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  1. What if the outcome of the "Glorious" Revolution had been decided by a sword duel between King James VII & II and William of Orange?

    I am legitimately curious how the religious matters would have gone here. Even assuming Catholic kings were accepted, my limited understanding is that there's going to be a lot of friction on that point with a POD anywhere near James VII/II.

  2. What if the outcome of the "Glorious" Revolution had been decided by a sword duel between King James VII & II and William of Orange?

    If that was the purpose, I must say that it failed. Especially since "I'm going to happily ignore that the role of Mary's father and uncle in her marriage because this is about trying to promote the Jacobite cause more than two centuries after it stopped being relevant to anything." has its...

  3. What if the outcome of the "Glorious" Revolution had been decided by a sword duel between King James VII & II and William of Orange?

    There's a lot of question marks to if James would have spared the Irish centuries of misery, for one thing. I think it would be genuinely interesting to see a thread on if James did, in fact, continue to rule - but threads like "What if William decided to act like Darth Vader? Wouldn't that be...

  4. What if the outcome of the "Glorious" Revolution had been decided by a sword duel between King James VII & II and William of Orange?

    Is that bit on the role of the Irish in government any different than anything earlier, as in making a stronger point of it? Just thinking that it even just being there at all feels like James wanted to make a point of it, but I'm not familiar enough with Stuart policies to compare him to other...

  5. What if the outcome of the "Glorious" Revolution had been decided by a sword duel between King James VII & II and William of Orange?

    It makes about as much sense as William being interested in resolving this with a sword duel.

  6. What if the Byzantine empire & the kingdom of Georgia fused via Royalty-marrying royalty?

    There's also the question why the Georgians would want this union, for that matter. Even apart from wildly varying succession laws, there's not a lot of motivation for anyone to push for this here.

  7. Not so invincible after all: Fastest declines of powerful dynasties and noble houses 1200-1500AD

    How much would you put their collapse as domestic problems vs. foreign ones?

  8. Not so invincible after all: Fastest declines of powerful dynasties and noble houses 1200-1500AD

    The reason I'm not sure is that someone could argue that Edward IV dying without an adult heir doesn't seem that invincible, but it sure counts as the dynasty being kicked off the high seat within five years of the founder's (given that Edward's father was never king) death. I think that makes...

  9. Not so invincible after all: Fastest declines of powerful dynasties and noble houses 1200-1500AD

    The House of York's end seems like it ought to count as at least worth mentioning, although I'm not sure what "within five years or less" refers to here - five years or less of what?

  10. Consequences of No Restoration of the French Parlements?

    This one raises a question as far as what could have been and what was not a possibility: What stops the bourgeoise from seeing the King as a better ally than the nobility? Their goals and interests? The King's? Just no one seeing there as a point to that?

  11. WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?

    The other thing is that no one knows if this is going to be worth the effort and expense in advance. Not to say that means they don't do anything, but it's a factor that will influence what the Romans see this plant as.

  12. WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?

    What Nivek said, pretty much. If it's just some random thing that people grow purely because the rich have the money to waste, it's rather unlikely that they're going to make extensive use of it - especially in any fashion that would lead to experiments leading to vulcanization.

  13. WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?

    What, in this time period, do you see rubber as doing that other materials would not do better?

  14. What if the German Empire had no colonies -> Better performance in WWI?

    Not helped by him bouncing between awkwardly Anglophilic and awkwardly Anglophobic as far as his personal behavior. Without getting into if which one would be better for Germany past "It depends." that is a great way to ruffle feathers and a poor way to indicate any preference on strategy to -...

  15. No recapture of Constantinople in 1261

    It probably falls within another few years barring some shocking twist (Michael VIII being killed/usurped, say). John IV is all of eleven and without any powerful figures on his side - the Laskarids were popular with the population, but that's not quite the same thing.

  16. Warwolf against Constantinople and a Revolutionary Weapon in Warfare

    Apart from neither ever getting in a position to besiege Constantinople in the first place (OTL), I'm not sure the technology had been developed yet. That seems the main reason for most of the sieges not using anything comparable.

  17. WI: Manuel I Komnenos Didn't Make Peace With the Turks and Kept Up the Pressure?

    I am sure that Conrad's army would pillage everything in its path Just not sure that it means destroying the Seljuks as a power without more commitment to this than "I want to get through Anatolia as soon as possible and waiting up for Manuel is secondary at best." Edited to add: I do want to...

  18. WI: Manuel I Komnenos Didn't Make Peace With the Turks and Kept Up the Pressure?

    The first example of this that comes to mind is that Louis and Conrad were not interested in taking land in Anatolia. They didn't even focus on Edessa once they got through Anatolia. I'd happily agree that if Louis and Conrad were determined to take (for example) Iconium that it's far from...

  19. WI: Manuel I Komnenos Didn't Make Peace With the Turks and Kept Up the Pressure?

    I'm not sure it was doomed, but it was definitely a gamble - not helped by the fact that once things fell apart, Manuel's response seems to have been "I did not expect this!" as opposed to this: "In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who...

  20. Without Manzikert would the Crusades still happen?

    I would find that to be consistent with the behavior of people who had motives other than pure religious conviction, personally. Especially as "already rich" rarely stopped medieval nobles from wanting to be richer. It's a lot easier to believe that (for example) Louis IX had no particular...
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