No Catholic Church = Islamic World?

the Christianity
Thats not how you say...
the Islam
the Islam
the Islam
The atheist thought
the Islam
the Islam
the Islam
Oh.
I do apologise, normally I do not pick out grammar issues, but you have made the same mistake enough times (or your autocorrect has picked it up as a habit of your writing) that I thought I should mention the concept of proper names.
In short, they behave like nouns but in the singular to specific things which are conceptually referring to a singular entity/idea (usually).

The reason this is important is context. "Hitler" for instance is a proper name. "Hitler did terrible things!" As a sentence indicates that the specific historical person (Adolf Hitler) did something. "The Hitler did terrible things!" Is instead giving a moniker of "Hitler" as a title, and would actually suggest you were talking about anybody BUT Adolf Hitler.

In the same context, Islam, Christianity and Atheist (the latter only when referring to it as a people/concept) are also proper names.

So when you say that the Byzantines would adopt "the Islam", it reads like "Islam" is an entity whilst removing the "the" solves the issue.

I really don't want to distract to heavily, but I felt this did need to be addressed.
 

spendabuck

Banned
I kinda disagree with that.

As pointed out by the above examples I mentioned, it can be fun to do unplausible Alternate History: that's why a lot of people like imagining what the world would have looked like if the Nazis had won World War II for example despite the extreme difficulty in making that nightmarish scenario into a reality. Then, there is the fact that this board as an Alien Space Bats and Other Magics section where basically all non-plausible scenario go: why do we have such a thing if we don't think Alternate History doesn't have to be plausible to be enjoyable?

We do favor the more plausible aspects of Alternate History because most of us here are either historians or have a deep interest for history so we like it when changes make sense and seemed plausible at the time. But that doesn't mean non-plausible timelines can't be fun.

I probably didn't word that properly; I do agree that butterfly-killing TL's can be fun; Lux Invicta is one of my favorite mods for CK2 due to its diversity, and the Splendid Isolation TL on the Alien Space Bats forum seems promising (I'm pretty sure they're planning on also killing a lot of butterflies). But, as you said, there's an ASB forum for that; I was mostly talking about non-ASB TL's. Again, a few minor butterflies can be killed, but they shouldn't if they're trying to be plausible. If you want to have a TL where a lot of butterflies are killed, I would recommend going to the ASB forum.
 
For this to work, you'd need Rome to reject Christianity , but for the rejection to not work in Asia, and possibly parts of Europe.

That might not butterfly away Islam. Otherwise, this premise is impossible.
 
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