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Since I am not yet experienced enough to do so, I would like to ask the lovely folks here to hypothesize a scenario for me. I sometimes like to employ a fun rule in games like EU4 that I like to call "Law of Conservation of Religions" which essentially means that whatever allohistorical gains one religion makes, it has to lose somewhere else. I don't necessarily employ this all the time, but it is a fun concept I like to tout, such as when having large swathes of India fall to Islam, I have Hindus colonize certain territories, or when christians convert animists in Africa I make an african animist empire very powerful.

There is a scenario that I have always liked to see written out in detail, rather than merely played out on screen: Namely, what would happen if the Byzantines reconquered and held the Balkans and Anatolia, while the emirate of Gharnatah reconquers and holds the Iberian Peninsula? How different would the modern day be.

Now, I am not so much interested in how this could happen, but rather what happens after it already takes hold. I assume the point of divergence could be somewhere in the fifteenth century.

Thoughts?
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