Thande
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This is a very interesting and original concept. The difficulty is really getting the Khitai into India in the first place in any great numbers, though I guess just having a foreign ruling class in small numbers can have a big impact on India (as with Persian-derived dynasties in OTL).
If Wu Cheng'en is not butterflied away, I wonder what Journey to the West would be like in TTL - the Ming might have more knowledge of India, but on the other hand it might also be distorted by it being filtered through the Kara-Khitai regime.
If Wu Cheng'en is not butterflied away, I wonder what Journey to the West would be like in TTL - the Ming might have more knowledge of India, but on the other hand it might also be distorted by it being filtered through the Kara-Khitai regime.
Rum is the name used by lots of people at this time (e.g. the Seljuq Turks) to mean what we now call the Byzantine Empire (a name which was never used until after its end). It's simply the word 'Rome' rendered through other languages, though confusingly as you say that mostly ended up being applied to what in OTL is now Greece and Turkey because of where the Byzantines' power base was.Is "Rum" basically TTL's term for what in OTL we'd call Greece? It seems like the ERE has fared better than OTL.