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What if Suleiman I died in late 1520 or early 1521 (right before his campaign against Hungary)? The reason of death could be either an accident, poisoning or a sudden illness, anything. Around that time, the Ottoman Empire had no obvious adult (or even adolescent) heir(s), AFAIK. Suleiman had...

I was wondering about this idea for a long time now: What if nomads of central asia (turks and mongols) kept their traditional faith and never converted to islam and buddhism? Your challenge is to make this happen. And if you manage to do this, how do you think this will affect the history of...

Today most Mongolic languages are found in and around Mongolia proper, with the one major exception being Kalmyk with a few others. In total, they have roughly 7 million speakers. The Turkic languages are spread out as far west as Thrace, as far west as central China, and even stretching north...

Hello Everyone. how are you today? This challenge came to my mind as I was reading the History of Mamluks(Kölemen State/Ed-Devletüt-Türkiyye) of Egypt. I thought what if Mamluks were not as Arabized or held a disdain of Arabs due to their slave status and once came to power tried to Un-Arabize...

Osman I was the founder of the Ottoman Empire and managed to keep it together, allowing for its conquest of Constantinople over 100 years after his death. But what if he died as a child, never founding the Ottoman Empire. What would be the impacts, who would conquer Constantinople, how much...

The House of Osman managed to survive and thrive for a remarkably long time. Lasting from 1299 to 1923, and ruling from Algeria to Iraq, and Hungary to Yemen at its peak. Of course like all empires they eventually went into stagnation and then decline in the 18th and 19th centuries. However...

can Seljuks destroy Sasanian Empire ? how would this affect history can Seljuks destroy Sasanian Empire ? third temple? please answer the questions and like and the share the post

can Khazar proselytizism convert Turks to Judiasm since Islam is not and Zoroastrians don't proselytize ? how would this affect history please answer the questions and like and the share the post

So Cody made a new video let's talk about it he says some things I agree with and some that I don't For one he doesn't state a pod he just says post Arab invasion to pre seljuk ( and he does say settled down ) so I assume 717 to 11th century said that the Turkish migrations would have made a...

Introduction: The Komnenos dynasty presided over an era of prosperity for the Byzantine Empire known as the Komnenian Restoration. Their overthrow led to the rise of the incompetent house of Angelos, which failed to stop the Turks, Bulgarians, and Crusaders, and Isaac II Angelos' Latin-backed...

Your challenge is to have the majority of the Turkic peoples be Zoroastrian.

Part One: The Young King Above: Padshah Babur of the Timurid Empire In the year 1504, the city of Samarkand was won back by a joint force of the Timurid and Safavid empires, who had successfully defeated the Shaybanids. The leader of these Timurids, a young man named Babur, literally meaning...

In a scenario where either the 4th Crusade was never launched or went to Egypt as originally planned, how would the Byzantine/Rhomanian Empire develop? What are the long-term prospects of their survival without the Fourth Crusade breaking the empire's back? How long does the Angeloi rule over...

In a scenario where the Ottoman Empire never existed (say Osman died before he could become leader of the Turkish group which became the Ottomans or his group got wiped out early on), how would Anatolia develop? Could any other Turkish beyliks have filled the role of the Ottoman Empire? Could...

With a PoD anywhere between 1900 and 1918, how can enough of the right strings be pulled so that the Ottoman Empire, not Russia (or maybe also them), becomes the stage of a socialist revolution in the early 20th century? One condition must be that this new "Ottoman USSR" holds on to Kurdistan...

The Battle of the Defile (731 AD, 109 AH) was a military engagement between forces of the Umayyad Caliphate, led by the governor of Khorasan, and forces of the Turgesh Khaganate, led by the warlord Suluk, who had, since ten years earlier, been raiding and ravaging Transoxiana after kicking the...

During the 11th and early 12th centuries, what if Bohemond, or other Norman adventurers who had ambitions to conquer land from the Byzantine Empire, decided to side with the Seljuk Turk empire, possibly converting to Islam, in their attempt to acquire fiefdoms? How would it turn out? Would this...

The Seljuk Turks took Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert and it was partially recovered by the Komnenoi. This recovery stagnated after the Komnenoi were deposed. Let's say a new emperor comes along in the 1200's and retakes Anatolia. In this POD the Venetians fail in taking Constantinople...

With a POD after 1000 AD, find a way for Anatolia to become ethno-linguistically and culturally Turkic. Bonus points if you could get said Turkic Anatolia to control an empire which controls the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa after destroy the Rhomanian Empire as well.

What would the ramifications be of the Arabization of Asia Minor? Could the Ottoman Empire have survived?