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Ming China's Yongle Emperor sent maritime expeditions under Admiral Zheng He to establish imperial control over the maritime trade, to bring the maritime trade into the tributary system and to force foreign countries to comply with the tributary system. But the expeditions were stopped to divert...

*Iraqi influence

In either 570 or 575 AD, the Marib Dam, one of the engineering marvels of the ancient world, was breached for a final time. The dam was originally constructed in the 8th century BC, and suffered several breaches over the course of it's existence, but it was consistently repaired. The knowledge...

POD of 1918 Make North Yemen be annexed as a Permanent part of Saudi Arabia by 1939 that remains all the way to this alternate present. When looking at how the Saudis took over many Arab Kingdoms such as the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz I always thought it was weird that yemen was the only...

In Islamic history, the Year of the Elephant is when Usurper general Abraha, ruler of Askumite Controlled South-Western Arabia, Is stopped in his tracks by a miraculous plague, as he attempts to conquer Medina, and possibly all of the Hejaz. What happens if he succeeds and Islam is never born, I...

NOTE: Due to personal reasons, I will not be able to work on this TL for a time. At this point I'm just setting it up. Two day's sail from Cape Gardaaful lies a bizarre, desolate island. For thousands of years Mehri and Somali sailors have sailed to it, some settling on this strange land and...

So, how can we make it so that the communist Dhofar Rebellion that occurred in the gulf Arab state of Oman succeeds in toppling the government of the emir, after beating the Omani military and associated British SAS in the time period between the 1960’s and early 70’s? Assuming Oman does go...

A rather simple scenario. So, with a PoD after 1000, that is, after Queen Gudit's purported "reign of terror", how can Ethiopia oversee stable enough growth to politically and economically vassalize the tribes of Yemen on the other side of the Red Sea, like Axum had done centuries before? How...

There was no need for locks since the Mediterranean and the Red Sea are level, so if an Emperor like Augustus or Trajan ordered one built and had 20,000 men put to work on it, it would be finished eventually wouldn't it, even if it fell to one of their successors to finish it? This analysis I...

If the Southern Transitional Council succeeds in making Southern Yemen independent. What do you think they'll call their new country? Republic of Aden? Republic of South Yemen? Restore the old Democratic Republic of Yemen? As of now I can't find an offical name for their new country if they...

I don't know if this is ASB, but seeing as there aren't many Saudi Arabian alternate histories, I thought I'd mix it up. So, After the Ottoman empire fell, and Ataturk reformed Turkey, it became fully Turkish, and never expanded into the Balkans, or down south. That left a power vacuum, that...

How would relations between Nasserist SA and South Yemen go?

What were the resources that promoted civilization in this region? How much of the historical record do we have? How powerful were these kingdoms? I know very little about this region and given I want to study Semitic philology, this discomforts me. What did this region have going for it? How...