So would the crusaders expand west into Libya and Tunisia?
Makes me wonder if the west African empires will start adopting Christianity.With a Christian Egypt and probably Iberia at this point, North Africa is quite screwed as it is surrounded on all sides.
Too late for that I think, although it would be interesting to see how those empires and communities would develop if North Africa becomes politically Christian in the high middle ages. Insular but sturdy like Ethiopia, crumbling like Nubia or would the native religions fight back(I don't know enough about West Africa to say)?Makes me wonder if the west African empires will start adopting Christianity.
Too late for that I think, although it would be interesting to see how those empires and communities would develop if North Africa becomes politically Christian in the high middle ages. Insular but sturdy like Ethiopia, crumbling like Nubia or would the native religions fight back(I don't know enough about West Africa to say)?
Islam is the religion of between 2/3 and 3/4 of West Africans today, it's pretty dominant and it's present more than just the edjes of the Sahara:Why? Western Africa today is pretty Christian. If you look at a religious map of Africa, Islam has a thin strip just south of the Sahara, and pretty much from that point south, Christianity is the majority all the way to the Cape. Obviously, thats the influence of European Colonialism, but consider how little time Europeans were colonizing Africa.
Too late for that I think, although it would be interesting to see how those empires and communities would develop if North Africa becomes politically Christian in the high middle ages. Insular but sturdy like Ethiopia, crumbling like Nubia or would the native religions fight back(I don't know enough about West Africa to say)?