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  1. Best country to wank

    The Mongols - even after Genghis Khan, they could have expanded a good bit further than they did in OTL. I mean, if you prevent Berke Khan from becoming khan of the Golden Horde, you'd butterfly away the war he started with the Il-Khanate, and that would result in the Mongol position in the...

  2. Just how close was the Muslim Conquest a failure?

    The Mongol conquest of Iraq was far easier than you make it out to be. Whilst Iraq required a major campaign and was by no means an easy conquest, its fate was pretty much sealed with the defeat of the Kharezmians under Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that one...

  3. Battle of Ain Jalut

    The moment that the common enemy, i.e. Islam, has been crushed and the Roman Catholics are in a pretty strong position of power over the Nestorians and other non-Catholic Christians within the Il-Khanate. I.e. propably never. .. You're greatly overestimating the religious fanaticism of...

  4. Battle of Ain Jalut

    Couldn't have said it better myself. But even then, a Maghrebi empire that conquers Egypt and moves its capital there is still something very different from an Egyptian state that conquers the Maghreb. What's more; the Fatimids actually lost control of most of North Africa only decades...

  5. Battle of Ain Jalut

    ...not to mention the fact that the few cities in the Hijaz worth conquering are actually much easier to reach via the sea from Egypt or Yemen - both of which are still firmly in Muslim hands in aforementioned the scenario. In short: no on all counts. Exactly what reason would a...

  6. Battle of Ain Jalut

    Exactly what happens afterwards depends on the POD that caused the Mongol victory. The main cause of the conflict between the Mongols and the local Crusaders was that a Crusader baron in Tyre basically said "I don't care what Bohemund of Antioch says, screw those heathen Mongols!", got the...

  7. A New New World

    I beg to differ on this one; there's another, relatively recent, theory that suggests that humans, or rather, their dogs, ticks and flees, introduced a number of diseases in the New World and Australia - diseases to which the native animals did not have any natural resistance. And there's...

  8. AH challange: Make the Byzantine empire last until at least the 17th century

    ...do you even actually know anything about the Turks that the Byzantines were dealing with in the 11th and 12th centuries? All it takes to protect Byzantium from the Seljuks, is making sure that Basil II is succeeded by emperors who do not completely and utterly neglect the army and defenses...

  9. What if Mohammed existed & unified people, without Islam?

    I have to disagree with some of your points - given the right circumstances, it is actually far more likely that the Arabs take over Egypt than that they manage to conquer the Persian heartland. The majority of the Egyptians and Syrians were Miaphysites who were more or less persecuted by the...

  10. Islam Nonexistant - What Religious Effects?

    Weren't the Tocharians a Buddhist Indo-European people? But anyway, there actually were Manichean Turks IOTL - the Uyghurs converted to Manicheism. I'm not sure wether the conversion of the Uyghurs happened before or shortly after the rise of Islam, but we could certainly see something...

  11. Islam Nonexistant - What Religious Effects?

    To by quite honest, I don't think that the majority of the Kurds even were Zoroastrian around this time. There were a few other Iranian peoples in the area (like the Deylamites, who lived in what's now southern Iranian Azerbaijan) who weren't converted to Zoroastrianism until a few centuries...

  12. European race-mixing in Africa similar to Latin America?

    At least in southern Africa, the numbers of blacks aren't neccesarily a problem, depending on the POD you use. The main reason why the native population levels increased as much as they did in OTL, was the introduction of corn - ever since the introduction of corn, it has been the most...

  13. WI: Timur spares the Golden Horde

    Not going to happen - see below. Agreed - and even if Toqtamish manages to keep the Golden Horde together, the whole thing still is very likely to fall apart under his successors. Aside from the fact that the Golden Horde has never been a properly unified state (the division between the...

  14. 5 Most Vicious Civilizations

    Some nobles converted fairly quickly, but at least during the Umayyad period, most didn't, as the Umayyad system allowed the old nobility and upper class to retain their position. In some cases, the landed gentry and other lesser nobles became even more powerful than they were under the...

  15. Greatest General in History?

    Let's see... Well, among the non-European generals, Subodei/Subetei and Chepe/Jepe certainly deserve to be mentioned, and I'd also add Chormagan to that list. Chormagan was another one of Genghis Khan's generals, and he was responsible for the consolidation of Persia, the conquest of Anatolia...

  16. Why the Balkans was never Turkified

    Indeed - after the Seljuk conquest of Anatolia, there were also plenty of Persians and Arabs among the Muslims who emigrated to the recently conquered territories. And there was another major influx of Turkic tribes into Anatolia during the Mongol age - even during five or six centuries of...

  17. Karnate of Europe 1278

    There's another problem, though; pasture. The conquest of the Caucasus was still relatively easy thanks to the fact that it was right next to the Mughan Plain, a large plain in Azerbaijan that had enough pasture to support a few tens of thousands of Mongol warriors, their families, and the...

  18. Karnate of Europe 1278

    Terrain and climate did matter, though - in spite of one or two attempts, the Mongols never reached, let alone conquered, Novgorod, which was largely thanks to the vast forests and marshes that surrounded the city. That said, the leaders of Novgorod decided not to push their luck, and were...

  19. Karnate of Europe 1278

    Yes, because the Europeans are obviously not going to learn from that mistake after dozens of armies have been routed. :rolleyes: It's more likely that, if the Mongols would invade Germany and the Alps, we'd see something similar to what happened when the Mongols invaded the Caucasus under...

  20. Zoroastrian Persia

    Well, for one, making sure that Khusrau II is succeeded by a strong leader who manages to reign for at least a decade or so without getting killed or deposed. With less of the civil wars and general anarchy that wrecked Persia after the death of Khusrau, the Sassanids will be able to fight...
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