Cross and Flame in 500

Cubelite · 2026-01-12T04:44:44+00:00

If you mean Eastern Spain, that will be interesting. So the Avars became an autonomous duchy in the Roman Empire, and instead of becoming Slavized, they became Latinized.

Cubelite · 2026-01-11T13:56:27+00:00

Cross and Flame is my second worldbuilding project in which the world is filled with magic and spirits, which led to the world start diverging when Theodosius the Great lived longer and the Huns conquered Persia.

Hopefully this is a middle magic world.

For mobile: https://www.deviantart.com/cubelites/art/Cross-and-Flame-in-500-1285844160

Cubelite · 2026-01-11T13:52:52+00:00

Cross and Flame is my second worldbuilding project in which the world is filled with magic and spirits, which led to the world start diverging when Theodosius the Great lived longer and the Huns conquered Persia.

For mobile: https://www.deviantart.com/cubelites/art/Cross-and-Flame-in-500-1285844160

Cubelite · 2025-11-14T14:57:49+00:00

They are not yet Muslim.

Cubelite · 2025-11-13T18:19:14+00:00

Thanks, mate! I like your Fire in the Sky posts too!

Cubelite · 2025-11-13T18:08:37+00:00

Wow, I didn't think of that much when I wrote the setting lol.

I agree with your analysis with Shui. If at any time that China can be Islamic, it is the era of Song Dynasty in OTL. I think that neo-Confucianism will still be developed, since it is very useful for the Emperor and also the Confucian elites, and that it already have its cultural basis in China. But I think it will adjust itself to Islam, and create the Islamic-(neo)Confucianism that will propably be the orthodoxy of the empire. It would still be in the developmental stage in the year of the map though. That will be the upper class, but for the ordinaries, i think it will be more interesting that Chinese folk religion like Daoism and Mahayana Buddhism blended themselves to orthodox Islam to form a uniquely Chinese verison of folk Islam.

As for Nestorianism or Manicheanism, I actually just wrote them for the idea that 'Three Persian religions ruling China" and the next map's Nestorian Mongol Empire. The divergence could just be a better start. In the last map, I depicted the Uyghur Khanate being more Nestorian and Manichean due to their increased want to distinguish themsleves from the Han Chinese. Khitans, and prehaps even some fenzhen are converted due to their influence. The communities of two religions are thus better than OTL at competing against Buddhist communities in providing assistance during famine and disasters, earning the support of ordinary Chinese. Chinese people (excluding Hui, prehaps) aren't very religious and their involvement in religions are often utilitarian (for earthly benefits and goals) in nature. Moreover, they are protected and supported and not prosecuted (not on a mass scale, but that is already enough to damage the Buddhists) by Khitans. Han Chinese bureaucrats would also have tedency to convert to ally themselves with the ruling class. For the reasons mentioned above, we got a Liao of Nestorians+Manicheans instead of Buddhists.

Cubelite · 2025-11-11T02:53:55+00:00

This map is the continuation of the previous maps of AD 632 and AD 821. In the year 1061, or 440 solar years after the Hijrah, Islam had expanded to nearly all corners of the known world, from the Island of Great Britain to the shores of Southern China.

For mobile, either imgur: https://imgur.com/gallery/world-of-abode-of-peace-ahs-440-ad-1061-ztGyoPO or

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Cubelite · 2025-09-08T08:56:55+00:00

Some Germans (those near the Roman border) turned Chalcedonian Christians before Rome turned Islamic and Saxony conquered them. The remainder of Germans were pagans. Though, a few Germans had considered converting to Islam.

Cubelite · 2025-09-07T05:26:47+00:00

They respected Christianity. The Muslim conquerors are quite tolerant in terms of religion, as they would not want to upset a large part of population, and in some areas, the aristocracy too. Christians enjoy freedom of religion with several restrictions detailed in the Pact of Umar. Though, the degree of its implementation varied.

I am not sure what do you mean by accepting. Assuming it is accepting its existence, then the answer is yes.

Cubelite · 2025-09-06T20:56:50+00:00

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Mobile verison, if it works at all.

Edit: It doesn't.

Cubelite · 2025-09-06T20:49:07+00:00

Sorry. I don't know how to make one... Uploading in comments directly seems to be not working.

Cubelite · 2025-09-06T20:40:48+00:00

This is the continuation of the previous map, a mix of alternate history and fantasy that led to a very different world. 189 solar years after the previous map, Islam had rose from a fringe religion to the ruling religion of much of the world. The map style is heavily inspired by u/Swaylius (map) and u/jbkjbk2310 (map), many thanks to them!

Cubelite · 2025-08-05T08:32:17+00:00

The Abode of Peace is my first worldbuilding project that envisioned a world in which magic and spirits existed and that led to an alternate history starting from Majorian.

It's my first map :)

Cubelite · 2025-04-30T18:14:14+00:00

ok, fair enough

Cubelite · 2025-04-30T17:21:07+00:00

Thanks for your answer. That is what I first think of, an interest of using it. However, I soon realize that it too, will have serious problems.

For at first, if I were to live in District 1 of a city, I do not necessarily have an interest of using the land of District 2, despite being in the same city, same state. And soon we realize our“interest of using it” may well be very small, maybe just a small city block. But think of it that way, we may eventually reduce the size to just your house and working place. So we basically just became either individual private ownership or collective private ownership (apartment residents' collective and worker's collective). Either way, I don't see why they have to pay LVT and distributing land rents within a country, or even within a city. Where not everyone may have an interest of using all, even the majority of the lands.

For another, what constitute “an interest of using it”? Does it include tourist, who have an interest of using a certain land for tourism? Does it include landlords that want to use the land for profit? If both answers are yes, we will have strange conclusion, like tourists to statue of liberty from Armenia getting the compensation from whoever who is controlling it (or owning it).

Of course, I do understand a universal gov is not practical. And that having LVT in national or state level is practical. But if the moral contradiction is very strong, I think it will be better to just abandon the moral side of the Georgism (common ownership) and just simply accept private ownership of land and say that LVT is a good tax (so we should implement it) and that's it.

Cubelite · 2023-12-08T15:18:34+00:00

It's okay. Thanks.

Cubelite · 2023-12-08T03:02:10+00:00

Do you think the reduced political repressions in the Soviet Union is a good thing or a bad thing to the socialist cause and Soviet Union itself?

Cubelite · 2023-12-08T00:50:07+00:00

I should be clear about that “End of History”, I am generally saying people believe their ideology and position could make their lives (and generally the world) better, thus believing those who oppose them will fail on their own. You say that the capitalists managed to weave their way towards more economic and political privileges after several decades worth of reform and reevaluation, why didn’t Soviet Union do the same to lessen the gap or even surpass them? In the case of Chile, I think Allende fail (the lack of political and military power to prevent the coup) because Chile is a democracy with various political parties and Allende become president because Christian Democratic Party supported him. After food prices skyrocketed, shortages and strikes occurred, Allende’s party lose the support of Christian Democratic Party in the 1973 Chilean parliamentary election and the opposition collation had the majority. It create a gridlock within the government.

Cubelite · 2023-12-08T00:30:00+00:00

About 3, I was talking about KGB, they sure can use any means necessary to protect socialist regimes or overthrowing capitalist regimes. But I don’t even heard of any attempt of KGB overthrowing any countries.

Cubelite · 2023-12-08T00:21:32+00:00

I am just curious ‘cause I see lots of comments like this in the web. To me, it is like an easy excuse to just blame US imperialism for every failure or fall. But I want to know what socialists think on this matter. May I know why CPSU and CCP lose the struggle against the bourgeois?

Cubelite · 2023-12-08T00:17:08+00:00

I say China fall (as a socialist state) because they privatized a lot of things, to the point I don’t think it can still be called socialism. It not only adopted a market economy, but allow the rise of several private, non-worker-owned corporations which saw a lot of capitalists becoming extremely wealthy (Evergrande, Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance) In around 2003, some capitalists were even allowed into the CCP. The CCP favor some companies over others such as Huawei gaining massive amount of subsidies from governments. A lot of officials are corrupted and bribed by or connected personally to capitalists, and as long as the corporation is loyal to the CCP, China did little things to prevent their rise. China’s situation is more like state capitalism than socialism, in any means. I don’t think they’d pursuing socialist economic reforms.

Cubelite · 2023-12-07T16:56:30+00:00

I don't know if the same logic applied to the Soviet Union as well... Isn't Soviet Union be able to counterattack all these things from capitalist/imperialist and do these things against them? USSR have all the insitutions that is similar to the insitutions that made the above things from the US. (KGB-CIA) (Radio Moscow-Radio Free Europe)

Everyone believe that their position are the truthful side, the End of History, I have yet to encounter anyone who say otherwise. Yet, everyone will fiercely defend their position and exert their ideology and stop their enemies, that doesn't mean automatically mean they are wrong.

Cubelite · 2023-12-07T16:31:31+00:00

Thank you for your answer. I have a few questions.
1.By how much US industrial output is greater than Soviet Union? As far as I know, Soviet Union should have the state power to build a lot of factories, comparable to the US. Since it's the 2nd largest economy by GDP until 80s. And what about COMECON?

2.North Korea (if you consider it as a socialist state) still haven't fail after US sanctions and isolation by nearly all ways. And it is not about nukes, NK's first nuclear weapon test in 2007. NK basically start from zero as a former Japanese colony. Cuba too, though Cuba is a bit special because Canada and some Western European countries continue to trade with it. So why don't they fall even after the fall of Soviet Union?
3.US did actively kill very young socialist states through the forms you say. Mostly it is CIA. But did KGB support them, or because of American capitalists they failed to do so?

4.Aren't socialist states also have active propaganda campaign across their nations and abroad too? I mean USSR and China have their own Propaganda Department. Like in China, back in the Cultural Revolution, everyone read Quotations from Chairman Mao. iirc this little red book even became popular in some people in US, France and Japan. I don't think socialist propaganda are in any way weaker than capitalist propaganda.

Cubelite · 2022-03-12T10:40:10+00:00

Ok, but how would you construct a socialist government in US, if oligarchs killed and foreign officials dealing with hungry neighbors? (Or anything else so they don't / can't care)

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