This is ATL is based upon a thread I started called the ‘Karnate of Europe’ whereupon Batu Khan (Son of Ghengis Khan) lives about five years longer establishing a Khanate in Europe. One butterfly with this one is the rise of the maritime Kingdom of Aragon leading onto to an earlier discovery of the Americas than the OTL.
1278 Golden Horde invade Europe consolidating and absorbing all the Russian principalities as well as Poland/Lithuania. Mongols defeat St. Louis, along with many of the leading princes of Europe. Emperor Frederick II retires to Sicily, while a Pope-less Europe is ravaged by the Mongol Armies.
1281 Following Kublai Khan's example in China, the Mongols and adopt the trappings of European monarchs usurping the Holy Roman Empire. The first Mongol Roman Emperor is Sartak Khan, who is baptized as a Catholic before his father Batu dies. Emperor Sartak rehabilitates the Church and begins the Holy Roman Karnate of Europe renaming himself Pope John the First. (This also fulfils Bantu’s great destiny of reaching the ‘Great Sea’ (Atlantic Ocean)
1285 Invigorated by the huge influx of European refugees, the rising Kingdom of Aragon seizes all of Iberia (including Muslim Granada).
1288After the Battle of Saragossa, the Kingdom of Aragon is forced into vassaldom by the Karnate but remains a major maritime power trading throughout the Mediterranean and Western Europe. Only Britain and Sweden and Norway remain independent Kingdoms resisting the ‘Mongolian Yoke’.
1289 Active liberalization by the Khanate across the continent results in civic improvements, greater commerce, religious tolerance and formal codification of laws.
1290 European mainland quickly advances both economically and socially. Largely buffered from the ravages of war in the east by the Karnate of the Golden Horde, trade routes expand from Europe all the way to China and beyond.
1300 Kingdom of Scotland sends diplomats to Rome seeking formal ties with the Karnate. England threatens invasion but backs down after the ‘Great Armada’ is assembled in Flanders to invade if Scotland is attacked.
1304 New sea faring technology is quickly adopted by the Aragon Navy . Sponsorship by their King leads to active attempts to open up new shipping routes to a land rumored to be somewhere in the west as documented by Norse sailors in the Tenth Century. The Holy Roman Karnate grows increasingly interested in Aragon’s endeavors not only for their own strategic purposes but to continue their desire to create a Pax Mongolia across the world.
Feedback and contributions welcomed!
Thanks to all who contributed to this thread!
1278 Golden Horde invade Europe consolidating and absorbing all the Russian principalities as well as Poland/Lithuania. Mongols defeat St. Louis, along with many of the leading princes of Europe. Emperor Frederick II retires to Sicily, while a Pope-less Europe is ravaged by the Mongol Armies.
1281 Following Kublai Khan's example in China, the Mongols and adopt the trappings of European monarchs usurping the Holy Roman Empire. The first Mongol Roman Emperor is Sartak Khan, who is baptized as a Catholic before his father Batu dies. Emperor Sartak rehabilitates the Church and begins the Holy Roman Karnate of Europe renaming himself Pope John the First. (This also fulfils Bantu’s great destiny of reaching the ‘Great Sea’ (Atlantic Ocean)
1285 Invigorated by the huge influx of European refugees, the rising Kingdom of Aragon seizes all of Iberia (including Muslim Granada).
1288After the Battle of Saragossa, the Kingdom of Aragon is forced into vassaldom by the Karnate but remains a major maritime power trading throughout the Mediterranean and Western Europe. Only Britain and Sweden and Norway remain independent Kingdoms resisting the ‘Mongolian Yoke’.
1289 Active liberalization by the Khanate across the continent results in civic improvements, greater commerce, religious tolerance and formal codification of laws.
1290 European mainland quickly advances both economically and socially. Largely buffered from the ravages of war in the east by the Karnate of the Golden Horde, trade routes expand from Europe all the way to China and beyond.
1300 Kingdom of Scotland sends diplomats to Rome seeking formal ties with the Karnate. England threatens invasion but backs down after the ‘Great Armada’ is assembled in Flanders to invade if Scotland is attacked.
1304 New sea faring technology is quickly adopted by the Aragon Navy . Sponsorship by their King leads to active attempts to open up new shipping routes to a land rumored to be somewhere in the west as documented by Norse sailors in the Tenth Century. The Holy Roman Karnate grows increasingly interested in Aragon’s endeavors not only for their own strategic purposes but to continue their desire to create a Pax Mongolia across the world.
Feedback and contributions welcomed!