04-06-2016, 03:51 PM | #11 | |
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If we're talking about Homeline and Centrum, I think Centrum would like it a lot. Byzantium is highly centralized and bureaucratic and ought to be just their cuppa. I would bet that Centrum agents are indoctrinated in the merits of the Roman Empire.
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04-07-2016, 09:22 AM | #12 | |
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The Byzantines died primarily due to to the rise of Islam, to the east, and brutal enmity by Venice, in the west. Remove a hostile, effective force in the West, and Byzantium may be able to expand along the north coast of the Mediterranean while fighting the Muslims to the south and east. Remove Islam, and Byzantium could probably keep Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt and the Black Sea, because they could focus a lot more effort on suppression of Venice (or whomever rises in place of Venice). Domination of the western end of Silk Road trade gives the Byzantines a steady source of income they could use for all sorts of things, if they didn't have to fight the ferocious expansion of Islam. So, kill off Islam, early, and make sure nothing rises in its place (that's a huge jump). Alternatively, have Mohammed become a prophet of Orthodox Christianity, so all of his and his followers' prodigious skills, energy and talents work for Byzantium, instead of against it. Have him rise to become Patriarch of Orthodox Christianity, and you could have a pretty amazing setting.
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04-07-2016, 09:53 AM | #13 | |
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04-07-2016, 11:13 AM | #14 |
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I believe the suggestion was that lack of easy access to the Atlantic Ocean was the obstacle to a global Byzantine empire, and the British Empire was mentioned as a comparison.
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