AHC: Wank Oman

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As it says on the tin. Oman has at several points been regarded as the Muslim Portugal, with at one point its own colonial empire and influence in the Indian ocean. Sadly for them, that was all undone in the past 3 centuries.

So, your challenge is to make Oman's performance better and make the country stronger. Make them a major colonial power if you can. Or a great power. Just much better than OTL.
 
For the record it was actually Muscat, not Oman, that had the colonial empire. Oman was an immamate that was completely landlocked.

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They joined together in 1820 to form Muscat and Oman.

Anyway, the easiest way to keep Oman's empire strong would be to give it a friendlier relationship with Britain and the Dutch who were less pious than Portugal.

It needs some serious reforms as well. Oman, like the rest of the Islamic world, fell far behind Europe technologically and politically. Oman is still behind actually..
 
You need to prevent succession crisis in 1856 which divided the empire between Zanzibar and peninsula Oman. Of course that doesn't prevent the underlying problems of Oman, it needs to make several technological and domestic reforms for it to survive. Maybe an earlier independence from the Ottomans and Portuguese? An alliance with the Dutch during the war with Portugal could go a long way to Omani Success.
 
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