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Let's imagine that Europe is never Christianized. We can safely take Islam out of the picture as well. How would it develop in the long term? Would all of the various Germanic, Greco-Roman, Celtic, Iberian, Slavic, and Baltic belief systems remain separate, or would they all blend together? Would one overtake the rest?

How would this affect European history in other ways - Would pagan Europeans still be inclined to colonize the entire world as their Christian parallels did when the time came, and would they still have the power to do so? Would pagan Europe need the Enlightenment? Would pagan Europe develop democratic republics, and free-market capitalism? Would pagan Europe have an industrial revolution? Would pagan Europe develop as large a Jewish community as Christian Europe did?
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