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I'm sure most of you have read the years of rice and salt- a big disease comes along and wipes out all the white people. Oh deer.
Now....WI the exact same thing happens but in reverse...
That is- a big disease comes along in the late 14th century and wipes out (almost) all the orientals. China, Indo-China, the Phillipines, Indonesia, Korea and Japan are cleansed of practically everyone. We can assume Mongolia and the like would survive largely intact due to being so sparsely inhabited.

Obviously this opens a lot of space and the Indians are the ones immediately next door...The Steppe people being small in number. Does Islam come to dominate through this? Or does it stregthen the hindus? Effects of the trade with the east being majorly damaged?
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