DBWI: Turkish speaking Anatolia

I have read this timeline by this AH member that suggested that Turkic speakers from Central Asia take over Anatolia and the Roman Empire with it. That's just too ASB

The Roman Empire fell after being conquered by the Slavic speaking Avar Khaganate. After 200 years, the Avars are assimilated into Roman society and become staunch patrons of Orthodox Christianity and defend all of the Empire from the Bahirists. How would you logically factor in Turkic peoples in a Conquest of the Romans? This author claims that Bahirism never rising is the POD and another religion takes it place. Bahirism, for all of those who don't know, was a popular religion in the Middle East until it was reformed and subsequently subsumed into Orthodox Christianity.

What's next from this author, Slavic speaking Illyria?
 
I have read this timeline by this AH member that suggested that Turkic speakers from Central Asia take over Anatolia and the Roman Empire with it. That's just too ASB

The Roman Empire fell after being conquered by the Slavic speaking Avar Khaganate. After 200 years, the Avars are assimilated into Roman society and become staunch patrons of Orthodox Christianity and defend all of the Empire from the Bahirists. How would you logically factor in Turkic peoples in a Conquest of the Romans? This author claims that Bahirism never rising is the POD and another religion takes it place. Bahirism, for all of those who don't know, was a popular religion in the Middle East until it was reformed and subsequently subsumed into Orthodox Christianity.

What's next from this author, Slavic speaking Illyria?

Easy. Have the Slavs not basically be an all you can eat buffet of petty City-States that are constantly warring will one another. The Dnieper-Volga region quite literally invited them in to oppress their rivals and act as their armies... is it any surprise these mercaneries decided they could just skip the middle man and settle in as rulers themselves? There's a reason we call the region north of the Black Sea and east of Scandinavia Tartary after all... and exposing them to the Nordic Aesir Worship that glorified warfare was the pathway to a paradise that really appeals to the ride hard, drink hard, fight hard types certainly didn't hurt the efforts of the great unifier Batu to solidify permant Turkic acendency both in politics and population in the region. Merged great with Zoroastrianism.

You'd need toweaken Roman power to the point they're a juicier target... maybe have Persia hit them harder? It's really hard to do, especially given Asia Minor economically propped up Thrace rather than the other way around,
 
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