aspie3000
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This is kind of a weird question but its for an idea regarding a story. In a world where Christianity never happens and nothing replaces it and Europe stays pagan would the borders of Europe arrive at something resembling the borders of 800 AD in the same year? What would be the effect of no Christianity on the rise of the Franks and the later Frankish empire? Without Islam existing and no heroic legacy of Charles the Hammer Martel I assume that the Merovingians would retain power so would they continue to conquer west or would the Carolingian borders not happen? What about feudalism? Would feudalism develop as it did in a pagan Europe or no? What about the heptarchy in England? Would the seven kingdoms still be a thing without Christianity or no? Would Visigothic Spain survive as well or be conquered into another empire? Or is a world where paganism still survives so alien that we couldn't predict the results?