Which are your thoughts about this scenario (by 10-11th centuries)?
The basic timeline behind this scenario would be the following:
- The ERE eventually falls to the Sassanians in the 570s/610s/you can choose.
- The western part of the new enlarged Empire is left to settle by Avars/Slavic tribes, which were allies to the Sassanians. This would be analogue when at some point Romans allowed German tribes to settle in the West in order to control peripheral lands they could not control anymore.
- The enlarged Sassanian Empire develops with time into a Slavic-Roman(Greek) West which is mostly (Nestorian) Christian and a still mostly Zoroastrian Iranian East, so at the end, they split up.
- The Sassanian Empire and their successors remain strong enough to fight back the surge of Muslim Arabs, but not enough to prevent some Islamic expansion into Egypt, the Nile Valley, Palestine etc.
- The German-Roman kingdoms of the West gradually merge into a Carolingian/WRE/HRE analogue which encompass most of the Nicene Christian peoples, in order to keep Nestorians/Muslim threat under control.
EDIT: Just for clarification, neither the RGE nor the SGE would be centralized entities at all, and the elites would be German(ic) in the West and Slav(ic) in the East.
The basic timeline behind this scenario would be the following:
- The ERE eventually falls to the Sassanians in the 570s/610s/you can choose.
- The western part of the new enlarged Empire is left to settle by Avars/Slavic tribes, which were allies to the Sassanians. This would be analogue when at some point Romans allowed German tribes to settle in the West in order to control peripheral lands they could not control anymore.
- The enlarged Sassanian Empire develops with time into a Slavic-Roman(Greek) West which is mostly (Nestorian) Christian and a still mostly Zoroastrian Iranian East, so at the end, they split up.
- The Sassanian Empire and their successors remain strong enough to fight back the surge of Muslim Arabs, but not enough to prevent some Islamic expansion into Egypt, the Nile Valley, Palestine etc.
- The German-Roman kingdoms of the West gradually merge into a Carolingian/WRE/HRE analogue which encompass most of the Nicene Christian peoples, in order to keep Nestorians/Muslim threat under control.
EDIT: Just for clarification, neither the RGE nor the SGE would be centralized entities at all, and the elites would be German(ic) in the West and Slav(ic) in the East.
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