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On eastern shores – A Roman Timeline A reboot of Optimus Princeps ===== The timelines that I've done (or better: that I've aborted) so far were all centered around ancient Rome. My first one dealt with Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, my second one with the emperor Trajan, my third one with a...

Your challenge, if you accept it, is to have at least five completely westernised countries (excluding Japan) in Asia by year 1900. They must have modern administration, military and must be industrialised at least to Japan's level by 1900. Rules: 1) They should be fully sovereign I.e. not...

What would be the most likely time for a Persian Empire (Mesopotamia + Persian plateau) with a Christian (Nestorian?) ruler class to emerge? From what I understand, in Sassanian Persia, Christianity was beginning to spread so that almost all of Mesopotamia (where Ctesiphon itself, seat of the...

Achaemenid Triumphant an Alternative History of the Mediterranean World Part 1.01 The Flight From Salamis As the Battle of Thermopylae raged on into its third week of battle, the Allied Greek Armada under Eurybiades was slowly being eroded by the composite fleet of Phoenicians and Ionians...

Sorry I'm posting so frequently I have a lot of ideas and questions in my head about Alternate History. So, how could the Sassanid Empire hold off against the Rashidun Caliphate? Is it even possible? Is there anyway that in our modern world we could see a Zoroastrian Persia instead of an...

What if at the end of WW1 the Ottoman Empire completely collapsed including Anatolia, and Persia decides to annex the Middle Eastern territories excluding Anatolia, which is annexed by Greece which renames itself Byzantium. What happens over the next 98 years?

During the existence of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, they were not seen as separate states. They were one Roman Empire, the two halves only governed by two emperors out of political expediency. That and the Eastern Emperor just did not want to bother with the less valuable West. If...