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I'm thinking in a The years of Rice and Salt scenario, but less ASB.

Let´s say, for some reson, Europe never rises up from the low standart of living it had in the VIII century AD. Arab armies conquer Spain and Southern France, maybe also Constantinople (as you wish) but for some reason (that's not the point I'd like to treat here) Western Europe remains a mess: extremely divided, constantly menaced by "Pagans" in the North and West and "Moors" in the South, and without any sustained form progress ....for centuries and centuries.

In this ATL, the most developped parts of the world are situated somewhere between Bagdad and Samarkand. Eventually, Malians and Morrocans or Japanese/Chinese discover America, and start colonizing it. At some point, they' are strong enough to conquer Europe or to vasalize it, and assimilate their people their civilization (but maybe not to theire religion).

What would the people of this TL around 1900 or 2000 have of the Anciant Greeks? Would they have such a high opinion of them as much as europeans from the XIX century did? Would this *Arab world civilization consider them their ancestors, as Western Europeans did IOTL? Or would they just ignore them? Would there be something similar to the idea that there are substantial differences, culturaly speaking, between East and West, and that, somehow Ancient Greeks @ Modern Europeans and Ancient Persia @ Arabs/Turks/whoever's Europe's enemy of the day?

And what about *chinese? And, what about *Indians (after all, there were Greeks in India at some point)?
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