Hey B444, just curious to know the numbers of warships the navies of Europe have. I know you said that the Dutch and Triunes have a larger merchant marine, but whom has the largest navy at this point?
That kind of reasoning doesn't work out in real life though. For example, Jews only constituted 0.75% of 1933 Germany's population; that didn't exactly lessen the prejudice or discirmination against them. I'd expect that to be the same for the Muslim Egyptians.
Calling him Majerteen is alright. It's common to use someone's title as a sort of surname; like how the Duke of Wellington is often just called Wellington.
Contrary to most people in this thread, I'd doubt that the war would go quite as easily for the ERE as people think it will. I honestly don't think the Ottomans would have invaded Georgia if they didn't think they would have a reasonable chance of success against both nations. Of course, it also...
I'd expect if the Black Stone is ever returned, it'll be brought back to Mecca. The Kaaba can be rebuilt; it's been done plenty of times in history. And I'd expect Mecca to retain its religious importance; whatever the state of the city, it's still the birthplace of the Prophet and where he...
I was just thinking about the consequences of Mecca. Now obviously a lot of Muslims in the Levant are pretty pissed off at what's happened, but obviously any kind of large-scale resistance will be crushed by the Romans. So instead of armed rebellions, we might see instead see a TTL version of...
Out of curiosity, what happened to Medina? It's the second most holiest city in Islam, after all, the there's a number of very important holy sites there as well, including the tomb of Muhammad and many of the early Caliphs. If the Christians sack it as well, along what has been done to Mecca...
The problem with the situation in the Nile is that it's essentially combining a religious war and a slave rebellion, both of which on their own invite the potential for a lot of atrocities, since both sides know exactly what will happen if they lose.
China's kind of like a sleeping giant at this point. Once the Mandate of Heaven is restored and if it manages to successfully modernise, I could definitely see lots of conflicts in the East.
I seems to me that the Romans and Triunes are gonna be in a cycle of continously raiding each other's commerce. Also, could there be a list of who owns what colony? It's hard to remember who possesses what in the New World now.