Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4923787-20130202175501/@comment-4923787-20130509194452

Okay.

What about Timur? Do you mean increased cooperation between Timur and the Byzantines, possibly dividing the Fertile Crescent between them? This also seems like a little too late for the ERE to survive, but that could just be me. Could there be anything done to alter the Byzantine-Seljuk Wars in a way that could see Iconium remain Roman? Were there many competent generals at the time?

So Adelaide will just stay with Berengar? She did reach out to Otto, so couldn't she do it to another ruler, like that of France, one of her fiefs, or Burgundy, which if I remember correctly wasn't aligned to the French or German crown yet.

But Otto as Duke of Saxony was able to unite the various German nations-but than again, uniting and remaining united are two different things. Are there any German states that do have potential for unifying a feudal Germany?

Just out of curiousity, since Germany wouldn't be forming the HRE, could an Italian king or duke receive the title of Holy Roman Emperor, and with the will of the Popes, could they unite Italy in one way, shape, or form?