Crusader Kingdom of Egypt

So would the crusaders expand west into Libya and Tunisia?

The Normans certainly made an effort in Tunisia, historically. I imagine that there would be efforts to push further, and those efforts would likely be stronger. There’d be enough different points of friction between Latin Christendom and the Maghreb-Andalusia continuum that they’d likely get nibbled away steadily enough. Particularly with adventurous knights looking more for glory than piety. However, I imagine you’d get a patchwork of small states in the early run, particularly as the locals adapt to their increasing isolation.
 
With a Christian Egypt and probably Iberia at this point, North Africa is quite screwed as it is surrounded on all sides.
 
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)?
 
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)?

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.
 
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.
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:

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In any case by the 13th century you already had the Mali Empire and the Kanem Empire, that while they didn't determine the dominance of Islam, they made it relatively solid in their own core territory at least and I have hard time seeing the Christian take over the Sahara routes even if they control North Africa.
 
If the Crusaders invade Egypt and meet with more success than the Fifth Crusade of OTL I would see Makuria grabbing a piece of Upper Egypt perhaps extending as far north as Qift (nee Coptos)
 
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)?

I think in the era of the Crusades the situation in West Africa was still quite fluid, with some societies being Islamic but others animist. The era of the Mali Empire (from the XIII century onward) was when Islam really became dominant across the region, I believe.
 
I think if the Egypt gambit worked, it would not go on to rule northern Africa, but similar Crusader states and attempts may succeed which failed historically.
 
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