AHC Orthodox christian Golden Horde

So here is the challenge find some way to get the Golden horde to convert to Orthodoxy instead of Islam like our timeline. So if the Golden horde does become Orthodox how would this affect Russian history and what would happen:confused:
 
That might be difficult. The only Christianity the Mongols seem to have seriously toyed with was Nestorian.

As for how it would effect history...well, the Mongols aren't Horrible Heathens, but they're still The Overlords.
 
That might be difficult. The only Christianity the Mongols seem to have seriously toyed with was Nestorian.
A Christianity with a better bureaucracy would have been more valuable to the Mongols. That's one reason Christianity declined relative to Islam in the west and Buddhism in the east. You have to come up with a way to make eastern Christianity in the region more robust. In RoS the Jurchen-Koreans use the Christian tribes as a buffer to eastern militant Buddhist rivals so they're getting state support (and thanks to alt-Spain they were a little stronger in the first place). It's going to end up being a weird version of course, but that's just how it goes.
 
In a previous timeline that I was planning to do (but then gave up) regarding the survival of the Byzantines, I had a few pre-main POD changes (it was supposed to be a multi-POD timeline) and one of them was how to prevent the Church of Persia from turning Nestorian. It's actually pretty simple. It won't mean there's no Nestorianism, just that there's no Nestorian Church. Now there will still be antagonism between the Roman (Byzantine) Church and the Persian Church and probably some cultural differences, but in the end the Christianity that gets spread in Asia is Orthodoxy and not Nestorianism. Now there only is the little problem of how to get Christianity to come up on top WITHIN the Golden Horde (instead of Islam).
 
If the Mongols take Constantinople, we might end up with at least one Horde converting to Orthodoxy. Their Khan might start calling himself the Emperor of the East sooner or later...
 
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