Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4923787-20130202175501/@comment-32656-20130710064412

Venice has money, the lagoon, a fleet, and allies. There's no way for the HRE to take them.

At best, 2.5 miles from the mainland to Venice today. And the lagoon is a tad filled in from what it once was. There's nothing that they can do to it with such weapons.

No.

Don't see anything wrong with your timeline yet, though you need to remember that the changes in the HRE/Italy will effect events elsewhere.

What the Ancient Greeks called "democracy" and what we call it are not exactly the same thing.

Nothing Pericles could have done would have stopped that plague. It hit the entire region, not just Athens. Heck, Sparta suffered from it just as badly. "Overcrowding" had nothing to do with it.

Not impossible for them to defeat Sparta. But you ask far more of their navy than is at all possible. Quite frankly, I doubt that they could even manage one of those things.

The maneuvers that those two generals did not do, for whatever reason, are debatable. It could have helped the Spartans, or hindered them. For that matter, they may have been outright impossible to achieve - everything notes that such tactics were unprecedented.

"Equality?" Nothing of the sort existed between them. Not did Pericles advocate such things.

Not at all possible. An Athenian victory, not impossible. But the rest of that is.

Not impossible for Alexander to live longer, or for his son to even succeed him. But that empire would not last. It would collapse. The India part, not happening.

Can, as I've said before several times, take one idea and stick with it. Drop the idea of equality, too. That concept is very new in human history, and it's simply not possible prior to it.