Alternate dominant minorities

Mongols in India with a pod of a mongol conquest of India- culturally assimilated within a century, but restart the trade in goods and ideas that was so common a few centuries ago.

Tibetans after the Tibetan conquest of China.

Muslims in the Middle East in a pod where Umayyad discouraging of conversion to Islam holds out for longer.



Really though, the possibilities with this are endless, all you really need is any random social group to have some really good luck on the battlefield, and they can dominate massive chunks of conquered populations.

Something that could also be interesting is economic domination of Greeks especially Istanbul and surrounding areas Greeks over all other people in the Ottoman Empire.
 
Mass immigration from Asia to California during Spanish rule that later results in a region of western North America with a largely Asian population and European elite.

More protestants in Ireland result in protestant dominated united Irish state as opposed to partition.

United States never forms, southern states with slight black majority remain independent.

British initially settle Australia with Asians. White Anglo-Australians are notable and powerful minority.

Alaska becomes independent instead of being sold to the US. Also encourages settlement from Japan. Russian minority dominates native and east asian majority.

More Indian settlement in British Africa
 
Iran in particular is quite good ground for scenarios like this. With any sufficiently eventful PoD, you could have it be dominated, across multiple timeframes, by Scythians, Greeks (for longer than OTL at least), Yuezhi, Hephthalites, Gokturks, Mongol tribes, Uzbeks, Circassians, Ottoman Turks, Kurds, etc.
 
More successful Crusader states could see a generally Christian elite ruling over a Muslim general populace. I say “generally Christian” because the Crusaders were obviously a diverse group and their nobility intermarried extensively with each other. I saw a thread a few days back before I created my account about a successful Franco-Mongol Alliance with a POD butterflying the Massacre of the Latins and hence helping the Crusaders get better established when the Mongols come around. This would have a Graeco-Franco-Germano-Armenian/Italian nobility. But I don’t think you would even really need the Byzantines and Crusaders to cooperate more for a better Franco-Mongol alliance and possible squashing of the Mamluks. So maybe this would be coupled with a more successful Latin Empire, thus Franco-Italian elites ruling over Greeks and Turks in Anatolia, maybe?
 
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