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IOTL,Middle East was a mishmash of peoples of diverse origins,genetics,appearence,culture,language,religion,orientation of thought,etc. This is one of the historical cause for the instability that plagues the region though not the only cause but a very powerful one. In this timeline,I give you a condition and you can unveil how the ME develops. In this timeline,a massive migration of one Indo-European branch into the ME happens in the early to mid Bronze age. The migration is so massive that in just a few generations,the society and the region is almost unified in terms of ethnicity,language,religion and genetics. The older inhabitants join the new Indo-European empire and become indistinguishable in just two or so generations. Semitic peoples,Elamites,Sumerians,Gutians,etc all join the large Indo-European confederation which comes from the Pontic Region and the Caucasus and the confederation contains bilingual Caucasian peoples and Anatolian peoples, Hurro-Urartians,Georgians,Uralics,etc who join en route. They though retain their language as a second language,adopt the Indo-European language for social and political purposes. Its a sedentary and agricultural expansion and hence this huge flood of people. Babylonian,Elamite,Pheonician,Mesopotamian,etc cultures are built upon by the new entrants. So within the late Bronze age and early Iron age,you have a ethnically and linguistically unified region from Judea to Afghanistan. Politically too,almost unified. You can choose any Indo-Europeans. Tocharians,Indo-Iranians,Cimmerians,Dacians,Thracians,Anatolians,etc,etc. Indo-Europeans are the only group capable of this much change as no other peoples are this populous and widespread. I thought of Uralic but Uralics need to cross IE and hence could be assimilated. So you can begin with the effects.
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