HueyLong
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Speculating madly ahead of things, an obvious question is whether/when/how Arabian Christianity might trigger Arab dynamism as Islam did in OTL. You could get a really different TL if Arab Christians take on Rome before Rome itself is christianized.![]()
-- Rick
Although Arabs will be a bit more dynamic earlier on and will be anti-Rome, they will simply be more influential in the post-Roman Middle East- they will not be the Germans pouring over the borders and all across the old Empire. There aren't enough of them at this time, for one thing.
But as said, Adelphic Christianity will be an example of a strong church developing outside of Rome, which did not happen in OTL without being subsumed by Roman groups or being marginalized by Islam.
I was refering to the sixth and seventh century.
My point was that it is a moot point here, as this is the first century AD. You did suggest a POD to end the rise of Islam, where there won't be an islam with a POD in the 1st century.
So is this basically Arabia's version of the Nasrani of India?
No, because unlike the Nasreni, they are going to be influential and will subsume earlier religions. They have no caste system to compete with, only a clan system that is pretty malleable. They have a weak pagan system that can, again, be easily absorbed. The Adelphics will be the power on the peninsula, unlike the marginal Nasreni.
This looks very interesting. Pretty wide open too.
Thanks, it is quite wide open. Mess with Christianity and mess with most of world history thereafter.