a question about plausibility

I'm not sure where exactly to put this, I guess before 1900 is a better place than any other. if this needs to be moved, feel free to do so.


now, here is my question:

I am writing a TL which has a POD in the late 9th century, which eventually leads to a Khazar resurgence in the early 900s. after successfully defeating the Pechenegs (won't get into the details here) they manage to reassert their dominance of the Pontic steps.
okay, so I haven't asked the question yet, my bad. so at one point the Khazars dominated the Oghuz turks in west Transoxiana, but presumably after the decline of the Khazars, the Oghuz broke their subservience and went on a conquering spree in the middle east.
so would you consider it implausible if the Khazars manage to force the Oghuz Turks to pay tribute to them again before Seljuk, and more of the Turks in Transoxiana besides... and this leads to no Seljuks? or is that too ASB?
would it be better if in my TL I had the Seljuks expand as IOTL, or would this be [semi]-believable?

feedback would be great, I'd like some input before settling on what to write next.
 

Philip

Donor
Since your POD is roughly 100 years before the Seljuks split from their parent confederation, there is no reason to expect that they would have the same expansion as OTL. However, given the state of things in central Asia at the time, it seems likely that some group of Turks is going to expand. Perhaps they don't go the same direction or as far, but I don't think you can just write them off.
 
Since your POD is roughly 100 years before the Seljuks split from their parent confederation, there is no reason to expect that they would have the same expansion as OTL. However, given the state of things in central Asia at the time, it seems likely that some group of Turks is going to expand. Perhaps they don't go the same direction or as far, but I don't think you can just write them off.

yeah, now that I think about it I probably won't have the turks be just written off. anyone have any ideas about what the Turks could do? I had a few ideas:

they invade Khazaria ala the Pechenegs and Cumans (the former in TTL were defeated and assimilated, the latter conquered much of the Khaganate before being defeated) and go on a rampage on the pontic step and Russia.

another idea, some clan / tribe of Turks try to build a Gokturk-like state, uniting many of the Turkish tribes in central asia under a massive but unstable Khagante.

any other ideas as to what they could do, or whether either of those ideas are plausible?
 
I hate to bump my own thread, but I was really hoping to get a little bit more input than just one response... :(
 
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