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Besides that Aegyptos has Risen ATL (which is currently in hibernation), I can't seem to find many 7th century TLs concerning the growth of Islam. So what if Islam was never created? What if Muhammad was unable to ever make Islam prominent by either being killed early in life or by being sold into slavery and becoming a Christian monk?

or

What if in 602, Maurice, even though bankrupt, did not decree that the army should stay for winter beyond the Danube
after a successful Avar campaign, preventing a mutiny that would get Maurice and his family killed by Phocas, preventing Shah Khosrau II from declaring that long, inconclusive war against Phocas for murdering his patron that would cause the rise of Islam? Also, you could possibly get an independent Egypt that way, since Maurice wanted to divide his empire upon death between his six sons.

What do you guys think?
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