On September 30 608 AD, For some reason that is not fully understood, a butterfly flaps it's wings in the oposite direction as OTL, and this causes an earthquake that splits the continent of africa from the continent of eurasia along the same path as the Suez canal will one day be in OTL. Those in the imedate area are screwed, but this means that the people europe now have a quick, cheap, sea route to Asia. Now what?