I've had an idea for another alternate timeline and I'm just trying to get some ideas as to what to do with it.
Say, POD is the Battle of Yarmouk. What circumstances would there have to be for any of the following to happen?:
* The Ghassanid Kingdom and Kingdom of Axum expanding into western Arabia with Byzantine support (not necessarily military). BTW, what sort of Christianity did the Ghassanids follow?
* A resurgent Lakhmid dynasty overthrowing the Muslim Arabs in Mesopotamia and establishing a new Nestorian Christian state.
* Islam, as a majority religion, being largely confined to the Hedjaz or the southern Arabian coast. Or perhaps, depending on how far the Arab conquest of the Sassanids is by this POD, surviving as a minority in roughly modern-day Azerbaijan?
* Egypt and the Exarchate of Africa eventually seceding from Constantinople under a their own ruling classes.
* The Sassanid dynasty being overthrown and replaced by either another native Persian dynasty, or the Iranian plateau being conquered by a Turkic tribe like the Oghuz.
I'm just looking for some opinions on any of the above ideas and their consequences.
Say, POD is the Battle of Yarmouk. What circumstances would there have to be for any of the following to happen?:
* The Ghassanid Kingdom and Kingdom of Axum expanding into western Arabia with Byzantine support (not necessarily military). BTW, what sort of Christianity did the Ghassanids follow?
* A resurgent Lakhmid dynasty overthrowing the Muslim Arabs in Mesopotamia and establishing a new Nestorian Christian state.
* Islam, as a majority religion, being largely confined to the Hedjaz or the southern Arabian coast. Or perhaps, depending on how far the Arab conquest of the Sassanids is by this POD, surviving as a minority in roughly modern-day Azerbaijan?
* Egypt and the Exarchate of Africa eventually seceding from Constantinople under a their own ruling classes.
* The Sassanid dynasty being overthrown and replaced by either another native Persian dynasty, or the Iranian plateau being conquered by a Turkic tribe like the Oghuz.
I'm just looking for some opinions on any of the above ideas and their consequences.
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