Good chance you get a much more westernised Islam in the long run - this was still very early days.
Or possibly a big split in Islam emerges between a romanised Islam and a more Persian one.
Well yes, in a sense there wasn't a pseudo-scientific theory of biological race.
People tend to confuse that, however, with saying that racism didn't exist. There has always been some degree of prejudice against people who look different or speak differently.
The point though, is that you...
In the case of Phillipa of Hainault it would require both that there was no racism so noone saw her race as worthy of particular comment and yet at the same time require that there was racism so that she was whitewashed in the painting of her at her coronation.
There's good odds (pratically certain) everyone alive today with English ancestry is a descendant of Edward III, and that everyone with European ancestry is descended from Charlemagne.
Mohammed lived a millenia and a half ago, so I can quite believe he is an ancestor of King Charles III...
As for Phillipa of Hainault the idea that she was mixed race comes from this description as far as I can tell by Bishop Stapledon
""The lady whom we saw has not uncomely hair, betwixt blue-black and brown. Her head is cleaned shaped; her forehead high and broad, and standing somewhat forward...
A queen regnant isn't completely out of the question, other countries have had one and these things need to start somewhere.
The big issue with a queen or a child king or just a weak king at this particular period is whether someone else wields the power of the king without being the king...
I feel like Tamerlane's whole life is one big lesson in never betting against him.
I mean I agree on paper that having him conquer Ming China is a huge ask but...
To be fai., weak kings had a bit of a history in Scotland. Scotland quite often had absent monarchs for long periods of time. Several kings were captives of the English for long periods of time and Mary Queen of Scots spent her childhood in France. There were also the other child monarchs as...
Yes. I understand that there are exceptions - a lot of them are related to language (Poland obviously another - but Slavic) . The big division is between Germanic Europe and Romance Europe. (Although in the British Isles there is also Germanic/Gaelic)
It's in the long term it makes the most...
France would probably end up Catholic. You can draw a line through Europe where the borders of the Roman Empire were in the West and the Catholics are almost entirely on the Roman Side and the Protestants on the other side. Look at Belgium vs Netherlands and Austria vs Germany.
England is a...
If they stay together then probably. But I seriously doubt a French, English union would last; the very process you describe would lead to reaction.
Assuming it gets through the 15th century - which is itself I think unlikely, I suspect that the reformation would lead to disintegration. I...
Because in the short term he needs to appeal to the French nobililty and keep them happy more than he does the English. And he needs his heir to grow up with a good understanding of France and the french nobility if he is to hold onto it.
I don't mean specifically the War of the Roses, but some kind of conflict around the same time, with some of the same roots.
Just more generally the whole late medieval period was one of constant crisis and conflict, so I think, within that context, it's extremely unlikely that anyone could...