Recent content by Avitus

That's not really a disagreement, unless you place no blame on Honorius. I certainly wasn't denying that there were a number of factors at play, it's just that Honorius (and Valentinian for that matter) hadn't been mentioned for the parts they played in this thread. With a more competent head of...

Mostly what LSCatilina has been saying, but it should also be noted that Honorius really deserves a fair deal of personal blame for his incompetent rule.

Trebizond recognized the claim of the Palaiologian emperors at some point (I'd need to look it up for the exact year), and changed their title to something along the lines of Emperor of the East, so I think they can safely be ruled out. Anyways, it has to be either 1204 or 1453, and of the...

I've been on a school induced hiatus for a while. Now that's over, but I haven't really worked much on the TL since my break began (I had a family vacation and some leftover school related business to attend to). I can't make any promises, but perhaps now that I'm thinking about it I can get...

Right, and that excuses mass slaughter of civilians in their own homes. Anyways, it's hard to disagree with Elizabeth being the best, though her stats are certainly padded by her long lifespan (either Mary or Edward would probably have been viewed much better than OTL with a longer lifespan...

I used Dusan as an example of an empire that rose and fell quickly in the late medieval Balkans, obviously not because I have some fantasy that the Byzantines benefited greatly in his aftermath, so I have no idea what you think you are proving here. The Byzantines didn't make significant gains...

Utter hogwash. The death toll in Roman conquests paled in comparison to those of the Mongols, and the Romans actually attempted to build up the regions they conquered as long term economic bases which would benefit both the locals and the empire, as opposed to taking what they wanted and burning...

Or they could suffer a horrific collapse, like the Empire of Stephen Dusan, which could land the Empire with a renewed chance at expansion. Before the Ottomans Balkan Empires fluctuated constantly, so the situation could very well change up multiple times before anything is truly settled. It's...

For holding territory, the only way the Byzantines are going to keep anything long term is if the Ottomans are either friendly (probably possible for the reign of a single sultan at most, provided the Byzantines pick the right side in a civil war), or greatly diminished, preferably losing most...

Mostly because bureaucracy is a state function, and since we've already stated that the state is going to fall, then presumably the state bureaucracy will follow suit. One could argue that the barbarians may attempt to keep the bureaucracy intact in order to aid in their rule, but since they had...

Yeah, that's basically the long and short of it. Although, as I mentioned rather than being friendly with Ferdinand we could always wait until he dies and see if the next king of Spain is more open to using Cesare in his capacity as a commander, which might open the new world to him. True, but...

I said, "deal with it" because you have continually denied that Byzantium had any access to offensive troops in the face of massive evidence to the contrary. I see no difference between that and you capping off the post I responded to with "it didn't". It's a jab (stating your opinion as fact...

Exile is going to be a bit of a difficult sell for a number of reasons. Firstly, there was no precedent for using the new world in such a way, and really it never much caught on IOTL for fear of rebellions. Secondly, Cesare is still nobility of a kind, and nobility tended to get a degree of...

Time frame is important here though, and conquistadors weren't really a thing until around when Cortes arrived on the scene (so roughly 1515), so any earlier than that would basically make Cesare the first conquistador, something I think unlikely, because Cesare was never desperate enough to go...

The main reason that won't work is because the new world doesn't become appealing until some time after the OTL deaths of Rodrigo and Cesare, and even though Cesare's death is easily butterflied, we're going to need at least an extra decade, which is a good deal for Rodrigo, before anyone...