With a POD around the time of the Indo-European migrations, how can you have it so the Arabian Peninsula is indo-European speaking. Bonus points if you can get Egpyt to do so. Also, all areas that spoke Indo-European languages in OTL, minus colonies and asian russia, must speak an Indo-European language in your scenario.
AHC: Indo-European Arabia
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Delay somehow Alexander the Great's death and let possible Hellenic successor state rule Arabia and Egypt longer.
Or second way is that Byzantine and Persia can keep Arabia and Egypt and prevent Arab invasion on 7th century. Them hasn't necessary rule area until present day but so long anyway that population begun speak Indoeuropean languages.
Or second way is that Byzantine and Persia can keep Arabia and Egypt and prevent Arab invasion on 7th century. Them hasn't necessary rule area until present day but so long anyway that population begun speak Indoeuropean languages.
Even if you can delay Alexander's death, I doubt his empire's going to survive long. The Macedonian hegemony was the product of a good decade of balls-out globe-trotting by a power-mad pride junkie, not unlike Genghis'; that it survived as it did OTL is a miracle in itself.
Too late.
Do you mean that the Diadochi survived as long as they did is a miracle? I'd respectfully disagree strongly, but this isn't the thread for it, so....
There were plenty of roving groups of Indo-Europeans in the Bronze Age. The Hittites seem to have taken over a non Indo-European group. Although the Mitanni spoke a non-IE language, it's clear their ruling class was Indo-Aryan (their names are Indic, and their gods are recognizable as being from the Rig-Veda). The Medes and Persians settled in modern day iran as well.
The bottom line is virtually anyone could have done it, particularly because the Indo-Europeans seemed to have military advantages, such as the Chariot, that many other groups didn't have during this period. The biggest issue would be twofold. First cracking the nut of the Fertile Crescent. Secondly, coming up with some rationale for moving past this. It's not as if Arabia was a land which was much worth conquering, particularly for horse-based pastoralists.
The bottom line is virtually anyone could have done it, particularly because the Indo-Europeans seemed to have military advantages, such as the Chariot, that many other groups didn't have during this period. The biggest issue would be twofold. First cracking the nut of the Fertile Crescent. Secondly, coming up with some rationale for moving past this. It's not as if Arabia was a land which was much worth conquering, particularly for horse-based pastoralists.
Consider that Semitic languages such as Aramaic were spoken well outside of Arabia before the Islamic expansion. Its quite likely those other languages would have to be subsumed by an indo-european language before Arabic would be.
Perhaps they settle in Mesopotamia, and are later expulsed southward into Arabia?