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Points of Divergence : Mongol Invasions
As most historians know, the Mongols exploded out of North-Central Asia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, conquering most of the known world. They ruled the largest contiguous empire to ever exist, second only to the British Colonial empire. Because of the Mongol Empire's many points of coolness, AH.Commers love it. A popular POD is a more powerful and larger Mongol Empire.
Mongol Empire development PODs
The Mongol Empire's possible expansion into Europe
Plausibility check: How big can the Mongol Empire get ?
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Personalities of the Mongol conquest
WI Ögedei Khan lived for another 20 years ?
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Mongol invasions in Asia
Challenge: Mongolia controls Siberia
Plausibility check: Mongolian conquests limited to Asia (see map)
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Mongol invasions in Europe
Plausibility check: The Mongols raze Europe in 1242
Best way to fight the Mongols with Medieval European technology
Challenge: Europe defeats the Mongols
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Outcomes for Mongol-conquered territories
Challenge: Mongolia on the Danube
Plausibility check: Mongol Constantinople
Plausibility check: The Byzantine Empire under the Golden Horde ?
WI the Mongols had conquered Egypt ?
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Mongols converting to other religions
What if the Golden Horde succesively becomes a Christian Orthodox empire ?
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DBWIs
DBWI: The Mongol Tribes made a giant empire ?
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Ersatz Mongol Empires
A more successful, expansionist Tibetan Empire instead of Mongolia ?
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See Also
The Chaos Timeline by Max Sinister - A very extensive timeline which imagines what would happen to the world if the Mongol tribes never united and the Mongol Invasions never occured.