This quote from Flocculencio:
made me think of another interesting religious/cultural AH scenario: What if Buddhism supplanted Hinduism as the main religion of the Indian subcontinent? Imagine the possibilities if a Semitic-branch monotheistic religion comes into contact: The pagans are trying to convert you just as much as you're trying to convert them!
Anyways, how could you go about doing this and what would the effects be?
Also, Hinduism developed it's own evangelical wing in Buddhism, giving it a more easily propagated form. Apparently modern Hinduism is a relatively recent (recent meaning within the past 2000 years or so) reaction to a swing away from Buddhism which was the dominant form of Hinduism for a thousand years or so (c.f. the arrival of Christianity coinciding with the final swamping of Buddhism in S. India). When you deal with Asia, you deal in Deep Time, as far as a human timescale goes.
made me think of another interesting religious/cultural AH scenario: What if Buddhism supplanted Hinduism as the main religion of the Indian subcontinent? Imagine the possibilities if a Semitic-branch monotheistic religion comes into contact: The pagans are trying to convert you just as much as you're trying to convert them!
Anyways, how could you go about doing this and what would the effects be?