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What would the world look like had Byzantium never fallen?
If you take the option with manizkert the Crusades as we know them do NOT happen. Orthodox Christianity remains the dominant economic and military force from Savajero to Kiev to Armenia to Syria + Palestine. The Turks take Persia and invade India instead of battering against the Byzantine rampart. Egypt is ultimately regained for the faith as is much of coastal North Afrika. Spain falls to the Catholics faster (Crusaders) as well as Tunis,Algiers, and Alexandria. Islam is the majority religion of India and much stronger in mainland southeastasia. Islam penetrates interior Africa more quickly. Europe makes contact with coastal afrika in the 12-13th centuries instead of the 15th-16th. Scott
Byzantium occuppies the Balkans, Egypt, Libya, Palestine, TransJordan, Syria, Edessa, Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Kuban, the Crimea and Ukraine.
The Caliphate sits in Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sinkiang, Kazakstan, South Russia, part of Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.
Russia runs from Smolensk to Murmansk to Volgagrad to Lake Bikal
The various Berber and Arab Emirates cover North and Central Africa from the interior mountains across the mountains to the savannah.
Christian Catholic and Protestant Europe holds the balance of Europe, coastal north Africa, coastal west Africa, South Africa and the Americas.
Great China still rules Indochina, Korea, Mongolia and much of Siberia.
Japan has much of the Pacific, the Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, NZ, NG, and Inca Peru.
There are Hindi princelets in central and south India without various degrees of European and Japanese backing.
The military tech level is early XXth century - fewer, larger states make for a slower arms race as they ahve too much invested in the old stuff for quick turnover. The civilian tech is say 1930's - 1940's.
Major warfare died out in the early steam age. The major civilizations were
different enough that conquests were increasingly hard to digest. Besides steam age trade pays too well.
If you take the option with manizkert the Crusades as we know them do NOT happen. Orthodox Christianity remains the dominant economic and military force from Savajero to Kiev to Armenia to Syria + Palestine. The Turks take Persia and invade India instead of battering against the Byzantine rampart. Egypt is ultimately regained for the faith as is much of coastal North Afrika. Spain falls to the Catholics faster (Crusaders) as well as Tunis,Algiers, and Alexandria. Islam is the majority religion of India and much stronger in mainland southeastasia. Islam penetrates interior Africa more quickly. Europe makes contact with coastal afrika in the 12-13th centuries instead of the 15th-16th. Scott
Byzantium occuppies the Balkans, Egypt, Libya, Palestine, TransJordan, Syria, Edessa, Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Kuban, the Crimea and Ukraine.
The Caliphate sits in Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sinkiang, Kazakstan, South Russia, part of Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.
Russia runs from Smolensk to Murmansk to Volgagrad to Lake Bikal
The various Berber and Arab Emirates cover North and Central Africa from the interior mountains across the mountains to the savannah.
Christian Catholic and Protestant Europe holds the balance of Europe, coastal north Africa, coastal west Africa, South Africa and the Americas.
Great China still rules Indochina, Korea, Mongolia and much of Siberia.
Japan has much of the Pacific, the Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, NZ, NG, and Inca Peru.
There are Hindi princelets in central and south India without various degrees of European and Japanese backing.
The military tech level is early XXth century - fewer, larger states make for a slower arms race as they ahve too much invested in the old stuff for quick turnover. The civilian tech is say 1930's - 1940's.
Major warfare died out in the early steam age. The major civilizations were
different enough that conquests were increasingly hard to digest. Besides steam age trade pays too well.