AHC: Make Europe as Germanic as possible.

I doubt the former. The scenario completely upsets the history of the Mediterranean before 450. Even if that didn't butterfly away Muhammed (and it would), it would almost certainly do so to the situation in Arabia that allowed his unification campaign. And even if a prophet appears to lead the Allah-worshippers to conquest of Arabia, the odds would be enormously against it occurring at an identical moment of vulnerability for the adjacent empires. If Islam had appeared fifty years earlier or later it would likely have bounced off its neighbors without making a dent.

What might be interesting would be exploring a more "German" migration period for the Arabs. The Persia and/or the post-Rome are likely to exhaust themselves at some point, and Arabs had been migrating into their territories for centuries. Less organized Arab invasions could have broken off many provinces in a more typical barbarian migration period. More like the Aramaeans before them.
i didn't think that islamic conquest were still very possible, i just said it'd be cool to see some Germanic languages (influenced by African and Arabian languages) in an Arabic alphabet.
 
i didn't think that islamic conquest were still very possible, i just said it'd be cool to see some Germanic languages (influenced by African and Arabian languages) in an Arabic alphabet.

Ah. Granted.

I did really enjoy that timeline, though it's a bit off as it stands. It's fine as far as it goes, but in hindsight it's absurd not to address what would have to be going on within the Empire. There'd need to be a very particular sort of events in Rome to create the requisite power vacuum.
 

Titus_Pullo

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With a POD after the Birth of Christ, make Europe as culturally Germanic as possible.

Can the Gothic Kingdoms in South-Western Europe last longer and Germanify Hispania and Italy?

Can France remain Frankish?

Can modern-day Russia be Teutonic?


Hard to do, since someone already stated the Germanic conquerors were a tiny elite and they generally did not to intermarry with the local population. Infact the Goths, the Franks the Lombards made laws banning intemarriages between thesmelves and the locals.
 
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