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An intentional way to uproot the local nobility to stop them from causing trouble. That said, it didn’t quite make sense because most European powers were generally lazy and were content for the native elite to serve as collaborators instead of staffing government offices with their own people...

Speaking of the Cretans, are the Cretans of this time still as famed for their archery as their ancestors did in the antiquity?

Take care.

I don’t think so, but there was precedence for a brother in law to inherit, like how Wessex took over Mercia?! That said, if the Wittengamot rubber stamps it, then screw precedence,. After Canute became king though, I don’t think people really cared about precedence.

More like they enforced a lot of Manchu customs on the Chinese like the clothing as well. That’s why when the Taiping Rebellion broke out, the rebels caste away their qipaos in favour of theatre customes(theatre customs were the only lingering Hanfu that remained legal, as well the clothing of...

Border gore in Roman Anatolia.

Welsh.

Name change due to butterflies? Simonis became Adrienne.

Even when there’s no disagreements, people invent disagreements./j

Argh…..Christians doing what Christians do best —come up with new ways to create controversy in the church……over minor things……./j

So @Lascaris has the Catholic Church made any concessions at all when during negotiations with the Lascarid Empire?Even IOTL, they offered promises of help to the ERE instead of just say give us XYZ or we will get armies from the Latin West to invade you. Trying to use force alone against the...

France is too busy getting pommeled by the English. Hungary is getting really chummy with Sicily.Aragon maybe? My big question is when are they going to learn?

I’m interested in whether the Patriarch of Rome does see that all his attempts to defend the petty Latin feudatories were pointless and actually lead to a realistic compromise. If they do that, a split with Moscow is almost certain.

Go the Louis XIV route. Anyone who wishes to become a new priest/monk/nun must swear to uphold the idea that Hesychasm is false.Ignore the people who are already there.

Trying to get rid of monks would be very nasty optics wise. These are peaceful,’defenceless’ men of god even if their beliefs are false. I think the ‘dumb’ and most reliable way to win would be to slowly appoint anti-hesychast bishops and priests in the newly conquered lands after natural...