This has promise! Subscribed.
And thank you, to you as well!
This has promise! Subscribed.
I wonder how the Pope would react to a pagan horde from across the world 600 miles from Rome, at the doorstep of Italy. IMO, Sicily is the most underused point of invasion into Europe, the others being Gibraltar and the Bosphorus.
Ok, I was wrong. This has more than just promise.
Very interesting POD, and phenomenal job developing the supplemental description of Guyuk's conquests and their legacy! Quick question, how do these alternate Mongol conquests in the West affect the establishment of the Yuan dynasty? Also looking forward to a description of the ill-fated Mongol expedition into the Sudan
I'll also be interested to see how/if *Tordesillas plays out, and the pattern of Portuguese exploration and settlement in the Americas. Will we see a greater Portuguese North America in this TL?
Excellent work, looking forward to seeing more. Subscribed!
Interesting, I'm reading this
When Mansa Musa visited, his gifting of gold greatly decreaded it's value in the Middle East for a generation, so I think that might make it worse.
al-Ghossarah also noted the other great cities of Iran, such as Rayy and Isfahan, and then noted the renaissance of Central Asia, still under distant Chinese control and, as he noted, the last redoubt of Zoroastrian rule in Asia. Samarqand and other cities had been rebuilt on trade, the threat of nomads largely neutralized by the powerful writs of the Great Khan. Central Asia was the great nexus of the northern trade, where Muslim Iranians, Christian Russians, Indians and Chinese met under Yuan control in cities otherwise controlled by the Zoroastrian majority.
Excellent descriptions, I'm really enjoying reading this timeline
What's the POD for the continued prevalence of Zoroastrianism in Central Asia? In OTL, Central Asia was largely Islamized by the 9th Century.
Also, how long after Talas did China re-establish authority in the region ITL?
EDIT: Ah, by Chinese control, do you mean Yuan?
Good start Tsar Gringo!
I like TTL.
Still, maps are beautiful and useful.
You may need to cover some aspects in the European history:
- how big the Black Death hit Europe and what are the consequences/differences between OTL?
- is a HYW in TTLL?
- What will happens in the British islands?
- What are the consequences of France being bigger? Will English loose the continental possession earlier? will France focusing more on the rich Low Countries/pushing frontier to Rhine? or to the rich and prestigious Italy? or both?
- how the HRE will develop? Interregnum ? Will it centralize or desegregate even more?
- Is the North Africa subject of European expansion early on? (Portugal, Castile and France could be very interested about this...)
- How things are in Eastern/South Europe?
Thanks!
Glad you enjoy the timeline. Some European supplemental updates will come, but let me answer the questions that won't be covered in supplemental updates and that won't be answered within the TL itself.
I can tell you North Africa won't be subject to any more European expansion than OTL during the period- attempts to seize ports, et cetera. Actually moving into the hinterland will have to wait for the late 18th and 19th centuries TTL.
The Black Death happens TTL as well, and hits different places. All the major cities of the Mongol and European world are hit, but certain places get off better than others. Germany gets hit less hard, but Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, all of which avoided more of the plague OTL, will get hit hard by Red Horde Russia's biological warfare.
In fact, the disease will spread slightly differently. It'll probably enter Western Europe via trade in the Eastern Mediterranean, esp. with the state at Acre. In northern Europe, its the Danish monarchs, not the Ynglings, who are decimated by plague.
The British Isles- some different people survive; a King Alphonso, grandson of Henry III, marries an Ingibjorg, Maid of Norway, and they unite the main British isle. Irish wars come afterwards.
The Holy Roman Empire will devolve away from centralization, as in OTL; the internal politics are different in the details, but generally it is still neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.