The Age of India

The Umayyads were overthrown because their rampant conquest made the Arabs mad (Persian, Coptic, Berber influences, etc.; the fact that the peoples the Arabs conquered had more influential cultures and were more civilized (in the literal sense of the term) than the Arabs themselves)

The Abbasids would not continue Indian conquest until a generation later.
 
The Umayyads were overthrown because their rampant conquest made the Arabs mad (Persian, Coptic, Berber influences, etc.; the fact that the peoples the Arabs conquered had more influential cultures and were more civilized (in the literal sense of the term) than the Arabs themselves)

The Abbasids would not continue Indian conquest until a generation later.

Just edited it then saw this :L Go have a look.
 
A very interesting start. Is one of the PODs an earlier birth of Muhamad? Otherwise your first Caliphate is nearly twenty years before his birth.
 
A very interesting start. Is one of the PODs an earlier birth of Muhamad? Otherwise your first Caliphate is nearly twenty years before his birth.

There's a footnote explaining the dates. They're not AD, they're in the Saka Era, which begins in what you and I would call 78 CE.
 
Oh, ok. Thanks. I somehow missed that footnote.

It's cool, that's why I have a discussion thread :)


Next post is gonna be about the deposition of the Muslim Emirs and Sultans to be replaced by native Hindu and Buddhist kings, and the gradual absorbtion of foreign minorities, such as Berbers and Turks and Arabs and Persians.

Seeing as the Indians will have inherited the structure of these states from the Arabs as centralised entities, they'll be able to go with the whole 'competitive states' thing that Europe had going on a lot better. There'll be a long pseudo-feudal era while the idea spreads throughout the continent, and maybe even to Southeast Asia. During that time the Arabs will be trading down East Africa and conquering Italy and Iberia and the Balkans.
 
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