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Middle East 1550-1600

@HelloLegend: If you had read the TL carefully, you'd have found out that since the not-happened Mongol invasion of Japan in 1274 everything changed in the country. The last recognizable charcter from OTL is Hojo Sadatoki who died in 1311.
@Admiral Matt: Yes, Scotland reigns all of Ireland now (although the reign is more loose than the English one).

And here's Middle East 1550-1600:

~1550: Arab captains in the Red Sea start to equip their ships with European iron cannons, which are superior to the Chinese bronze cannons, start piracy in the Indian Ocean.

1556-65: England-Castille-Portugal declares war on the Seljuks, enraged over the fate of Rome. Savoy and Florence join the war.

1559: Rome reconquered by Christians; all the Muslims found there are massacred.

1562: Sea battle of Malta; Seljuk-Barbary fleet decimated.

1565: Peace of Ostia. Seljuks give up Latium (to Florence) and the Marches, Algiers, Tunis and Sicily (to E-C-P). The Romans displaced ~20 years ago return in triumph. The victorious Italians demand that the Pope returns to Rome, which the French king denies.

1567-74: France, Venice and the HRE declare war on the weakened Seljuks.

1569: French land at Port Said, conquer the city.

1571: Seljuks conquer Port Said back.

1572: After another uprising of the Carbonari, Florence joins the war, attacks Naples.

1574: Peace of Krems (Austria). Seljuks have to cede Dalmatia to Venice, the county of Naples to Florence, Salzburg to Bavaria, Austria to Württemberg-Carinthia and western Hungary to France. Francois of Bourbon elected new king of Hungary.

1577: A Seljuk-Omani fleet defeats a Chinese Treasure fleet, takes unbelievable riches with them.

1580-82: The former tributary Georgia is made a Seljuk province. Protests and uprisings are put down, not without cruelty.

1586: Arab pirates take the Maledives, extend their radius.

1591: Arab pirates capture several cities on Sri Lanka.

Read [post=689078]a little travelogue here[/post]!