Albert.Nik
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The later Central Asian origin Empires we know are Seljuk Empire,Ottomon Empire,Mongol Empire in Europe and West Asia and Timurids,Turkic Sultanate and Mughal Empire in the East in India and surroundings. These were overwhelmingly Turko-Mongol Empires. So in this ATL,we need Tocharians or Iranian peoples to assimilate the Turks and Mongols rather than the other way round as in ATL and then begin their expansion with Islam or an equivalent Monotheistic religion. Racially,culturally and linguistically,they remain Indo-European but little markers of assimilating East Asian originating Turko-Mongols.Just vice versa of OTL .In this ATL too,they expand till the borders of Persian,Byzantine and Arab Caliphates in their Golden Age and other groups who go East penetrate India and establish strong empires there just as in ATL.
Now where the WI would come in would be that these peoples were far more settled and advanced than the Huns and the Mongols whose descendants were those who established empires OTL. So how would this Seljuk(Yuezhi empire let's say in this ATL) equivalent do in the West with Persians,Greeks,Armenians and Arab golden age empires? Would they save the Arab Golden age empires and the Byzantine Empires in their Golden ages rather than destroying them? How would Anatolia look like? Would it be a Tocharian,Iranian majority and signficant Greek,Isuarian,Celtic(Galatian),Caucasian Christian and Armenian orthodox Christian minority in this ATL rather than being crippled in OTL? How would the Byzantine Empire do,anyway? How would Greece look like? A more peaceful and affluent Balkans,Russia and Eastern Europe? What about Hungary and the Late Roman Empire? Germanic peoples still need to flee towards the West into the Roman Empire? Could Celts establish an empire in the West in this Vacuum?
Now let's go to India.
How would their Empires,settlements and conquests look like,which they inevitably would since all Central Asian peoples poured into India due to geography? How would Geo politics in South Asia and outside look with a Tocharian/Iranian India and the same peoples dominating Anatolia,Levant(parts),Central Asia,parts of Iran,Afghanistan and even parts of Persia? How would Slavs and Kievan Rus do?
Now coming to the modern eras,how would British,Dutch and French superpowers do? Would Byzantine Balkans(who would be part Slavic and Romanian as well as Tocharian and Iranian converts go Byzantine Church along with Greeks) be an another superpower added? What about Papal states and HRE? North Africa? Reconquest of Spain? European colonization of USA and other American regions? How would all these go about? How would USA,Canada and Australia be established relationships with or establish relations with the Tocharian and Iranian States who are in large numbers in South Asia and parts of Middle East(consider they follow a form of Islam or some Monotheistic religion). How far would Arab and European golden ages go without being destroyed? Would we be significantly ahead?
Now where the WI would come in would be that these peoples were far more settled and advanced than the Huns and the Mongols whose descendants were those who established empires OTL. So how would this Seljuk(Yuezhi empire let's say in this ATL) equivalent do in the West with Persians,Greeks,Armenians and Arab golden age empires? Would they save the Arab Golden age empires and the Byzantine Empires in their Golden ages rather than destroying them? How would Anatolia look like? Would it be a Tocharian,Iranian majority and signficant Greek,Isuarian,Celtic(Galatian),Caucasian Christian and Armenian orthodox Christian minority in this ATL rather than being crippled in OTL? How would the Byzantine Empire do,anyway? How would Greece look like? A more peaceful and affluent Balkans,Russia and Eastern Europe? What about Hungary and the Late Roman Empire? Germanic peoples still need to flee towards the West into the Roman Empire? Could Celts establish an empire in the West in this Vacuum?
Now let's go to India.
How would their Empires,settlements and conquests look like,which they inevitably would since all Central Asian peoples poured into India due to geography? How would Geo politics in South Asia and outside look with a Tocharian/Iranian India and the same peoples dominating Anatolia,Levant(parts),Central Asia,parts of Iran,Afghanistan and even parts of Persia? How would Slavs and Kievan Rus do?
Now coming to the modern eras,how would British,Dutch and French superpowers do? Would Byzantine Balkans(who would be part Slavic and Romanian as well as Tocharian and Iranian converts go Byzantine Church along with Greeks) be an another superpower added? What about Papal states and HRE? North Africa? Reconquest of Spain? European colonization of USA and other American regions? How would all these go about? How would USA,Canada and Australia be established relationships with or establish relations with the Tocharian and Iranian States who are in large numbers in South Asia and parts of Middle East(consider they follow a form of Islam or some Monotheistic religion). How far would Arab and European golden ages go without being destroyed? Would we be significantly ahead?