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Knights of Aragon The will of Alfonso the Battler is enforced and the 1100s Kingdom of Aragon is granted to the Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaler, and Knights of the Holy Sepulcher. An alternate Albigensian Crusade results in a Catalan-Occitan kingdom ruled by Christian knightly orders...

It was not really an in-depth look into an alternate history, it was satire.

An Arabian Scandinavia is probably ASB, the area is just too distant to be Arabized like Egypt or North Africa. A Muslim Scandinavia might be possible if the Rus convert to Islam rather than Christianity. You would need the Arabs to defeat Byzantium for that to occur. Maybe the Arabs...

Earlier European colonization of Africa results in SIV evolving into HIV much quicker, before the basics of virology are even known.

^^^THIS^^^ is what I was wondering as well. A McCain Presidency with what sounds like a worse economy than IOTL would certainly eliminate the rise of the Tea Party as well as Republican gains in 2010.

I'm actually working on a Templar TL myself. The POD is going to be the will of Alfonso the Battler actually being carried out. IOTL he explicitly left his kingdom to be given to the Templars, Hospitallers, and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. On his death though, his brother Ramiro was taken...