Hey everyone, just pitching this idea.
As Christian Europe attains dominance in the Mediterranean, and begins to exert its influence overseas, to the New World and down into Africa, and east to Asia, Muslim North Africa and Southwest Asia also retain a level of strength, although they are still outmatched by Christian Europe. While Castille, Aragon, Portugal, England, Denmark and so forth establish colonies in the Americas, during the fourteenth century, a few small colonies are established by Arab/Moor/Turkish nationsas well. However, Muslim emirs and sultans can clearly see that they are being outstripped by their European Christian counterparts, and so utilise other techniques to reduce the latter’s power. Islamic missionaries are sent into the depths of the American continents, working to convert the Indigenous peoples to the True Faith of Islam. In order to achieve these goals, these missionary groups aid the Natives in technological development, by teaching them metallurgical and agricultural practices, and primitive vaccination techniques (‘scabbing’), which boost their power enough that several native polities can survive in the face of European expansion. Arab culture in particular has a huge effect upon the Inca Empire, which is transformed into the Inka Sultanate, a kingdom with close relations with the Muslim states. With the conversion of many of the Great Plains tribes, a Muslim population base develops in North America, with tens of thousands of immigrants arriving from the Mediterranean to settle the region, setting up the plains emirates. Muslim insurgencies begin in Spanish-occupied Mexico. Meanwhile the greater Muslim presence in the New World encourages slave uprisings, and the conversion of many blacks to Islam. The Inland Black Kingdoms of Louisiana are one consequence of this. With the empowerment of Natives and blacks through the face of Islam, many areas of the New World become very open to Arabs, Berbers, Turks, Persians, Copts and other traditionally Muslim ethnicities, resulting in a very different face to the Americas by the 21st Christian Century than in OTL. There remain a great number of Christians in various areas, including the Thirteen Colonies and Canada, where Europeans remain predominant, as well as Christian-dominated areas where much of the populace is mestizo or black, such as the United Colombian States, stretching from Yucatan to Suriname.
Obviously mostly a bit vague, but I can work on specifics. Any thoughts?
As Christian Europe attains dominance in the Mediterranean, and begins to exert its influence overseas, to the New World and down into Africa, and east to Asia, Muslim North Africa and Southwest Asia also retain a level of strength, although they are still outmatched by Christian Europe. While Castille, Aragon, Portugal, England, Denmark and so forth establish colonies in the Americas, during the fourteenth century, a few small colonies are established by Arab/Moor/Turkish nationsas well. However, Muslim emirs and sultans can clearly see that they are being outstripped by their European Christian counterparts, and so utilise other techniques to reduce the latter’s power. Islamic missionaries are sent into the depths of the American continents, working to convert the Indigenous peoples to the True Faith of Islam. In order to achieve these goals, these missionary groups aid the Natives in technological development, by teaching them metallurgical and agricultural practices, and primitive vaccination techniques (‘scabbing’), which boost their power enough that several native polities can survive in the face of European expansion. Arab culture in particular has a huge effect upon the Inca Empire, which is transformed into the Inka Sultanate, a kingdom with close relations with the Muslim states. With the conversion of many of the Great Plains tribes, a Muslim population base develops in North America, with tens of thousands of immigrants arriving from the Mediterranean to settle the region, setting up the plains emirates. Muslim insurgencies begin in Spanish-occupied Mexico. Meanwhile the greater Muslim presence in the New World encourages slave uprisings, and the conversion of many blacks to Islam. The Inland Black Kingdoms of Louisiana are one consequence of this. With the empowerment of Natives and blacks through the face of Islam, many areas of the New World become very open to Arabs, Berbers, Turks, Persians, Copts and other traditionally Muslim ethnicities, resulting in a very different face to the Americas by the 21st Christian Century than in OTL. There remain a great number of Christians in various areas, including the Thirteen Colonies and Canada, where Europeans remain predominant, as well as Christian-dominated areas where much of the populace is mestizo or black, such as the United Colombian States, stretching from Yucatan to Suriname.
Obviously mostly a bit vague, but I can work on specifics. Any thoughts?
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