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The problem with that is that not was Dai Viet militarily stronger, more populous and better organized, but the 'Islam' practiced by the Champa was extremely heterodox--they spent more time declaring jihad on other Champa than they did fighting any outsider. The structures of Champa society were...

Cross-posting from the thread Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult? (@Skallagrim): I agree broadly with Skallagrim. The most likely outcome of any 'Muslim conquest of Francia' after Tours (732) is the Muslims taking a few footholds in the south (Septimania, Toulouse...

I agree broadly with Skallagrim. The most likely outcome of any 'Muslim conquest of Francia' after Tours (732) is the Muslims taking a few footholds in the south (Septimania, Toulouse, the Rhone Valley) and holding them for ~25 years at the most before the Great Berber Revolt and the Third Fitna...

A stub based on two interesting coincidences I found scrolling Wikipedia 1. A minor Roman patrician, Nebridius (fl.c.370-410) was the son-in-law of Gildo, a schismatic rebel that united Kabylia behind him in the 390s, and a female-line relative of the Theodosians; he was also a frequent...

Just a sketch (short on time, don't want to forget). During the meeting at the Doncaster bridge with the Pilgrimage of Grace, the Duke of Norfolk finds himself in a bad spot. The king (Henry VIII) has ordered him to negotiate with the rebels and get them to disperse, but the rebels won't lay...

>know by his supporters as the ‘Sheikh of slaughter’ Good Lord. Nothing good, evidently

I've drifted back to this idea over the last couple days and done some more reading on it, particularly Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and The Huon Gulf and its hinterlands: A long-term view of coastal-highlands interactions. My conclusions...

Revised '1948 WW3 TL' 33. Harry Truman (D-MO) - 1945-1949 34. Harold Stassen (R-MN) - 1949-1957 35. Lucius D. Clay (D-GA) - 1957-1965 36. William Knowland (R-CA) - 1965-1966[1] 37. William Scranton (R-PA) - 1966-1968[2] 38. Mark Hatfield (R-OR) - 1968-1969 39. George C. Wallace (C-AL) - 1969[3]...

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In a timeline I'm working on, Russia is split into a weird three-way 'federalism' from 1951 to 1954, with a republic run out of Novogorod and two 'governorships' an the Cis-Volga and Trans-Volga, whose leaders are nominally appointed by a democratic assembly. In practice, the governorships are...

I've spent a few hours contemplating alternatives to Christianity amongst the Germanic tribes. The mystery religion that stood out the most was the Cult of Isis/Isiacism, which was semi-popular across the Mediterranean Basin, because at least two kings of the Alemanni (Mederic and...

Rather...unfortunate....scenario that occured to me yesterday THE CLINTONING 42. Bill Clinton (D-AR) / Al Gore (D-TN) (1993-2001) (def. Bush/Quayle 1992, Dole/Kemp 1996) 43. Al Gore (D-TN) / Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) (2001-2009) (def. Bush/Cheney 2000, McCain/Bush (?) 2004) 44. Hillary Clinton...

The desert sand and the night wind were cold against her burning skin. It had been worse than usual, a harder run over worse ground, and her lungs burned for air with each short, sharp pant, but she couldn’t risk breathing now. Couldn’t risk any noise, not anything. She lay crumpled at the...

As I mentioned in the original post, the most likely ending of a Clayton presidency is Jackson being elected in 1828, but this would reduce the significance of his presidency to essentially being a speedbump on the road to Jacksonianism. A much more interesting prospect is Clayton being...

To be explained later: 1825 - 1829: Thomas Clayton (F-DE) / John C. Calhoun (DR-SC) 1829 - 1833: Thomas Clayton (NR-DE) / John Sergeant (NR-PA) 1833 - 1837: Andrew Jackson (D-TN) / John C. Calhoun (D-SC) 1837 - 1841: William Henry Harrison (NR-OH) / Levi Lincoln (NR-MA)