Sharia was codified and the powers of the Caliph as leader of Islam cemented and made key points of state ideology. The period also saw the...

  8. Plausibility check: Roman Exansion into the Sudan/Arabia?

    Thing is though, although in hindsight things like the Indian Ocean spice trade look important but it was of marginal importance for the Roman economy. What really mattered was grain-hence Egypt and North Africa. Yes, it might have made the Caesars a bit of money and made nobles' lives a bit...

  9. The Tudor Rose of England

    No. Just no. Francis I was almost universally hated for military co-operation with the Ottomans, a marriage alliance would be unthinkable. Also: What happened to Thomas Cromwell? If you want to make England more conventionally Protestant during the Henrician reformation you're going to have...

  10. AHC: African colony in Europe

    Fair point, just an idea though. Maybe a few years earlier...

  11. AHC: African colony in Europe

    This is a really weird idea, but let's just go with it... In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the island of Heimay, off Iceland, taking many captives. What if an enterprising corsair established a base on Heimay or even Iceland itself, as a stopping-off point for slaves captured in Scotland...

  12. Map Thread XI

    Cheers. I should note that most of the borders, especially the chartered colonial ones, are statements of legal ownership rather than of actual de jure control. I guess just like in 1914 the French didn't actually control every square inch of the Sahara, but it's still all coloured in blue...

  13. Map Thread XI

    On Second Thoughts, Let's Not... The late 1840s were a gruelling time for the peoples of Europe. The hungry forties saw the spectre of famine visit every corner of the continent from Corke to Lvov. In 1848 the French monarchy fell and the Second French Republic was installed. Little did the...

  14. What would have to happen to tone down Irish nationalism?

    Introduce Catholic Emancipation in 1801 like Pitt wanted. One way to do this would have George III be declared mad at around this time; with George IV as Regent Emancipation might be more politically realistic. It was, after all, George III who refused to countenance Emancipation in his own...

  15. A Fitzroy-Regency Question

    Fitzroy's royal blood was never questioned. hence the duchies, but being made a duke didn't necessarily imply legitimacy. Look at the Beauforts (Exeter) and Edmund Tudor (who wasn't a bastard but was clearly just someone had to be given something for the sake of dignity.) Also Elizabeth and...

  16. A Fitzroy-Regency Question

    I'm sorry but the notion of Fitzroy being legitimised and being inserted into the line of succession just seems absurd. At no point did Henry show any sign of legitimising him, and given his shall we say, fluid, family politics, he could have had he wanted. Henry cared all about prestige and...

  17. Who is the successor to Henry VII if Arthur and Catherine have a daughter

    Those threats weren't imagined at 'Yorkist' though. The Tudors got a great deal of legitimacy through Elizabeth of York-in fact Henry's invasion in 1485 rested on his promise to marry her if he won. The line between Lancastrian and Yorkist is an artificial one created decades after the fact for...

  18. Who is the successor to Henry VII if Arthur and Catherine have a daughter

    Henry VII's not going to disinherit Elizabeth because his own claim to the throne was based on the maternal line-if she's disinherited because she's a girl then that poses a huge problem to Henry's legitimacy-something he was very sensitive about. This notion that there was a 'Yorkist threat'...

  19. Map Thread XI

    Yep. Purple-outlined areas within France are holdings of the House of Burgundy, while solid-coloured are Burgundian possessions outside France.

  20. Map Thread XI

    The Red Rose of Spain. The late 1380s were an awkward time for England. A generational shift was occurring within the kingdom's leadership, as a young king Richard II was seeking to assert his leadership over a fractious nobility whose elder members could still remember the glory days of his...
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