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Buddhism was present at least as far west as Hormuz in pre-Islamic times, as Buddhist symbols exist on Qeshm island, and there were Buddhists in the Arsacid royal court.

I have a few: Alp Arslan (1029-72), Seljuq Sultan. Defeated the Byzantine Romans at Manzikert, 1071. Darius the Great (550-486 BC), Persian Shahanshah. Conquered much of the Middle East, bringing the Persian Empire to its maximum extent. My namesake. Timur Lang (1336-1405), Emir of the...

What about the Papacy? They were already independent after the Battle of Legnano in 1176. Crushing the Lombard League will subjugate some of the Kingdom of Italy under HRE authority but the Ghibelline cities such as Genoa will remain independent polities under HRE suzereignty. The Kingdom...

The best opportunity for Christian Maghreb with a late POD is around the 13th century. Have the crusaders move their eyes to North Africa rather than the Levant (which they did in OTL, but too late for real action because crusader fervor had died down a considerable amount by then). Roger of...

Whoops, I meant Croat nobility, not Czech. I had a stupid moment!

I believe he meant Berber Piracy and the taking of Spaniards as slaves, rather than end slavery.

The eastern frontier of the Holy Roman Empire pretty much remained stagnant after the Kingdom of Bohemia lost Upper Silesia in 1469. Were the Hungarian and Czech nobility willing to join the Holy Roman Empire? The decision isn't solely that of the monarch - maybe in theory, but not in practice.

Well yes, Eurasia is one land mass, I do understand that - but the Ancient Greeks invented the concept of Europa, Asia (Anatolia, meaning sunrise) and Africa (Libya). I didn't mean ancients and Australia, but rather the early European discoveries in the 17th century. It wasn't really until...

I have several questions about continents: 1. Europe, Asia and Africa were European concepts before the discovery of the Americas. Did anyone else (Indians, North Africans, Persians etc) have concepts of 'continents' before adopting the European concept? 2. How would it be possible to have...

Butterflies, man, butterflies. Do you not think that: 1. If the Native Americans survive, they will be converted to Christianity? Look at Bolivia, Peru, Mexico etc as examples 2. If Indians colonised the Americas, it would entirely butterfly away the existence of the United States...

The problem is, Albania and Bosnia had entirely different situations. First, lets make sure it's clear, Bosnia has never had a Muslim majority - it has a Muslim plurality of around 40%, with a split between the Catholics and Orthodox Christians. Albania also has a significant Christian minority...

You can't really compare the Abbasids (who fell for a variety of reasons, not just 'illegitimacy' - btw, even after the loss of most of their territory and subjugation by the Seljuks, they continued to hold influence for hundreds of years until the Mongols wiped the floor with them in 1258 -...

I'm confused, are you asking us to make this a reality? I can't see any way without the intervention of the Alien Space Bats than you can have a POD where the Americas gets such a diverse population during the colonial era and yet the USA still comes into existence.

There were Turkish majorities in parties of what is now Greece (e.g. Rhodopes), but it didn't stop the Greek take over. The problem is that without ethnic cleansing of some sort, you're always going to end up with the Christian Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs etc rising up and when they ally against...

The lack of legitimacy in the HRE claiming the title of 'Roman Emperor' in the form they assumed it didn't stop the HRE existing for over 800 years. Anyway to answer your other question, Al Hasa was owned (not vassalised) by the Ottomans until 1916, when it was taken by the Sauds during World...