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In this AHC,the challenge you have is to have an Age of Enlightenment as it happened in Christian Europe starting from the 17th century in the Middle Eastern Islamic lands too. My range is from Anatolia to Persia to Central Asia till where Islam is dominant. Age of Enlightenment is a time when Secularism and Pure Rational philosophies developed and came to rule. Subsequently,it led to Democracies being dominant in the Western World and Human rights rising to new heights compared to the rest of the World. How would this affect various developments of that age to this day? How different would the Middle East look? How would the colonial era look like? How would this affect the developments of Science,modern Nations,etc in all parts of the globe? You can go as behind as you want for a POD,no limits on that. Ethnicity Demographic changes should be limited within 15% of OTL but timelines involving conquests are allowed if this 15% condition is satisfied.
Now what is not allowed in this thread is:
Slandering other cultures,nations,religions and people.
Contempt towards any people,religion or culture.
Unnecessarily slandering Christianity or Judaism or Islam(criticize some aspects of you want but no slandering).
Slandering or abusing people of any region,be it Europe or ME or their descendants.
Slandering Secularism,Atheism,Agnosticism and Deism.
Slandering Rationalism and Science values from a religious or a cultural viewpoint.
Slandering Human rights.
Arguments and debates should be gentle and don't use any strong language against anyone.
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