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I should really look into ancient chinese history. Do you have any books to recommend to get a general view? Anyway, from what you wrote it seems that, in a "chinese Rome" scenario, Christianization could play a major role in romanizing the germanic client kingdoms. I think that the more they...

Just throwing some ideas: -Proper integration of the senatorial élite in the government, which means that instead of using the empire of their own purposes, they have to sustain it with their resources. This happened in the early empire with the provincial élites who looked for citizenship, but...

Yeah i thought about that too. But how much time do you think it would take for the evolving germanic client kingdoms to develop something like a fiscal system and adopt writing? To become some kind of sub-roman kingdoms, but staying independent and perhaps expanding in the frontiers zones of...

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Hi, i'm writing a dissertation for my graduation, and i'm stuck on a subject. Expanding the title, i want to know how the diplomatic relations between Rome and the germanic kingdoms on its borders (Franks, Goths, Alamanni etc) could evolve without the arrival of the Huns. I've recently read...

Hi all. I'd like to ask, as the title says, what evolution could Christianity and the Roman Empire have had if the conversion/tolerance, or better, the positive constantinian policy towards Christianity began earlier. Let's say Diocletian realizes what's going on and puts the zeal that in OTL...

The point i thought about was interpreting the Franks as what the Romans were to the Greeks, to see some kind of continuity in the conquest of Gaul. I mean, their gallo-roman subjects even promoted the myth of the Franks coming from Troy, as the Greeks once did for the Romans. I believe that...

Hi guys, i come here as a history student intent on writing a dissertation to graduate. The theme is late antique history, in particular the developments of aristocraticidentityin Gaul, between the III century crisis and the Merovingian Kingdoms (VII-VIII centuries), and how this identity...

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I like the focus on cultural consequences of a hegemonic ERE, I can't wait to see how it manages to hold all that land with a X century POD.

Thank you very much. Anyway, i usually take 751 as the most late end to antiquity, but study the Carolingians too because some of the IX century developments have roots in the late migration period.

As title says, i'm looking for some good historians about the period from IV to IX centuries. I already read some books by Wickham, and still have to start with Peter Brown's. I have to graduate in history next year, so i thought about gathering some infos and useful insights about the...

Wow, that's very christianophobic of you. There are millions of christians fleeing poverty and warfare to find a better life in the Ummah and you racist middle easterners keep spurting these nonsense. (OOC: This could be a likely reply, lol)

Thanks for the replies; I think most of his points (the technological ones) state that the germanic tribes, more than inventing, have extensively adopted innovations that were not employed en masse during the late empire (because they were not convenient/presence of state institutions that...

I've recently read "How the West won" by Rodney Stark. I know, it's a bit passionate (and explicit) about restoring the old eurocentric view of european history. Some would say it's a piece of propaganda. Anyway, let's put this aside, because reading the part about the fall of the Western...