With a POD after 700 AD, could we have Western Europe divided between a Norse Confederacy and a Caliphate of Rome?
I'll have to agree with Carlton, the norse don't have the motivation.
Islam wank is always possible though. Or a christianity retreats north TL where the norse are the only remaining christians![]()
Imagine "crusader vikings"...![]()
Imagine "crusader vikings"...![]()
Endurtakan, (Reconquista in old norse)
Well, if they would preserve the existence of the identity of the Roman Catholic Church, instead of developing their own brand of church...![]()
With a POD after 700 AD, could we have Western Europe divided between a Norse Confederacy and a Caliphate of Rome?
Well, if they would preserve the existence of the identity of the Roman Catholic Church, instead of developing their own brand of church...![]()
No.
Rome is a bad place for a caliphal residence given its religious significance to the majority of the people of Europe, and with all due respect to the Norse pagans, they ain't got what it takes to stop the missionaries.
Also for the purposes of this challenge it cannot be a Muslim state...That said, the challenge didn't specify that this Norse confederacy had to be pagan - just that it couldn't be a Latin Christian state.
With a POD after 700 AD, could we have Western Europe divided between a Norse Confederacy and a Caliphate of Rome?
Interesting this POD would or could mean the (East) Saxons and Frisians would stay pagan (for at least a century more), they would make a nice buffer or vasal for the danish kings. But that we need is some kind of secular centralification of the Pagan germanic kingdoms, to make christianity less interesting for the local kings.