Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4923787-20130202175501/@comment-32656-20130512040825

Impossible for Timur to cross to the Balkans. He had quite literally no ships, boats, or anything like that. He could not chase the Ottomans, he can't chase the Byzantines - who would have a larger fleet and more troops than the Ottomans in that scenario.

If Issac does that, you avoid an entire round of fighting. His brother and then his nephew would follow him after his death in 1061. It would help, but the extent of it is debatable.

Catching the Turks in daylight for Kaptron would make a difference.

What do you mean by "Caesarea?" There's a lot of places that could mean.

Burgundians didn't really want Italy. The previous holding of the title was only because they also held the HRE, and the gave up their claims very willingly to get another kingdom. They would do nothing.

Germany, at that point, was a kingdom, not an emperorship. That's an inaccurate picture of the later German Empire, too - that was far more centralized than most think.

Most of Northern Italy was part of the HRE already, and the rest would not ever be. The role of emperor would just be assigned to one of the other Kings for their reigns. Will of the Pope means far less than you think, too, especially in that era.

Timur would not die in battle. Nor could his empire take all India.

...Jin means things like advance, promote or enter.

Definitely would not use the old names.

You're on the right track with earth and metals - just find a name for a metal and run with it.

Catholicism could do that anytime. All you need is a leader to do it. Doubt it changes the middle ages much, however.