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In 975 Emperor John I was running around the ME smacking around the weakened Abbasids. Norwich wonders why didn't go on to Baghdad which he thinks could not have resisted long.

So.... what if John DOES go on to Baghdad in 975? Does he win? A Byzantine sack of the city would almost surely not result in the degree of destruction of the books the Mongols visited on it and some might be taken back to Constantinople so there's one possible change: works that are lost to us, might not have been.

Anyhow, other options?
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