John Fredrick Parker
Donor
So this board obviously has a lot of discussion on this general idea, so in large measure we're going over stuff we talked about before; we'll also be going with a pretty standard PoD, where the Ethiopian army reaches Mecca in 570 CE. The twist for this particular thread -- I want us to focus on just the geopolitical implications on the affected civilizations, only as far as 800 CE. So for example:
*AIUI, Viking Expansion down the Volga was a 9th Century phenomenon, and so falls out of the purview of this thread.
- How are the tribes of the Arabian peninsula affected by our PoD?
- How, in turn, does the Empire of Askum fare in this time?
- What of the Sassanids; do they last another 150 years or more?
- And what of the Eastern Roman Empire; do they hold together in this same time?
- How does the Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia fare during this time?
- Do the Franks still get their shit together in the 8th Century, or absent the threat of Muslim Spain, do they continue to squabble among themselves?
- Obviously there's no Muslim Conquest of Transoxiana, and thus no Battle of Talas; does this mean there's no An Lushan Rebellion in China?
*AIUI, Viking Expansion down the Volga was a 9th Century phenomenon, and so falls out of the purview of this thread.