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Nice timeline here St. Just, I hope to see it go far.

Also I see that the Mongols, showing themselves to be pieces of shit that destroy and hold back progress ITTL, just like IOTL. Fucking Mongols and their absurdly good PR IOTL. Hopefully ITTL we won't have people tripping themselves protecting the Mongols since they majorly effected the West negatively ITTL unlike IOTL.

Sorry about the above rant, I just really hate the Mongols and how people love them so much.

Also glad that the ERE was ultimately able to do what they do best and play the different mongol states off against each other. Though I doubt the could've taken Constantinople even if they tried, since it took literal canons to break through poorly maintained Theodosian Walls, something the Mongols don't have and they'd be going against a properly maintained Theodosian Walls.
 
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I don't think it is all fair to say the Mongols wholly impeded progress; even the Middle East saw a bit of rebirth before Timur compounded the issues further.

They also established a single belt of trade and cultural exchange -- the introduction of paper and gunpowder weapons further westward was world-changing. The new knowledge of Asia in the West was a direct impetus for exploration.

Here, your take is common among many Sunnis, Catholics and the broken remnants of the Magyar nation -- but the Timur analogue definitively failed, sparing the Near East further Mongol-scale brutality.
 
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Whilst what you're saying is at least somewhat true, I don't think that's enough to make up for ending the Islamic Golden Age, butchering Bagdad and destroying it's House of Wisdom, destroying the Song and ending any chance of it's Industrial Revolution. Also there is some who believe that the damage the Mongols did on Mesopotamia permanently crippled it by the massive amount of damage they did to their Irrigation system. Essentially, I hate them for crippling everyone who wasn't Europe in Eurasia.

Though at least there isn't a Timur who just made things worse.
 
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