By the way, thank you very much for pinning my comment in your 'What if Atatürk never existed?' Video. This is the first time a youtuber pinned my comment. So thank you.
Some additional notes: 0) The Arabization of Egypt happened earlier than the religious change, I think Egypt was largely Arab by the time of the crusades, so unless the rise of nationalism changes it with Coptic being rivied, I don't think the death of Coptic would be much different. 1) Survival of Christian Nubia 2) A more Christian and more Semitic Ethiopia which would have risen earlier without the Ottomans backing of Adal Sultanate and the Oromo migration afterwards. 3) Spain, Portugal and maybe France conquering the Maghreb without Ottomans preventing them from doing so. 3) With no Islamic power west of the Euphrates and Iranian history not changed much, the Safavids would rise in Iran and be the only Islamic power in existence as The Mughal empire wouldn't exist either, the Safavids and Babur only failed to retake central Asia from Uzbeks because of Ottoman aid to Uzbeks, which led to Babur leaving for India. Islamic world would be more Shia as a result. 4) As any scenario with no Ottoman empire, the dates of the exploration of Americas ae gonna change, which means really lucky conquests like that of the Aztecs and Incas may not happen until decades later. Leading to more natives in America.
Great notes/rebuttals as always. I've heard mixed things regarding the Ottoman contribution to Iberian exploration, it's a topic I want to do a non-althist on discussing in more detail to come to an informed opinion.
I know what you mean, but I probably won't, the video would feel too iterative of prior content I've done, and I want to try more of a variety of topics.
I honestly can’t express how amazing your work is, I love the details, the maps, the research that goes into it, and how realistic it is. I’ve seen how much your videos have improved over time and I like the kinda dry humor. This is such an underrated channel.
“The punishment from Allah” argument reminded me of how Muslims reacted to the utter domination of their countries by western powers, reactions such as the ones of the Wahhabists, clinging even harder to scripture and tradition. Great video, man 😉
@@johnythepvpgod1470 you know, you just made me realize that in order for the faith to have survived under such rule there was a certain kind of skin that you needed to have, to sustain all of this and more while still remaining to your faith. The similarity is there and it makes me think of the what-if’s hehe.
That's a really good question. I'd assume with the relative autonomy it's going to remain more diverse in our timeline, since more sects will be allowed to exist. A Lebanon-style situation but throughout Egypt/Syria/the Levant. There wouldn't be a push for unification between non-Catholics.
What if the Cold War had a North/South China instead of a split Korea? Probably have Tibet and the Xinjiang (I spell it right?) independent in such a scenario.
Im pretty sure the muslims' reactions and emotions after the battle of hattin and the success of retaking Jerusalem after 88 years of occupation might be similar to what the Christians felt after the siege of vienna in 1683
I wonder, how big would the Kingdom of Jerusalem grow, and how envy would the European powers be, will they help future crusades the same as before? With the Reconquista a new language emerged, Mozarabic, mix of Castilian and Arabic, so would there be a new language from French and Arabic? But not crushed by French. Would the lesser Duchies of the Middle East be absorbed by Jerusalem or by the European powers? All I know is that the birthplace of Christianity will be Christian again one day ✝️🌞
I think that due to the massive disconnect too, if not conquered, North Africa, would form its own sect of Islam, although most likely, North Africa would be reconquered in a separate crusade and rechristianized,
I know this is far into the future but It seems in such scenarios the crusader kingdom would continue till recent centuries, in that case, one thing that I am curios about is that with the rise of nationalism, decline of religion and the demand for an answer to the "Jewish question" due to the rise of antisemitism, would Europeans decide to send their Jewish populations to a Palestine which they control?
I presume they wouldn't wish to do it, why upset the ethnic mix that exists already with a new power block. However, like in our timeline, it's possible with 19th century nationalism the Jews choose to make the migration regardless, striking a deal like the Balfour Declaration but with the French, leading to a Lebanon-style secretarian conflict instead of the mainly Sunni Arab vs Jewish divide we see today.
Actually, the Crusades were successful, considering that it was never the objective to conquer the Middle-East, except the coasts, in order to stop the Islamic raids on the European coasts, and the expansion of Arab-Caliphate into Europe, that's why the Renaissance in Europe begun directly after the Crusades, and the peak of Reconquista.
lmao, was honestly thinking that myself. i enjoy making these sorta videos but I do want to push for non-Anatolian content in the future. although i'll be doing an anatolian collaboration soon
Oh, and what they found in Tyre and the other Phoenician cities enabled the founding of Henry the Navigator’s school and the start of the age of exploration.
Can you make video on why Crusades started? Instead of this low effort topic that are covered millions of time, not to be rude, but people are ignorant of the fact in which islam started, man who was diddy long before diddy was born, the islamic muhammed who graped 9 years old child, commited numerous genocides, ordered endless war till forced submissions of enitre peoples and nations of the world, and on top of that he is the greatest moral exmaple for all muslims FOR ALL TIMES to follow....this all can be found easily via youtube(Nabi Asli, Robert Spencer, Apostate Prophet, Jay White, AlFadi, Orthodox Shahada) or direct sources like quran and Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari.... muslims would mass rape, kill enslave everyone who opposed them and was not muslim, but if you are leaning left these don't exist, next topic "Persecution and destruction of Iranian Zoroastrians" or "What happened to Yemeni Christians"
Asli, Robert Spencer, Apostate Prophet, Jay White, AlFadi, Orthodox Shahada) all of them have been debunked also the genocides you mean when the jews tried to kill muhammad saw and then muhammad captruerd them and judged them on jewish law also didn;t rebeeca mary isaac at 3 to 14
