Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4923787-20130202175501/@comment-32656-20130320092433

Not really - I mean the people who hung around for political favor, tried to bribe officials, tried to get their projects financed, etc. Like modern lobbyists, only worse. Apparently, it was more of a problem then than today.

Alexandria is actually faster to get to all corners. And why on earth would the Greeks want that? So long as their pockets were kept "lined," they wouldn't care.

There is no advantage to Byzantium being made a capital atl.

Peoloponnese and Attica = backwater. Alexandria was far and away the center of Greek culture in this era.

Flags, whenever you want. Would start with the three separate claimant-states having dynastic banners, of course.

A Roman Republic? Anytime after the 1st Century BC - well before your PoD - it's really not happening.

Is still two byzantine/byzantium references.