The Haida raids of OTL were driven in part by their superior firepower and in part by their ability to better mobilize their society due to more efficient tools (i.e. European-traded tools) and eventually by the very end of the 18th century potatoes. The Coast Salish did not have such firepower...
I think in a lot of ways it would be akin to the French sort of colonisation based around acquiring trade goods and remitting it back to the metropole. There wouldn't need to be a large population, and such a thing would be discouraged. There might not even be a demand for assimilation--the Edo...
The Three Leagues were a long-time ally of the Swiss Confederacy and at one point ruled the three valleys within the modern Italian province of Sondrio and sought to rule the area around Como. However, their rule was undermined there and eventually they lost control over it. So if this doesn't...
The colonists of New France had a lot more going for them technologically and economically than a bunch of Norse herdsmen and would-be farmers. And considering the continuing importance of hunting and fishing in the diet of the Indians of the Northeast, I doubt population densities would have...
My issue is that unlimited expansion down to New England or down the St. Lawrence doesn't really seem plausible since within 150-200 years, the Amerindians will become much more advanced and organised as a result of the trade carried on by Vinland, mixed-race individuals settling among them, and...
Ignoring my disagreements with that model of population and expansion, the result of any substantial Vinland is quite large. It would see plenty of contact from Europe--it's a substantial realm with decent exports--iron, exotic furs, walrus ivory, gyrfalcons, and probably gold. It can export...
Mamluk Egypt only lost one major battle against the Mongols (in 1299) and that ultimately didn't matter because the Mongols never followed up on that victory so three years later the Mamluks returned and won. Theoretically the Crusaders might be able to do the same due to environmental...
No, the Chagatai Khanate has needed to consolidate its gains, so the Magadha/Mithila region is still very much a frontier. The latter (under the Karnat dynasty) is actually more of a threat to Mongol rulee than the Lakhnauti Sultanate in Bengal since Bengal is too busy dealing with its own...
Within the Indian subcontinent? Pretty much just Sindh, most of modern West Bengal/parts of Bangladesh, about half of modern Gujarat, and Malwa is battling an invasion by officers from Taliqu's army under Diler Khan. Individual Mongol princes who are Muslim might have appanages in India though...
The alternatives to Islam after the 11th century in Iran would either be something derived from Islam (a "fourth Abrahamic religion" so to speak) or Nestorian Christianity. And the latter is only happening if the Ilkhanate converts to Christianity AND somehow becomes much more stable than they...
I wish I knew more about the archaeology and societies of this region, since this idea does have potential. It's curious there wasn't a larger civilisation there, since the area seems to meet the definition of the "circumscription theory" of a narrow band of good farmland (albeit one which needs...
Blue-water ships are inevitably going to be invented as part of an industrial revolution. The industrial nation will demand to export its excess goods, meaning it will need better ships since sea travel is the easiest and cheapest way of doing so. This even happened in so-called...
Threadmarks: Chapter 44-A Usurper of the Middle Horde
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"A Usurper of the Middle Horde"
The last of the caravan guards fell at Shouni Yorikazu's feet, casting his sword aside and begging for mercy in that strange language he spoke, but Yorikazu would give him none.
"You think I'll let someone like you run to the nearest town and get some...
Some of them like dancing, maybe, since some ideologies and religions do call for a blanket ban. Possibly music too, but there never was an ideology which condemned music entirely. Salafist Islam permits vocal music praising Allah, and the Mohist condemnation of music mostly referred to the...
Depends how much you want the Caliphate to expand. If it doesn't expand enough, then it's very likely that whatever "Islam" looks like barely resembles Islam as we know it.
I think the big one is preventing the Islamic conquest of Central Asia, because that butterflies the Islamisation of the...