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Replace windmills with watermills and swap speculaas and Black Forest torte for orange cake and almond-and-honey pastries, and you're on your way to an Al-Andalus-as-the-Dutch picture that's not too far off.So, I guess it's pretty fair to say that the Andalusians are sort of behaving like the Dutch IOTL? They don't really prioritize settlement or forcing conversion upon the newfound peoples, ignoring Cawania for now, and they instead subsidize economic expeditions into foreign lands, importing the sweet, sweet fruits of the Gharb al-Aqsa, the tasty spices of the Indian nations and Nusantara and some slaves they picked up along the way (well, the Dutch weren't known for the latter, I guess). I can't wait for the Europeans to find Muslim Amerindian Emirates in Anawak and Brazil, the Northern one.
I can't say it often enough, amazing timeline.