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In this timeline,we want to examine a possible Tocharian or Iranian dynasty ruling Ancient China. Tocharians,as we know,lived in the Tarim basin and parts of what is today Kyrgyzstan. Iranian peoples were very widespread from Europe to Parts of China like Sogdia and Khotan. Mostly Scythian in the Iranian peoples. So think of a POD/AHC timeline when Tocharians establish a rule in China by amalgamating local cultures and widely settling there as they did in OTL for India as Kushans in which they were only semi successful in unifying. Repeat the same timeline for the Iranic Scythians. How would China look? A mix of Caucasian and Asians? Language? Culture? How would they interact with European countries westward? What about the Huns and the Mongols? If Tocharian and Iranian ruling class and settlers impose themselves as an empire over them,how would it go about? How would the modern era look like? How would religions look like?
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