It all depends on how he plays his cards following the conquest.
Alienating the Greek subjects would be a serious no-no. The Empire's mechanism functioned and it was quite resistant to changes. The most probable result will be a steady hellenisation of Serbia. The Serbian church would be even...
Nisikipo wouldn't be comprehenssible in any dialect of Greek. Sentence structure in Greek is not always SVO and sometime a good user can play with the order of words in order to emphasise a point. Adjectives are almost always before the noun they define except in cases that they go there for...
LOL
Kopis existed in Greece from 5th century BC at least. For example Xenophon (who lived 80 years before Alexander and never even got near India ) suggests that the Kopis is the ideal cavalry sword. This certainly demonstartes that kopis use was widespread.
Some historian try to find a...
1922
For two long years the victorious Entente powers were trying to carve up the remains of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman sultan and his parliament were under direct British control and thus unable to enforce any of their laws to the local population.
The fact that the westerners were...
Be assured that peace and love were not a part of the OTL equation and it won't be in TTL either.
Turkish internal politics will become more evident in the next update.
This was a popular legend and it is supposed to be a location... It was based on some obscure byzantine prophesies and...
Hellas was a deeply divided country during the 1st WW. The huge conflict between the king Kostantinos and the prime minister Venizelos meant that for almost 3 years the country was split in two and from 1916 the country was literaly governed by 2 different governments, Venizelos's one backed by...
The western Hellenes -350 BCE
While the mainland was involved in large scale wars the western colonies prosperred. Four cities in particular -Syracuse, Neapolis, Massalia and Herakleia- enjoyed huge economic and cultural bloom that allowed them to solidify themselves as the leaders of their...
I will be a slight heretic and choise Alexander's army. The reason is simple - it was the only one of them that used "combined arms". Every regiment of the Macedonian army played a specific role that made them able to face all the kinds of warfare and emmerge victorious
a) Because Crete is not fertile enough to support a large population
b) Great political division , Homer states 90 cities in Crete which means that most of them would have been fairly insignigiacat
c) Great internal conflicts (see for excaple the treate between Itanos and Ierapytna preserved...
Cimon,
I did not compare Cleon's ability as a general to Cimon's. Cimon was by far the best general the Athenian state produced and it is a shame that most amateur historians know almost nothing of his exploits. Cleon tried to do what Cimon had done in Boetia and failed spectacularly because...
The Thracian war (364-350 BCE)
The reasons behind the Thracian invasion of mainland greece is still debated amongst historians. As the main reason for the event historian speculate that the loot from Byzantium and the steady income from tarrifs king Cotys was able to collect from the...
Cimon,
we can agree to disagree on Pericles strategy. Yes Pericles transfered the Delian leagues cashier from Delos to Athens and it was circa 10000 talents, but that was before the building of Parthenon. It is estimated that the Athenian operations in the first 2 years costed 2000 talents...
Cimon,
Yes Philip entered Byzantium following two huge sieges - a Byzantium supported by all the might 4th century Athens could provide. The Phrygians entered through treachery and the local populace did not have enough time to organize themselves
Yes, wealthy metoikoi fought as hoplites...
The way I envision thinks now Italy will be far different. Neapolis, Syracuse and Taras are probably the strongest greek cities. Southern Italy will be dominated from one of them. Massalia can expand beyond Gibraltar and this means that given the worse Carthaginian position they could become the...
Sparta and allies
The mass exodus of men that signified the 3rd greek colonisation wave was most evident at Pelloponessos. Sparta in all of its history had created only one colony and in a single generation they had created a network of colonies in Afrika and they were loosing able bodies...