DBWI: No Genghisid Dynasties in France, Germany, or Italy?

Basically just what the header says. It's hard to imagine a world where the Mongols didn't invade and conquer Western Europe just as they did in many other parts of the world. This region became the bastion of Mongol Cultural, Economic, and Military might even as it faded in Asia. These Kingdoms just seemed to know how adopt traits from their new homes and merge them with ideas and technologies brought from the steppe. Even today In Europe it's not uncommon to hear men and women from noble families boast about having Genghis Khan as an ancestor. The ruler of Greater Flanders is still referred to as Kagan and there was a Khanate on the Rhine even if just a shadow of its former power up until Napoleon's Invasion in the early 1800's. It's probably impossible to spare places like Poland, Hungary, and Russia from being overwhelmed but what does a world without long standing Euro-Mongolic tradition even look like? Is this too ASB? Love to hear some thoughts.
 
Well, Islam probably wouldn't have spread further into Europe for starters.
Don't forget Nestorianism. Nestorianism to this day is the creed held by the majority of Europe's Churches. The Roman Church schismed over accepting Nestorianism in the 14th century with the Hispanian Catholic Church rejecting Nestorianism in favour of Chalcedonianism, escaping to Hispania. The Papal seat was then reestablished in exile at Cordoba.
 
Jeez now I feel like a dummy not even thinking of the religious ramifications. It's really unlikely Tengriism enters Europe without the Mongol Conquests. The way it spread and fused with the remaining pagan groups in Lithuania, Scandinavia, and those high mountain communities all over. Definitely a minority religion but when it reached the New World spread by wandering Shamans it really caught on and syncretised with the traditions and faiths of the natives, especially among the Plains Nations. This is also how the horse spread among the tribes too as these shamans often rode between communities sometimes using extra mounts to carry goods. Horses would escape into the wild or be traded.
 
And Orthodox Christianity similar to the Greek Rite. I've even heard there are extremely small Jewish groups scattered around the country. There's a hill there covered in icons of many different faiths in Šiauliai. It's something they celebrate, I've heard stories about rowdy religious festivals they don't cover in the travel guides.
 
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