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Anyway thinking that my discussions with Aldarion are diverging somewhat from Lord Invictus's original post. a) It would probably take a little longer for those states to be Christianised as compared to the Islamisation of OTL. However not sure if it would be greatly so. You would still...

Interesting thanks. Persia would be an issue for both factions in that case. However I think there would be a lot of tension between the two Christian states over political claims and economic interests as well as religion and the loss of those territories would be a huge economic and...

Interesting thanks. I haven't read much on the imperial economy but thought that the Italian city states [especially Venice] only gained privileges in the period after Manzikert. That before that the empire continued to have substantial wealth both from trade routes going through the empire...

What are you thinking of as those external conditions and why they might not recur in a different TL? As I understand it the problem was that the empire looked too secure so the leadership got too complacent and hence involved in internal power struggles and undermining the military as it was...

It might depend on the circumstances. If as OTL Iran is weak and Byzantium also has a weak period then they could suffer considerable losses as OTL. Its less likely but all state fail at some time or later. Some have considerable potential to revive in a new form - most famously China - but...

Aldarion No Islam doesn't mean those things wouldn't wouldn't happen. It just means that assorted other powers might do similar things. For instance if Sassanian Persia revives faster than Byzantium after their mutually destructive war - as something like that is likely sooner or later they...

Lord Invictus Very interesting idea, thanks. If Islam never rose or was quickly strangled in the cradle then your likely to see some forms of Christianity spread both through Africa and also I would say much of southern and western Asia, simply because it puts so much effort into converting...