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PoD: 367 - Procopius successfully becomes Emperor, though his rule is rather short-lived. As his authority quickly slips through his hands, The Goths take up a larger amount of Thrace and what remains of Dacia in the chaos. As butterflies begin flapping their wings, Britannia is fortified a bit better against barbarians. The opposite applies to the still-rather-unruly Balkan provinces.

When The Migration Age begins, things begin getting strange. The Huns still push the remaining Goths (as well as the Alans and Thervingi) into The Balkans. Having more success in Europe, The Huns never invaded Sassanid Persia. After The Migration Age, Byzantium was slowly reduced in size. Fortunately for Eastern Rome, Sassanid Persia was facing overextension after briefly occupying Egypt and Syria. Over the centuries, The Middle East shifted between Roman and Persian influences over the centuries.

Due to Brittania being more prepared to deal with potential invaders, The Anglo-Saxon invasions were mostly halted. Instead, these peoples moved south, settling The Rhine Delta parts of Gaul. In turn, this scatters more peoples inhabiting this region. Without Anglo-Saxons, all of Britain remains Celtic.

By The 500's, Western Europe looks rather different from OTL already. Iberia is occupied by The Alemanni in the southeast, The Huns (who split into multiple smaller groups after plowing through Rome) in the west and small factions of Franks and Burgundians in the centre. Gaul is split between mixed Germanic communties in the south (mostly Lombards) and Saxons in the north. Northern Italy and the Alps are inhabited by scattered Quadi and Marcommani statelets, while Italy itself is ruled by
a slowly collapsing Rugii Kingdom (Though officially it still counts as The Western Roman Empire). The Balkans are an absolute mess of Germanic, Greek, Roman and Iranic influences, where no one is quite winning out.

With more densely populated Balkans, Slavic peoples occupy a different stretch of land than OTL. More slavs move beyond the Odre and closer towards the Elbe, cementing themselve in our world's Eastern Germany. Some of them also make it to Jutland and the northeastern Alps. Some of them also move eastward- The Volga is more densely populated with Slavs, pushing away Iranic and Turkic peoples.

In the following centuries, Persia was...troubled. Though there are less threats in the west, the north and south are much bigger problems. Displaced Turkic peoples migrate and settle down in Persian territory. Meanwhile, around the 6th century, a somewhat centralised confederacy of Arabic (Christian) states begins to threaten both Rome and Persia. While it's existence is
short-lived, in its lifespan it manages to occupy much of The Near East, from Sinai to Luristan, from Yemen to the southern Caucasus. Though Persia gradually managed to bounce back, the newly risen Persian states were governed differently from the old- Less like The Sassanids, and more like our world's Ottoman Empire (Lots of Christians included- mostly Nestorians and Monophysites, alongside the *Arabic Church that shares a lot of Monophysites but has a couple of key differences).

Norse raids happened pretty much on schedule, though their expansion was different than OTL. Much of Northern Britain and most of Ireland was occupied by ambitious adventurers trying to gain their own holdings (after most of The British Isles had their churches sacked, of course). However, unlike our timeline, most of their focus lies to the east- territories throughout the Volga are settled to make trade with the east easier.

Though Islam didn't arise in this timeline, The Old World was religiously shaken up in different ways. The aforementioned short lived Arabian state popularised a previously small sect of Christianity to be the denomination of a majority of The Near East. Alongside that, a more open sect of Zoroastrianism flourished throughout Asia through the 800's.

Though The Reconquista obviously didn't happen under these circumstances, a similar event happened in Iberia. A wave of berber invaders, converted to *Alt-Donatim earlier on conquered of a large swath of North Africa and Iberia. Over time, their holdings were slowly diminished- even their homeland was slowly converted to Chalcedonian Christianity over time. However, *Alt-Donatism still survived in one region. Having travelled alongside traders, Christianity made its way through The Sahara Desert. The sect still survives to this day in West Africa, and its expansion is still continued.

Christianity is more divided than in our world. With less of any central authority on matters of faith, denominations are many. They are also less clearly separated than OTL- being more easily represented by a set of gradients than anything easily defined. Generally speaking, Christianity in the south (besides Alt-Donatism) trends more seeing Christ as fully divine and fully human in one nature. This is opposed to so-called "Roman" Christianity, similar to our world's Chalcedonians.

Overall, the world is rapidly shifting. Though the natural ebb and flow of states continues, something will change the order of The Christian world very quickly. Coming from the east, The Qomans are moving slowly towards Europe's gates. And with them comes weaponry from the far east- gunpowder. A new age is about to begin, and not just in Europe...

Description
PoD: 367 - Procopius successfully becomes Emperor, though his rule is rather short-lived. As his authority quickly slips through his hands, The Goths take up a larger amount of Thrace and what remains of Dacia in the chaos. As butterflies begin flapping their wings, Britannia is fortified a bit better against barbarians. The opposite applies to the still-rather-unruly Balkan provinces.

When The Migration Age begins, things begin getting strange. The Huns still push the remaining Goths (as well as the Alans and Thervingi) into The Balkans. Having more success in Europe, The Huns never invaded Sassanid Persia. After The Migration Age, Byzantium was slowly reduced in size. Fortunately for Eastern Rome, Sassanid Persia was facing overextension after briefly occupying Egypt and Syria. Over the centuries, The Middle East shifted between Roman and Persian influences over the centuries.

Due to Brittania being more prepared to deal with potential invaders, The Anglo-Saxon invasions were mostly halted. Instead, these peoples moved south, settling The Rhine Delta parts of Gaul. In turn, this scatters more peoples inhabiting this region. Without Anglo-Saxons, all of Britain remains Celtic.

By The 500's, Western Europe looks rather different from OTL already. Iberia is occupied by The Alemanni in the southeast, The Huns (who split into multiple smaller groups after plowing through Rome) in the west and small factions of Franks and Burgundians in the centre. Gaul is split between mixed Germanic communties in the south (mostly Lombards) and Saxons in the north. Northern Italy and the Alps are inhabited by scattered Quadi and Marcommani statelets, while Italy itself is ruled by
a slowly collapsing Rugii Kingdom (Though officially it still counts as The Western Roman Empire). The Balkans are an absolute mess of Germanic, Greek, Roman and Iranic influences, where no one is quite winning out.

With more densely populated Balkans, Slavic peoples occupy a different stretch of land than OTL. More slavs move beyond the Odre and closer towards the Elbe, cementing themselve in our world's Eastern Germany. Some of them also make it to Jutland and the northeastern Alps. Some of them also move eastward- The Volga is more densely populated with Slavs, pushing away Iranic and Turkic peoples.

In the following centuries, Persia was...troubled. Though there are less threats in the west, the north and south are much bigger problems. Displaced Turkic peoples migrate and settle down in Persian territory. Meanwhile, around the 6th century, a somewhat centralised confederacy of Arabic (Christian) states begins to threaten both Rome and Persia. While it's existence is
short-lived, in its lifespan it manages to occupy much of The Near East, from Sinai to Luristan, from Yemen to the southern Caucasus. Though Persia gradually managed to bounce back, the newly risen Persian states were governed differently from the old- Less like The Sassanids, and more like our world's Ottoman Empire (Lots of Christians included- mostly Nestorians and Monophysites, alongside the *Arabic Church that shares a lot of Monophysites but has a couple of key differences).

Norse raids happened pretty much on schedule, though their expansion was different than OTL. Much of Northern Britain and most of Ireland was occupied by ambitious adventurers trying to gain their own holdings (after most of The British Isles had their churches sacked, of course). However, unlike our timeline, most of their focus lies to the east- territories throughout the Volga are settled to make trade with the east easier.

Though Islam didn't arise in this timeline, The Old World was religiously shaken up in different ways. The aforementioned short lived Arabian state popularised a previously small sect of Christianity to be the denomination of a majority of The Near East. Alongside that, a more open sect of Zoroastrianism flourished throughout Asia through the 800's.

Though The Reconquista obviously didn't happen under these circumstances, a similar event happened in Iberia. A wave of berber invaders, converted to *Alt-Donatim earlier on conquered of a large swath of North Africa and Iberia. Over time, their holdings were slowly diminished- even their homeland was slowly converted to Chalcedonian Christianity over time. However, *Alt-Donatism still survived in one region. Having travelled alongside traders, Christianity made its way through The Sahara Desert. The sect still survives to this day in West Africa, and its expansion is still continued.

Christianity is more divided than in our world. With less of any central authority on matters of faith, denominations are many. They are also less clearly separated than OTL- being more easily represented by a set of gradients than anything easily defined. Generally speaking, Christianity in the south (besides Alt-Donatism) trends more seeing Christ as fully divine and fully human in one nature. This is opposed to so-called "Roman" Christianity, similar to our world's Chalcedonians.

Overall, the world is rapidly shifting. Though the natural ebb and flow of states continues, something will change the order of The Christian world very quickly. Coming from the east, The Qomans are moving slowly towards Europe's gates. And with them comes weaponry from the far east- gunpowder. A new age is about to begin, and not just in Europe...