Rome against Islam

Thrawn

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Supposed that Emperor Valens would have won the battle of Adrianopel and that this victory would have enabled Rome to withstand the germanic tribes and the Huns.

So that in the 5th century Rome would have been severly weakened and on the edge of collapse but it would have survived and regained its strenght by the 6th century.

So that by the time of the expansion of Islam, Western and Eastern Rome would be in possesions of all territories they had by the time of Emperor Trajan.

Would Islam have conquered North Africa and Spain that easily? Would it have even dared to attack Rome? Or would the Western and Eastern part of the Empire conquered the Arabs?
 
What makes you think the Islamic religion develops more or less the same in Arabia with a POD several centuries prior to the birth of Muhammed?
 
Islam would be butterflied. If it's not, and Islam is the true religion and would have happened anyway, I see no reason why the Roman Empire wouldn't have been attacked. From the perspective of the Arabs and other peoples of the Near East in the early 630s, the Roman Empire was as strong as it ever had been.
 

Thrawn

Banned
Islam would be butterflied. If it's not, and Islam is the true religion and would have happened anyway, I see no reason why the Roman Empire wouldn't have been attacked. From the perspective of the Arabs and other peoples of the Near East in the early 630s, the Roman Empire was as strong as it ever had been.

Yeah the thing was - by 630 there was only the Eastern part of Rome in OTL. The Western parts were fractured.
 
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