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2016-07-07 02:01:40 Post No. 1380945
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2016-07-07 02:01:40
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1. The 4th Crusade doesn't happen.
What would have been the most immediate changes (i.e., things we can be reasonably confident would happen) in history?
What would be the biggest changes (i.e. big things that would be very unlikely to happen as they did in our history)?
My guess is that de-moorified Iberia would grow rich through Mediterranean trade towards the north, leaving America a few more hundred years before Portuguese or British sailors stumbled upon it. Spain would probably attempt to control the Sicily and southern Italy, pitting it into battles with the Byzantines and Venetians; as well as maybe expand towards Africa to keep the de-moorification tradition. Whether Spain would be able to subdue Portugal remains to be seen, but chances are either of the two would become the main player on the region depending on their partners.
Moscow would never come to prominence, and Constantinople keeping its influence in the Slavic tribes and maybe maintaining Greek as a lingua franca in Eastern Europe. This means Russia might not have become the massive country it became.
The Industrial revolution might have come later without the riches from the New World coming when they did, and it remains to be seen if the Romans would be able to adopt and modernize along with the Europeans (assuming it always developed in England initially, which isn't far-fetched). Otherwise, they may get overwhelmed by Iberian and Venetian merchants vying for monopoly of the Mediterranean.
What are your thoughts, /his/?
