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What would have happened if the conquering Mongol leader Genghis Khan (his name was Temujin) had lived and established his vast empire a hundred years earlier? What then could have been the fate of the Crusades and of Islam?
Timojin of our timeline was born in 1060. In 1098 he receives the title Genghis Khan and begins his conquests - initially northern China is conquered but in 1110 the great journey into Central Asia and Russia begins. By 1118, the cities of Bukhara and Samarkand were conquered and looted, and in 1121, the Mongol cavalry reached the Caucasus. The European kings hear about the most shameful tax, they engage in cooperation with the ruler in order to establish the power of the Latin kingdoms in the Middle East, after the exchange of letters Genghis Khan agrees to a campaign of conquests in the Arabian Peninsula with aid and supplies from the Crusaders. In April 1124, the Mongol warriors set out to the south and after stopping in Beit-Shan and Jericho, they continue towards the Arabian Peninsula. At the beginning of July, the "Great Battle of Mecca" takes place and the city burns to the ground. Thousands of Muslim believers are slaughtered but Genghis Khan himself is also killed in the middle of the battle. His son who succeeds him completes the conquest of the Arabian Peninsula within one year and establishes the "Khan of Arabia". The crusaders take advantage of the opportunity and start a second crusade. In 1130 the "Grand Countess of Damascus" is declared a sister kingdom to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, to the Principalities of Antioch and to the Countesses of Edessa and Tripoli.
The destruction of Mecca by the Mongols and the death of Genghis Khan in battle lead to 15 years of bloody wars between the Mongols and the Muslims. In the end, the Mongols conquer Iran, Iraq and today's Saudi Arabia, ban Islam and establish independent kingdoms there ruled by the sons and grandsons of the great leader.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the continent, Genghis' second son aspires to take over the rest of the Kingdom of China. He joins forces with the emperor to form the Liao dynasty - in 1131 he married the emperor's daughter and actually founded a new dynasty called Yuan-Liao whose united army sets out to conquer the Song kingdom in the south of China. Messabushi continues even after the fall of southern China, the high level of organization of the administrative and military people of the new kingdom obviously plays in its favor - the Japanese islands are conquered in 1140, the Philippine islands in 1146 and the rest of Southeast Asia in 1159. This is how the China of the Yuan-Liu dynasty will become independent a central world for the next 400 years.
After the removal of the threat from Islam, the Crusader kingdoms continue to exist and prosper and many are established throughout Europe and the Middle East. The Caliphate of Cairo is the last vestige of Muslim rule after the rest of North Africa and Spain are divided between the Latin Crusaders and Byzantine princes like from the Third Crusade (1180-1192). Two entities continue to expand their sphere of influence (and compete with each other) west of the Ural Mountains - the Russian Tsardom, an ally of the Byzantines whose capital is Kiev. and the Kingdom of Poltava in the territories of Poland and the present-day Baltic states, which accepts the Tolite Christianity.
The attached map depicts the alternate world in 1413, the first forays of the Chinese admiral, Hua-ling, into the Americas. The Chinese Empire, marked in yellow, is at its height. It is considered the richest power in the world and Emperor Yuan-Lio V the most powerful man in it. She directly rules the sub-kingdoms marked in light yellow. Among the sub-kingdoms we can mention the kingdom of Riban (the Japanese islands of our time line) and the Kalmyk kingdom in the west, which in 1353 officially adopted the Buddhist religion. The travels of the Chinese reached the northern shores of Australia until 1398. The Chinese sailors discovered that Muslim refugees had established several settlements 150 years earlier. India, in gray color, is divided into a large number of "states" dominated by the Hindu religion and is considered one of the most tolerant places in the world - it includes many communities of Jews, Zoroastrians, and Muslims (whose influence is of course smaller than our time). The Mongol khans, the fruit of the conquest campaign at the beginning of the 12th century, are marked in orange. In 1235 the Mongols also conquered the kingdom of Ethiopia and ruled it with their own dynasty. One generation later, those Mongol rulers accepted Orthodox Christianity like most of the people there - in 1413 the Khan of the Beauty was considered more advanced and advanced than the Khans of Arabia and Iran and he even had a large and well-equipped army.
In the absence of Islam as a dominant force, the Latin kingdoms in the Middle East continue to exist (marked in light green). The split in the Catholic Church in 1301 resulted in the crowning of a rival pope who established his seat in Jerusalem. The split got even worse in the 14th century, and in 1413 there were four popes - in Rome, Jerusalem, Palermo and Avignon, the people on the map with a small cross. The Byzantine Empire (purple color) is in a better condition than our time - despite its weak army, it is very rich, Byzantine princes hold large territories in the north of Africa (light purple) and pay taxes that flow to Constantinople. The Duchy of Kiev (dark purple) is an unofficial ally of the Byzantines - this despite the fact that the alliance was unsuccessful in the war against the Kingdom of Poltava between 1309-1313. The Catholic Kingdoms are marked in green and dark green - Poltava, Sweden, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Naples, Holy See of Rome, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Denmark, Normandy and Iberia. The black plague didn't break out as strongly as it did in our timeline. For this reason the population of Europe is larger and there is migration of Europeans to North Africa and the Middle East. Finally, in the Americas, the empires of the Incas and the Aztecs are marked in red. that since we are only on the eve of the discovery of America by the old, the situation of the aforementioned empire is very similar to the situations in our history
Timojin of our timeline was born in 1060. In 1098 he receives the title Genghis Khan and begins his conquests - initially northern China is conquered but in 1110 the great journey into Central Asia and Russia begins. By 1118, the cities of Bukhara and Samarkand were conquered and looted, and in 1121, the Mongol cavalry reached the Caucasus. The European kings hear about the most shameful tax, they engage in cooperation with the ruler in order to establish the power of the Latin kingdoms in the Middle East, after the exchange of letters Genghis Khan agrees to a campaign of conquests in the Arabian Peninsula with aid and supplies from the Crusaders. In April 1124, the Mongol warriors set out to the south and after stopping in Beit-Shan and Jericho, they continue towards the Arabian Peninsula. At the beginning of July, the "Great Battle of Mecca" takes place and the city burns to the ground. Thousands of Muslim believers are slaughtered but Genghis Khan himself is also killed in the middle of the battle. His son who succeeds him completes the conquest of the Arabian Peninsula within one year and establishes the "Khan of Arabia". The crusaders take advantage of the opportunity and start a second crusade. In 1130 the "Grand Countess of Damascus" is declared a sister kingdom to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, to the Principalities of Antioch and to the Countesses of Edessa and Tripoli.
The destruction of Mecca by the Mongols and the death of Genghis Khan in battle lead to 15 years of bloody wars between the Mongols and the Muslims. In the end, the Mongols conquer Iran, Iraq and today's Saudi Arabia, ban Islam and establish independent kingdoms there ruled by the sons and grandsons of the great leader.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the continent, Genghis' second son aspires to take over the rest of the Kingdom of China. He joins forces with the emperor to form the Liao dynasty - in 1131 he married the emperor's daughter and actually founded a new dynasty called Yuan-Liao whose united army sets out to conquer the Song kingdom in the south of China. Messabushi continues even after the fall of southern China, the high level of organization of the administrative and military people of the new kingdom obviously plays in its favor - the Japanese islands are conquered in 1140, the Philippine islands in 1146 and the rest of Southeast Asia in 1159. This is how the China of the Yuan-Liu dynasty will become independent a central world for the next 400 years.
After the removal of the threat from Islam, the Crusader kingdoms continue to exist and prosper and many are established throughout Europe and the Middle East. The Caliphate of Cairo is the last vestige of Muslim rule after the rest of North Africa and Spain are divided between the Latin Crusaders and Byzantine princes like from the Third Crusade (1180-1192). Two entities continue to expand their sphere of influence (and compete with each other) west of the Ural Mountains - the Russian Tsardom, an ally of the Byzantines whose capital is Kiev. and the Kingdom of Poltava in the territories of Poland and the present-day Baltic states, which accepts the Tolite Christianity.
The attached map depicts the alternate world in 1413, the first forays of the Chinese admiral, Hua-ling, into the Americas. The Chinese Empire, marked in yellow, is at its height. It is considered the richest power in the world and Emperor Yuan-Lio V the most powerful man in it. She directly rules the sub-kingdoms marked in light yellow. Among the sub-kingdoms we can mention the kingdom of Riban (the Japanese islands of our time line) and the Kalmyk kingdom in the west, which in 1353 officially adopted the Buddhist religion. The travels of the Chinese reached the northern shores of Australia until 1398. The Chinese sailors discovered that Muslim refugees had established several settlements 150 years earlier. India, in gray color, is divided into a large number of "states" dominated by the Hindu religion and is considered one of the most tolerant places in the world - it includes many communities of Jews, Zoroastrians, and Muslims (whose influence is of course smaller than our time). The Mongol khans, the fruit of the conquest campaign at the beginning of the 12th century, are marked in orange. In 1235 the Mongols also conquered the kingdom of Ethiopia and ruled it with their own dynasty. One generation later, those Mongol rulers accepted Orthodox Christianity like most of the people there - in 1413 the Khan of the Beauty was considered more advanced and advanced than the Khans of Arabia and Iran and he even had a large and well-equipped army.
In the absence of Islam as a dominant force, the Latin kingdoms in the Middle East continue to exist (marked in light green). The split in the Catholic Church in 1301 resulted in the crowning of a rival pope who established his seat in Jerusalem. The split got even worse in the 14th century, and in 1413 there were four popes - in Rome, Jerusalem, Palermo and Avignon, the people on the map with a small cross. The Byzantine Empire (purple color) is in a better condition than our time - despite its weak army, it is very rich, Byzantine princes hold large territories in the north of Africa (light purple) and pay taxes that flow to Constantinople. The Duchy of Kiev (dark purple) is an unofficial ally of the Byzantines - this despite the fact that the alliance was unsuccessful in the war against the Kingdom of Poltava between 1309-1313. The Catholic Kingdoms are marked in green and dark green - Poltava, Sweden, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Naples, Holy See of Rome, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Denmark, Normandy and Iberia. The black plague didn't break out as strongly as it did in our timeline. For this reason the population of Europe is larger and there is migration of Europeans to North Africa and the Middle East. Finally, in the Americas, the empires of the Incas and the Aztecs are marked in red. that since we are only on the eve of the discovery of America by the old, the situation of the aforementioned empire is very similar to the situations in our history
