AHC: Save Constantinople

No Battle of Manzikert. [No Turks in Asia Minor]

Osman dies in childhood. [Ottomans never take Constantinople, maybe someone else does.]

A butterfly flaps its wings in Galatia sometime during the reign of Antiokhos Megas and throws off the ascendency of Rome. [There's never a Constantinople, likely, so we saved it from the Turks, and quite possibly from the concept of Turks.]

The "cradle of civilization" around the Tigris and Euphrates never develops. [The entire course of civilization is thrown off and delayed by a few millennia. No Constantinople, no Turks, everyone's safe.]

That was easy.
 

Zlorfik

Banned
Serbians under Dušan expand much further into Greece, seizing most of it. The Tsar goes out of his way to learn Greek and to incorporate local elites, then marries a byzantine princess, claims the eastern roman crown, and lures elites in Constantinople over to his side with promises of lands and gold, as well as deliverance from the Ottoman threat.

He besieges the dilapidated place; his new allies on the inside unlock a gate and let his forces in. He declares a new Empire of the Romans and Serbs, and rules thereafter from Constantine's city. His successors, increasingly Greek in genetics and habitude, gain acceptance from the locals as their saviours.
 
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