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That number could very well be correct - IIRC the army with which Hulegu Khan invaded Persia and the Caliphate consisted of over two hundred thousand men.

You've got some good points; the Cumans had only recently arrived in Hungary at this point (most of them had fled westwards as a result of an earlier Mongol invasion), and I know for a fact that they retained their nomadic lifestyle for a while. These Cumans would certainly have been familiar...

Suppose the Abbassids would have been successful in killing off all of the Umayyads, or that none of the surviving Umayyads never makes it to al-Andalus for some reason, what would the effect be on Europe and the Muslim world? Without the Caliphate of Cordoba, would the presence of the Muslims...

Communist Wizard - you're back! You've been away for quite a while... Not neccesarily - the Mongols also didn't have too much trouble with conquering the Caucasus, in spite of the fact that that campaign mainly took place in Europe's roughest mountains. Besides, the Mongols included lots of...

Ogedei survives a bit more, by Condottiero. Basileus' Interference TL also includes a Mongol conquest of Europe.

That depends entirely on wether these cities surrender to the Mongols or choose to resist. Kiev is a good example: this city was propably the biggest and wealthiest city in all of northeastern Europe at the time, and the Mongols actually were willing to spare it. However, Kiev chose to resist...

Propably from eastern Europe - especially in the western Khanates, the lionshare of the troops of the Mongols consisted of locals who had submitted to the Mongols. Sending troops and fighting alongside the Mongols was usually one of the things that the Mongols demanded from those who wished to...

That still wouldn't really make a difference, as the Mongols didn't have much trouble with taking the many castles and fortresses in Georgia and Armenia. And those were by far the strongest in all of Europe at the time...

I'll have to disagree here - even if the Persians remain predominately Sunni, that doesn't make them automatically friendly to the Ottomans. The Ottomans could conquer (or better yet: vassalize) a Sunni Persia, but that will draw a lot of the Ottoman's resources. One of the more realistic...

Vijayanagar could still be saved, allthough that depends on how the butterflies of no Mughal empire affects the Bahmani Sultanate and its successor states, the Deccan Sultanates. With a little luck, Vijayanagar could make it.

Well, the Delhi Sultanate was on its way out when the Mughals appeared in OTL. And without the Mughals, odds are that the fragmenting Delhi Sultanate would not be united again. During the 14th century, several independant sultanates had emerged, like the Sultanate of Bengal, the Sultanate of...

Yes, even in such a scenario, it would make far more sense that the British just held on to Java, and left the Dutch with the Moluccas and Frederik-Hendrik Island. BTW, I also notice that British Serawak is smaller than in OTL.

Hmm.....no Belgium, Dutch Congo. French Thailand, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Zanzibar and Swahili coast. Über-Egypt... And I see that Portugal has lost pretty much all its colonies save Portugese Timor, and that Britain gained a few territories, including Florida, good parts of the western...

They'd propably end up becoming successor states. Unless I'm very mistaken, the Bulgarians were still regarded as barbarians at this point, and I just can't see all unconquered Byzantine territories surrendering just because the Bulgarians took Constantinople.

1) the Ottomans didn't destroy them as a people - the Russians did. 2) the Ottomans or the Crimean Khanate would either absorb them or conquer them regardless, and the leader of the Crimean Goths would become nothing more than just another bey or amir within the Crimean Khanate. 3) they'd be...

I think that a surviving and fairly strong Byzantine Empire which controls the Black Sea would be a better bet. During the Comnenian period, the Byzantines did control several cities in the southern Crimea, and the Gothic principality of Theodoros was a vassal of the Byzantines. But after the...