After the great Byzantine Sassanid war, Egypt and North Africa seceded from the Romans, creating their own Christian kingdoms. Persia is weakened and Turkic tribes settle in the Iranian plateau with little resistance. The Turks adapt to Zoroastrian and Christian customs, later the Sassanid dynasty is replaced by Turkic one.The Levant joins Egypt under one state, the new Egyptian kingdom is crazy rich, because of its control of the trade routes of the red sea and the silk road. A church schism would appear between the Copts and Syriacs on one side, and the Constantinople on another.North Africa follows its own rite, Church of Carthage, still pledges loyalty to the Roman Catholic church.Byzantium wins the Slavic tribes and convert them to orthodoxy, Europe is divided between Rome and Constantinople.Advancement is science and technology happens in an astonishing rate, Persia and Egypt are strongholds of human knowledge but struggle to industrialize, later that knowledge is transmitted to Europe. Industrialization happens quickly, civilization will reach its peak in art, architecture, infrastructure etc.Europeans will excel at maritime and navigational technology, and would ditch the East Romans and Egyptians, to search for new routes.New lands will be discovered, Europeans will settle and create colonies. But the process will be peaceful and they would rely on trade instead of conquest.
>>18102415Heraclius should have tried converting the Turks. He just hired them as mercs but I think history would have been different if he converted them to Christianity before the Zutt lovers had a chance to do the same.
>>18102535>Zutt loversEnough with this forced meme. It was a intentional mistraslantion of a minor Hadith with disputed reliability
>>18102622The hadith is sound if you are Sunni, aka the majority Muslim denomination on the planet. How will you cope, zuttzister?
>>18102622Nowhere in the text does it say they were Djinn, it only refers to them as al-Zuṭṭ (الزُّطُّ). The Zutt were Indians who migrated to Arabia during Sassanid-times and the name “Zutt” is an Arabized form of “Jat”. “Riden” is a translation of the words yarkabūna (يَرْكَبُونَ) meaning “they ride” and rakibūh (رَكِبُوهُ) meaning “they rode him”, they both deprive from the root word *rakiba* (رَكِبَ) meaning “to ride” and all of these words can be used in a sexual context in Classical Arabic. “Crowding around” is a more obscure usage of the word and even if the Hadith was about the Zutt following him around, the imagery still would be hilarious as fuck since the text says they were naked.It was narrated by one of the most trusted reciters of the Quran, Abdullah ibn Masud, it is part of the Aahih al-Bukhari (the collection of canonical Hadiths), and most scholars agree it’s real. Even if you think the Hadith is “weak,” it doesn’t change the fact that someone decided to write it down and the fact that it wasn’t among the Hadiths burnt for being “forgeries” means that it was considered to be legit.Taqiyya isn’t working. Just admit your “anti-gay” prophet took BBC and enjoyed it.
>>18102622Ok but what about my counterfactual about the Turks.
>>18102415The Anglos turned out to be better at Astronomy than the Egyptians, presumably because of the high latitude. The Venerable Bede himself was actually an astronomer who did other stuff on the side.
