Dawn Of The Heathens

ok so as you guys know this is going to be a Viking Timeline so if you want feel free to help me. So the differences are going to be that the vikings have a much larger population an axial age religion(still the same religion but just allows for vikingization?) and they quite litteraly do to Europe what the arabs did to the middle east.
I am going to start this Ah in the late 600s to the early 700ish with a much earlier Viking exploration and expansion.
 
The Viking Longship was probably invented between 780 and 792 (between youngest found unsailed ship and the raid on Lindisfarne). I've heard the first raids were partly tied to the Danish response to Charlemagne's conquest/violent Christization of Saxony.

ATL, I'd invent the Longship a couple decades earlier and make the earlier raids more explicitly anti Christian. Burn the Monasteries and make it the customary thing to do.

This lessons the ties between the elite and monks, making them a little less Christian. A heathen understanding that Christianization is a threat along with fewer ties between the elite to the Monks mean once conquered, the population is more open to Vikingization.
 
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627 After King Edwin's assistant Harald Auber heard of the foul conversion of the fake King Edwin from the true path, the following of the Gods to some new christian religion, he decides that the germans who were converted to the blasphemous christian religion must be stopped. He decided to contact his brother Bodil Auber who was working on a prototype of a new ship that would reportedly be able to sail across oceans and through freshwater. He also realized that for abandoning the Gods Edwin must die and he must take over Northumbria
628 Harald plans were kept according to the letter. He forced Edwin to make him the next emperor and to suicide and publicly reject Christianity and follow the old Gods again. As he is now emperor he has banned Christianity and all other religions in the area. He has plans to now take over most of Britain. Meanwhile in Scandanavia the population boom goes more than 10 times Otl so in 628 it is already twice ours. Also Bodil Auber has taken over the southern Scandanavian kingdom of denmark. He plannes to expand the kingdom into more of saxony. He also decides for more people to accept the gods he must make it easier. He reforms the religiont by Ranming it to Var tro and only having two afterlifes, a "hell" which s basically like a prison and after you serve your sentence you go free and heaven the opposite, once you are free you are reborn into any life the better depending on whare you went. If you get heaven 3 times in a row you could be reborn as a god/goddess/demigod. He also creates an organized preisthood and Temples. He unfotunatly eliminates Ragnarok and allows absorbtion of foreign gods but like this

divine hierarchy
Odin
Other Germanic Gods
Other Gods Greek Muslim Etc
Great Preist
Priest
Human

Map of Europe in 628
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Light Blue-Byzantines
Blue Danish empire
Dark Grey Kigdom of the seuvi
Brown saxon residences
red Frankish kingdoms
purple-lombards
green britons and irish
violet-anglo saxons
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629-650 Harald keeps expanding the Northumbrian kingdom up into the territory of the scots and britons and down into the angol-saxon territory. The Arab empire takes over egypt parts of persia and north africa and Alfred Corpus takes over parts of saxony and creates the Saxon Empire. The Lombards penetrate father into Italy and the Franks farther into france.

657 The Alfred Corpus has received a message from Clovis 2, that he and all his subjects convert to christianity immediatly or die. He rejects this offer and The Frankish empire declares war. Meanwhile in The lombard empire the ruler converts to christianity. Meanwhile in Ireland scotland and the southern england has converted the last hope for pagans is in Northumbria. However this is because Var tro has not left denmark yet. In germany christian frankish missionaries seem intent on converting people from their Germanic polytheism and even in the Saxon empire christianity is at 32% of the population. Because of this Alfred bans Christianity and christian missionaries but this causes a violent backlash.
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660-750 The Umayyad caliphate takes over north africa but in spain things got a little harder as once the takeover was over the royal Treasury was empty due to the fact that the franks also tried to make gains from the dead visogoths.. The Caliphs actively discouraged their subjects from converting so much the islamic population of the empire was as shown
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Green-Islam Purple Christianity Pink Zoroastrianism Grey-Hinduism Blue-Paganism

In addition the Christian Population of the Saxon empire grew to the majority and a Christian emperor ascended to the throne, This new emperor is extremely lenient and does not persecute Pagans. Var Tro creeps into Northern Germany and this Christian Emperor seeing that it would server both populations converts his kingdom to it more than 70% convert and the Saxon Emperor allies itself with Denmark. Meanwhile Denmark separates and creates the vassal states of Norway and Sweden who taking advantage of Scandinavia's population boom start to attack west. The Bulgars attack Byzantium who under the lomabard and Arab attack hold on to sardina only because no one wants to take it. While doing this Northumbria expands into other parts of Britain and Denmark sets up colonies in the east. Also beacuse of its massive population Germany asks Denmark to help it against France and the Frankish empire recedes. Denmark takes over the Mediterranean as the Danish royal navy protected by The Saxon empire attacks Italy Greece and Crete, France England and the black sea. Norway takes over Iceland. France starts rapidly converting to Var Tro and the emperor starts persecuting them so much that the break away and join the Saxon empire. While going to persia to raid a group of vikings witness the battle of talas and travel back to the chinese Capital.

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Blue-danish trading colonies
Indigo-sweden
light blue -norway

also religious map
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Electrc blue-var tro
purple christianity
blue-Assorted pagan beleifs
grey-judaism
grey-blue-hinduism
 
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