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WI after the battle of talas, a large Arab Muslima army gets lost in kazakhstan, and they settle around lake balkhash and marry the local asian women there and arabize the region. They then expand in the manner of Scythians from Amu Darya, and the Turks from mongolia and arabize and islamize much of siberia by absorption of turks. I think rice would be eaten in eastern europe much earlier.
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