>> 4) Once the crowns of Europe know what has
>> happened, there will be embassies and
>> missions to Britannia. But conquest will
>> not be considered for a good while. If
>> Britannia rejects all Christian missions
>> and remains flagrantly pagan, there might
>> be a Crusade of sorts. Might: there are
>> much worse infidels, actual enemies of
>> Christ, all over the Med and Balkans, and
>> no one is "crusading" against them any more.
>
>
> Unless you call Lepanto a Crusade.
>
> I quite agree, though, that invasion is not the _only_ way to go. Rudolf
> II
> as "Roman Emperor" has an arguable claim to authority over Britannia,
and
> might delegate it to his Spanish cousin. The Spanish, for their part,
have
> enough gold to try and buy the loyalty of at least part of the Britannia
> troops. They would go broke later, in the Thirty Years War, but that's
> still
> in the future. And while the languages are not identical, the average
> Roman
> will probably find it easier to talk to a 16C Spaniard than to, say, a
> Dutchman [1]. The Romans have no obvious reason to ally with Dutch or
> German
> Protestants, whom they may well think of as "Barbarians".
>
> As to religion, if you had to subscribe to some sort of Christianity in
> order to be taken seriously in this world, I suspect the Romans would
> accept
> it before long, probably going for Catholicism, which was based in Rome
> and
> conducted its services in Latin, rather than Protestantism.
>
> Interesting question is what happens to Caledonia. Does the King of
> Denmark/Norway repossess the Orkneys and Shetlands, and have a shot at
> converting the Picts to Lutheranism? Expect some fireworks if he tries.
>
> [1] Of course, European "top people" of any nationality could
communicate
> with them in Latin, but I suspect the Spanish, with a clearly
Latin-based
> language, would seem more like "kindred" to them than the north
Europeans.
Mike, don't you think the French might also have a stake in this kin****p
being as French is as close to Latin as Spanish and they are a whole lot
closer with very short lines of communication? Henri IV would be inclined
to diplomatically oppose any moves by Spain as a matter of foreign policy,
how better to do that then to convince Britannia that Gaul is more like
Rome
than Spain?
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