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What if, and how would it happen (and why), for the Abbasids to have a second golden age? Or at least a Silver Age, allowing them to be in slightly better shape as a polity and as a society when the Mongolians move into the area (or would this drive the Mongolians off, as they see India as being the weaker path to take from Persia/Central Asia?)

Short-term effects; ?
Long-term effects; possibly more scientific, more 'advanced' species?
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