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OK, people always talk about butterflies and all that, so I had a question come to be earlier today. I was playing the Renaissance Total War mod for Medieval II Total War as the Timurids, and I was throughly kicking the crap out of the Ottomans. So, if the Timurids were able to conquer the Ottomans and maybe even North Africa, how much of a difference would it have made. Obviously it would have big impacts on Anatolia, the Balkans, and North Africa (new culture superimposed on Greeks, Turks, Arabs, Jews, etc, making things even more complicated), but how much difference would it have made to the rest of Europe to be fearing the Mongol armies instead of the Turkish ones.
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