Arab Conquests Without Islam

do you what languages were dominant in what is now algeria,morocco,libya,tunisia before arabic
The Romance and Berber language families. Romance was of course descend form Latin introduced by the Romans. The Berber family seems to have been indigenous as far as we can tell.
 
do you what languages were dominant in what is now algeria,morocco,libya,tunisia before arabic

Depends where you were. The countryside spoke mainly various Berber languages, but the cities mainly spoke Latin-derived languages. The Punic language was also spoken in the region and did not die out until after the Arab conquest. Modern Tunisia appears to have been especially Romanised.
 
Don't know if it is possible. Islam was actually the factor that made them expand á la OTL.

I can see the East-Roman Empire recruit bedouins from the Hijaz and Nejd as allies against the Sassanids, like the Germanic tribes with the Western Empire against the Huns. And then just do their own thing in the Levant, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Egypt as independent kingdoms. Most likely to turn Christian then.
 
how long would the byzantine & sassanid empires have lasted without the arab conquests
Forever? Well not politically or in a dynastic sense, (I think the Sassanids doomed to be overthrown by somebody) but their cultures would continue. Not that a steppe empire like the Mongols couldn't throw a spanner into the works though!

We should avoid getting off-topic. If you have more questions consider making a new thread for them.
 
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