Okay, so, as I understand it, and feel free to correct me, the MAIN reason a lot of the stuff that happened in the Age of Exploration happened is because Europeans were trying to find an alternate route to the spices and other goods of India, China, Etc. that WASN'T controlled by extremely hostile Muslims.
So, say Byzantium survives, for whatever reason. It controls it's Greek territories, and the entirety of Anatolia.
Persia is still controlled by any given Muslim state, though, and you also have the Islamic states in India. The rest of the Middle East will be more or less as OTL.
How easier does this make for Europeans to access the Indian spices and other resources? Easy enough to make them not discover the Americas, at least not for another half century or century or so?
If it doesn't affect the ease of getting Indian trade at all, what is needed to make things easy for Europeans to get Indian trade? Access to the Red Sea? Or maybe access to the Persian Gulf?
So, say Byzantium survives, for whatever reason. It controls it's Greek territories, and the entirety of Anatolia.
Persia is still controlled by any given Muslim state, though, and you also have the Islamic states in India. The rest of the Middle East will be more or less as OTL.
How easier does this make for Europeans to access the Indian spices and other resources? Easy enough to make them not discover the Americas, at least not for another half century or century or so?
If it doesn't affect the ease of getting Indian trade at all, what is needed to make things easy for Europeans to get Indian trade? Access to the Red Sea? Or maybe access to the Persian Gulf?