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Very few timelines have taken a surviving Byzantium through to the industrial age and beyond. What I'm curious about, is how successful the Empire can be in the new ball-game.

For the purposes of this thread, I'm going to suggest the PoD is no Mohammed, and the Byzantines have stabilised at roughly the borders of Justinian's conquests, minus Africa past Tunisia and Spain.



What population centres and resources for industrialisation is such a state likely to possess and develop? For comparisons sake, I'm wondering how they would fare when stacked up against OTL France, Britain, the USA, Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary.

If you have the knowledge to discuss how the state, culture, organisation and economy of a Byzantium in this context would evolve, and has evolved to get here, that would also be fascinating.
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