What if Russia Was Muslim? Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
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PART 1: • What if Russia Was Mus...
For some reason Vladimir the Great picked Islam in an alternate timeline. The ramifications for this were tremendous. Probably destroyed the idea of Russia at all. Would Russia turn to Central Asia? Would Novgorod be its own independent state?
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Edited by Grant Hurst of Casual Historian: / @casualhistorian
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:00 A Tale of Two Russias
08:44 Novgorod
12:33 Christian Russia
16:00 Muslim Russia
We need more Jimmy and Cody lore, and we need it NOW.
YES!!!
It's not only althist, it's meta!
Why does Jimmy give off Anarcho-Monarchism vibes?
@Zelda Corner what?
I'm so invested in this multiverse.
Considering French influences were heavy in Russia during peak Empire, I wouldn't be surprised if such a relationship would also exist between the French and the Northern Slavs (Novgorod). French philosophy would flourish in a similar way I'd imagine.
How? French influences came because Russia was extremely backward for a long time, then when Peter and Catherine reformed Russia, they used France as a blueprint. That’s not going to happen in this scenario as it’s completely unrelated.
@hereisthefullclip I am confused... but not disengaged.
@@c.i.a.932Catherine was not yhat much of a reformator and she was born long after Peter. And Peter was more fond of Netherlands than France, though he was an autocratic piece of shit that completely enslaved russian peasants and enforced social segregation. Even it was not him who started all the reformes. It was his father.
@@c.i.a.932 Ideas originating in France and spreading across Europe would be exported to Novgorod through trade and travel
Then expect not Lutheran but Calvinist Novgorod or maybe other unique protestant denomination, combination of many different elements. Calvinism was strong in central duchy of Lithuania so it also would possibly backing idea of Calvinistic at least in part Novgorod.
I love how the characters have been slowly devolving into insanity with each video that gets released
Last time, Jimmy had an existential crisis. Today, Cody is having his own existential crisis!
Just like Game of Thrones
Wait, its not all the same guy...?
A vid on if the Sino-Soviet split never happened or was patched up in the 70s would be super duper
Sup my man
That means either the Soviet Union rolled back on Kruschevite reforms or Mao agreed to reform, firstly....that already creates an infinite amount of possibilities in both directions...
@O N Y X Kosygin probably, which would permanently change the USSR and Cold War
@@ooonyxxx Alternate history in a nutshell
@@concept5631 was gonna say same thing 😂
That image you used at 12:21 is a painting of a historic Circassian tradition whereby a woman can stop two fighting parties by taking off her scarf and throwing it in between them, the rival parties would then be forced to stop out of respect for the woman and her wishes by her plea of sacrificing her modesty to stop bloodshed.
interesting. The one at 9:43 is a famous Old Believer (Feodosia Morozova) sticking two fingers up to the church as she sleds by: the old rite uses two fingers to make the cross, and the new rite uses three.
That's very interesting. Thanks
I love my Circassian brothers
If the Russians get culturally closer with Persia, they might have neither a Sultan nor a Tsar. Instead Russia could have a Muhammad Vladimir, Shahanshah of Russia
I think they'd more likely just use Sultan, or even Khan from all that Central Asian influence. They might even use both like some places did: Moxammed Vladimir Khan, Sultan of all Rus
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@@just-some-muslim It's either showing a black person-in which case that would make this persons user name awfully racist-OR I pay attention to things that don't matter and I need to touch grass asap.
As soon as you said "russia might have gotten to the Pacific coast a century earlier" the idea of Muslim Russians colonizing the pacific north west sounds so cool.
There was only ever like 300 Russians max at any given time in America; despite that, in those regions the Natives are mostly still Orthodox. Under Muslim rule + 100 more years, I wonder if you'd see more influence (100 more years of expansion = bigger Alaska) or less (a big reason Orthodoxy stuck is it got mixed up with the local culture - might be harder to do with a religion that comes from a Desert).
Would they still have sold Alaska to the Americans? Would they have completely hunted the otters into extinction? What would their influence over the new world have been? 🤔🤔🤔
Ikr? Imagine Islamic Cascadia stretching from Alaska all the way to Oregon and norther California.
Realistically a Muslim Russia wouldn’t be able to take on the Qing in their homeland, who already put up a good fight to begin with, especially if they fought 100 years early near the height of Qing power. Russia reaches the pacific, but has no warm water port. Also the Chinese maintain ports on the sea of Japan, would could lead to some interesting situations during the Sino-Japanese wars.
@@gutyhuy3817 didn’t Russia take Vladivostok much later in the mid 1800s though?
1:16 The reason this moment resonated so strongly in the Muslim world is because it fulfilled a prophecy
that prophecy being?
nah it didn't that's a false narration people spread around, the real prophecy was about conquering constantinople in the end times without any fighting at all.
What propecy?
Prophet Muhammad have said,
*“Soon Constantinople will be defeated, how wonderful will be the leader and the army (that conquers Constantinople).”*
- Musnad Ahmad, vol. 4 pg. 335
@@just-some-muslim Interesting
This title popping up in my notifications was hilarious. I was watching an emotional part of the show and all the sudden. “WHAT IF RUSSIA WAS MUSLIM!?!?!?”
What show?
@@user-op8fg3ny3j the expanse
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@@missk1697
*Kadyrov-al*
How my intrusive thoughts work😂
I thought I'd never see the day when Althist finally decided to do a "part 2" for any one of his previous videos.
Part 2, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
He also did a part 2 on Muslim Iberia.
@@tigremc Still waiting on part 3.
His "Nazis win WW2" scenario was a 4-episode series, wasn't it?
This definitely isn't the first time.
I'm a bit surprised that he thought the "Muslim Russia" topic needed two episodes, but splitting up a topic he views as complicated and in need of a lot of discussion is not at all new to the channel as a general concept.
@@tigremc still waiting on part 3
You're truly one of the rare RUclipsrs which I love watching their sponsorship clips. That says a lot about how good the quality of the content is.
It's like how Please Stop Talking had a bizarre thriller arc for their ad-reads, back when Shammy (is it still ok to call her that?) was still part of the podcast.
The “wait that’s not you?” Line made me laugh irl, that rarely happens with RUclips videos. I loved the whole ad segment that was great haha I hope we get more wacky lore in the future
It is great to consider that, regardless of whether RU would've become Sunni or Shia, it still would've been changed considerably with eastern Slavic and cold climate cultures
This culture already existed with tatars bashkirs and caucasian muslims
southeast asian muslims live in jungle instead of dry desert yet theyre just not that different than any other muslim.
20:00 The Corporations have found a way to transport floating heads, like Nixon in Futurama, solely to project commercials. Similar to drone sky ads, we are now truly living in the world of 1984.
I'd really like to see a future episode of "What if Mongolia permanently annexed the Keivan Reus."
Mongolia... permanent... you shouldn’t use those two words in the same sentence
Wouldn't have happened, this just wasn't how the Mongol Empire worked
@Reza Jafari exactly. A nomadic culture/empire would've never been "permanent," they eventually would've shrunk or adopted aspects of other cultures.
They would just have been converted from within 😂.
@@Dezzyyy The Ottomans lasted pretty long. Obvs abandoned their nomadic lifestyle.
I would really like to see a video on Poland-lithuania in this timeline as well. Like what important changes would happen or not happen to the Commonwealth. Would they win during the swedish flood( mid XVII century) which caused them to give prussia independence and seal their fate by doing that, or maybe they could colonize America , since livonia( today latvia) as a vassal of Poland-Lithuania took a few Islands that the dutch later occupied in the carribean so that is a possibility. And also later if we assume they won the wars with sweden what if the King of the Commonwealth used his claim as a member of the swedish dynasty(Vasa) to take sweden into a personal Union, would a Polish-Lithuanian-swedish Commonwealth, around the entire baltic sea be a possibility? And during napoleon, what would be the changes seeing as prussia and Austria as well as russian empire wouldn't really exist, so this would also change how it turned out. In short i would like to see the perspective of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in this timeline. Ending my monologue, Thanks for another great video Cody. I like to often think about the different possibilities we could have ended up with during major events in history, and that is why i love this Channel so much for 4 years now :D
I really can't see Poland becoming a major colonial power, since their position on the map just makes it too easy for naval trade to be disrupted and their primary concerns would be in Europe and the Middle East, meaning if they want to expand why not bring some Islamic Russia or Ottoman lands into Poland.
@@anvos658 true, probably the ottoman lands part would be most likely since Commonwealth and turkish forces fought eachother in vienna and there were many conflicts in moldova as well, just like the tsars against sultans fought later for the same lands , so i think the same kind of power struggle for the black sea would occur as in our timeline but instead of the russian Empire against ottoman Empire it would be the Commonwealth forces contesting the turks.
overall in the later years of even the first dynasty of the commonwealth most of their interests was in the south like kingdoms of hungary and Bohemia with jagiellonian dynasty or moldova and the black sea later in the years of kings from the Sobieski or Wiśniowiecki dynasties.
I think Prussia still eventually gains independence. The Hohenzollerns were already becoming a major power in Northern Germany and were quickly becoming a rival to Austria. The Hohenzollerns were also elected dukes of Prussia when it was established as a Polish Vassal state which contributed to its eventual independence.
I could see a potential Swedo-Brandenburger alliance invading the Poles instead of Sweden and Russia in this period. The result is likely land lost in Livonia and the West instead of the East. Perhaps East Prussia is connected to Brandenburg much earlier, leaving Poland-Lithuania almost entirely landlocked to the Northwest. They still almost certainly have a Black Sea Coast.
An important thing though is that Poland likely doesn't get entirely partitioned. That was Frederick the Great's idea but with an Islamic Russia he would likely think twice and would rather have a Polish-Lithuanian buffer to the Muslims. Austria, considering their wars with the Ottomans, likely backs a Polish state's continued existence. Chances are Courland and Lithuania remain in Polish hands along with Ukraine and Belarus, but chunks of the West will likely be lost in early wars with Brandenburg-Prussia.
In the end, However, Poland-Lithuania survives as a state. Sweden probably holds on to Finland, but probably loses Estonia and Livonia in wars with Novgorod.
TLDR: Poland Lithuania doesn't get partitioned but Prussia still gains independence.
A Commonwealth would probably not happen in this timeline. Remember, the whole union occurred because of very specific political situations involving Jogaila and the Gediminds dynastic feuds
People like to act as if it was pre destined for some reason despite Lithuanian history showing it to not be so.
What i find more interesting, is the chance the HRE surviving the napoleonic era... Imagine the HRE during industrialization... Would they be a big state eventually centralized? Or would they be a proto EU (but with only germans)
I liked how you portrayed both Russia's though I think you were just a bit wester centric. I know that most of the viewers are from the west but it could have given a fuller picture showing its effects across Asia and middle east. That may even change the way you see this timeline.
If you agree I would like to even add to this video by making one about the effects in other parts of the globe!
You should do a video on what if the Qing Industrialized.
Most likely the Taipings would be more successful - which is a horrid thought in itself.
That would be china buffed
faster to divide
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I really hope you make a part 3 this is a very deep theme, and the ads are quite good, good vid bro
This is really interesting! I hope a third Episode is coming
Without Russia becoming orthodox and adopting Cyrillic would Novgorod use Latin alphabet?
Yeah, cyrillic is heavily connect to orthodoxy
they would use arabic instead.
It's not often the sponsor spots make me laugh out loud. This one did.
I appreciate the work you put into these videos.
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I would love to see a video where you cover. What if the Anglo-Saxons won at the Battle of Hastings?
The way you catch our attention in the money time it's always as good as the mainly part of the video.
I can't wait for the further stories of Jimmy!
Great video!
13:04 that caught me off guard and made me die laughing LMAO
This is by far the best ad read so far. Definitely got me.
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
I was really looking forward to this video!!
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@@Alec_Reaper how do u know?
@@user-op8fg3ny3j my dad works at Google
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Holy cow you actually got me to laugh out loud at the end. Good job Cody love the videos lol
I’ll pray for your mental health as you continue to read RUclips comments 😂
Amazing ad Cody
and amazing video as always :D
Awesome video!
Is there anyway you’d consider doing your map bits in colors that are more easy to deviate from land and water? I feel like a lot of times I find it hard to tell exactly what I’m looking at, love the videos though. Please keep them coming😎
Stare at maps long enough until the obscure shapes of coastlines and borders are so thoroughly burned into your brain that you will instantly be able to recognise any land no matter how flipped, rotated, or squashed.
Trust me, it works.
@@EvilParagon4 true that. I don’t know I think the light colored land and dark colored water is what throws me off (I think that’s it, I forget since yesterday haha) maybe im pea brained, but I’ll try your suggestion for sure! Appreciate it!
I love your sponsorship ads, this says alot cause I avoid ads purposefully with YT premium
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Looking forward for part 3
Man, I love your ad reads.
You should do a video on the nish alt historie vinyl the new first family 68 that would be a crazy video but an intreassting one or just a quick mention in another video
Uhm, I dont wanna nitpick or anything but your Novgorod from this timeline would have a majority finnic people in it, not slavs especially when they would accept protesthantism which they would. The finnic peoples around petrograd only started fading in the 18th century so I think in this case Novogorod might even abandon its slavic roots and integrate with the finnic people of the region creating a meld between those people. Also you have painted Estonia and Livonia as Novgorod territories much earlier than Russia really conquered them which further indicates that it would probably evolve into something unimaginable for us. So what I am saying is Novgorod might form into a finnic/slavic union uniting Finland, Karelia, Ingria, Estonia, Livonia and Novgorod lands under one banner without the russian finns dyeing out.
This. Novgorod being independent would most certainly lead to a much larger uralic influence upon it.
Interesting
Sensible is to think that the process of acculturation of Finnic people there would occur, similar to what in our timeline happened in Vilnius Land where first nobles & aristocracy then town dwellers slowly acquired Polish language and culture whilst rejecting Ruthenian and/or Lithuanian
While this might be true, it’s safe to assume it’d probably turn out into a Poland Lithuanian esque type of situation. Russians (or Slavs) in general would still have more control and the Uralic people would slowly adopt and mold into said Slavic culture.
@@memoria8732 well yes and no. Ofcourse the high class and city people would be speaking russian and melding into slavic culture but the peasantry probably wouldn't especially if prothestant scholars begin sermons in the local language. The same dynamic happened both in finland and estonia where high class and cityfolk spoke a different language from the peasantry. Now without Moscows russification of the eastern finnic people, they wouldn't fade into slavic cultures because it would have very little merit for them. Using west finnic people from our time period as an example is better than lithuanians/poles atleast imo because of the similarties in the cultures.
Why is the music in this so freaking amazing? Especially in the Christian Russia chapter.
get boxed jimmy!! the lore expands, thanks for vid and entertaining ad
Please make a "What if stronger Poland?" video.
Let me have some hope
I feel like half of this video is just what if Novgorod didn't die and I love it. It was such a unique country with an almost futuristic form of government compared to their contemporaries. I think I could see Novgorod taking a similar role to the Republic of Venice, becoming the de facto trading republic of the baltic and arctic seas. One thing that would be an almost permanent problem for Novgorod, would be sea access, like for Russia in our timeline, but with no way to get even close to the Black Sea or the Pacific, I could imagine Novgorod being much more focused on conquering or gaining access to various baltic and scandinavian ports.
I love the deep lore that's developing in Cody's ad reads
That was one of the best ad read I have ever seen, like we are talking internet historian level of good
Honestly I'm surprised that there's a part two.
I'm surprised you haven't talked about the romanovs and how they would end up in this alt world of Muslim Russia, I really would hope you would make a part 3 on this discussion 🙏
Given the fertility of Muslim Sultans, ROmanovs could've never been installed on the throne. Rurikids would've still ruled over the lands. Who knows, maybe so it happens that Ivan the Terrible is still born and came to power, but with a large number of brothers and half-brothers and large number of sons he would have comapred to what he had in out history.
Again, this aspect comes into how courtly life and royal marriage would work in Muslim Rus - like in out history or more Ottoman-like, with concubines and etc. (I say Ottoman-like, because i have almost no knowledge on how actually Arab, Persian and Egyptian Sultanates worked in this aspect. I only know th basis of Ottoman court life.)
Hey, Cody shouted me out with the Siege of Vienna comment!
And he accurately depicted me in a dumpster on fire! Impressive!
That sponsorship ad was priceless!
Idea for part 3: where does Galicia-Volhynia fit in all of this? It was the westernmost Rus' successor state and the one that influenced modern-day Ukraine. To defend against the Golden Horde Galicia (later Ruthenia) formed strong relations with the Papal States and at one point considered adopting catholicism so that the Pope protects the kingdom and declares a crusade on the Mongols. That never happened, of course, but if much of the Rus' is muslim and Halych and Volyn' still were influenced by western European culture and Philosophy, Galicia would adopt catholicism and a crusade would happen, but it would just be in northern Ukraine and Belarus. There would be a 3-way divide in the Rus', and neither Poland nor Lithuania would dare touch Ruthenia, even if it was in a civil war as brutal as the Galicia-Volhynia war of 1340-1392. Wars between Russia and Ruthenia would still happen but one would never conquer the other, and it would quickly devolve into a cold war.
Many depends on outcome of the Polish-Teutonic War (1326-1332) and if Casimir would be a king only for Poland's east or for West too. Dukes of Glogow also wanted the royal crown for themselves and were related to Teutonic Grand Master. Secondary what also would play a role in scenario is if Galician ruler George II Boleslaus - Polish Piast relative survived and ruled the realm.
@@jacekwojciechowski3679 Poland only became interested in the lan after Piast rule fell in Galicia and most local nobles fighting for power were mongolophillic. Even before that royal marriages happened between the 2 states and they were fairly close allies most of the time.
Not sure why you assume Poland Lithuania would unite in this timeline or why an Islamic Rus would still maintain control when a Pagan Lithuania would probably conquer a large portion of that previously Rus land like in our timeline
Maybe both muslim and luthanian unite
Because muslims have free religion practise policy unlike crusaders
And slowly they convert to islam
@@manofwar2354 Muslims despised pagans (or polytheists in general) just as much as Christians did. For them only the "book faiths" like their own religion, Christianity and Judaism mattered, the rest wasn't treated as equal subjects.
@@dinohermann1887 muslims despised polytheist yes
But did not forcibly convert them like catholic
You can find many religion in muslim lands exist but not in christian lands
@@manofwar2354 However, these faiths, that still survive in the middle east to this day, are subjects of discrimination and sometimes even prosecution by their states they live in, unfortunately (like the Yazidis or the Druze).
@@dinohermann1887 no they get more rights in goverments loooool
U never lived in middle east each discremenate the other
Yezidi and druze are offshot of islam
Christian and jews nobody care about them
I hope you'll do a part 3
That ending ad was gold!
The lore of the ad reads just got really interesting
Regarding the sect Russia could've follow in this alternate timeline, Russia would probably follow the sect of the place where Vlad sent his voyagers to learn about islam. Idk where envoys were sent though.
That's if vlad even existed in this timeline considering the sultanate would've probably led to different leaders than the Tsardom
I could’ve a wrote it was a different video you said you would do a part 2 for
That was an ingenius advert!
I'm sure by now you've heard of the infamous ChatGPT and all the rumors of AI becoming our robotic overlords by the year circa 3069 but coming back in into frame, I think it would be interesting if you had made say like a series where you input a simple alternate scenario and interpret the response and make that into a video?
Fun fact: "the Monomachus' hat", as they call the crown of the Great-Prince of Moscow, looks quite similar to the crown of the Khan, as shown on Kazan coins.Theyjust added a cross on the top. This is quite symptomatic of how much Rus' borrowed from their former Asian overlords.
Yes, a Protestant Novgorod close to Germany and Scandinavia is quite probable!
About Poland, I'd see its binational republic evolving in a federation of three entities, the third one being Ukraine.
And about the shi'a/sunni schism, in spite of Persian influence, all the Turcic emirates stayed Sunni, with a multitude of Sufic sects, so I guess the emirate of Moscow would be the same.
The ad at the end is golden. Truly greatness
Very interesting so far! keep it up!
What if Mary Queen of Scots had son with the King of France resulting in a King of England, Ireland, Scotland and France.
Since Henry VIII Wales was part of England (this is why Wales isn’t on the flag)
Thank you for inspiring my next EU4 campaign, Cody!
lol
Really good video.
Literally the best outro I think I’ve ever seen
He finally made a 2nd one
Has anyone ever heard of the Chinese Admiral, Zheng He? This isn’t relevant to this video but he explored everything from Eastern Africa to China and right as China became isolationist, he was petitioning to go around the Horn of Africa or cross the pacific and he was denied because of the new Chinese regime and this was all decades before Columbus? Can we get an alternate history video on “what if China didn’t become isolationist” featuring Zeng He!!!
Yes part 2 awesome
Hey cody you should look at Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade since it's a pretty interesting alternate timeline
Good video Cody. Now that you've finished this scenario, how about this one? Since the Walt Disney company is going to celebrate its 100th anniversary, how do you try this for a future video of yours, "What if Walter Elias Disney didn't die in 1966"?
he died in 1967 instead! Frankly, there wouldn't be much of a difference, he was not really involved in movies at that point and preffered imagining Epcot which probably wouldn't have worked anyway.
Let's not forget the "reign" of the Rashidun Sultanate -because the Sultan in Cairo still recognized Aleppo as The Caliph- which was defeated & annexed by the Sublime Porte. It was not necessarily "Al-Musku" & the Sublime Porte against Poland and the Habsburgs, even if they were both Sunni.
u mean The Rashidun caliphate, because the caliph is the leader of all Muslims, not just a sultan.
Love the sponsorships.
Remarkably majestic shots.
Now I need a stronger Poland episode
The Luther Rose was the last thing I expected to see in this thumbnail lol
/joke
lutheranism is the TRUE way of islam inshallah
/joke
The floating Cody sponsor head case lore thickens further.
I was dieng for part two!
Just came and there are already people saying how awesome the video is... 1 minute after upload.
I hope Jimmy enjoys his time in the Philippines
2 videos in one month? Cody, you're applying us!
Bro that sponsorship was hilarious!
There are two Novgorods in Russia and all the videos with the city are from the wrong one
Just gonna throw this out there, but one other thing I think could happen in this scenario is the Teutonic Order ends up packing up and moving into Livonia. I mean, in our timeline the Teutonic Knights came into Prussia and Livonia specifically to fight the Pagan Livs, Lets, Samagallians, etc. and later also the city of Novgorod. In our timeline, the conversion of Lithuania to Catholicism kinda hits the Teutonic Order in Prussia hard cuz, well, their whole purpose there was to fight the pagans, who are now Christian. This is further exasperated following the Battle of Tannenburg and later the 13 Years War. So what I’m saying is maybe, just maybe, the Teutonic Order adapts to this shift and moves it’s headquarters from Marienburg to Riga as the new center for crusading activities… possibly this takes place after they lose Marienburg in the 13 Years war (instead of moving to Königsberg like in our timeline). Possibly they just immediately accept Lithuania’s conversion to Catholicism in the 1380’s and somehow maintain friendly relations with Poland and Lithuania (a bit far fetched, but maybe).
You know, this whole scenario is just kinda fun to play around with.
I was thirsty for this second part
Keeping making part 2 of videos
Tbh I was way more interested in hearing about how things were going to be past the Urals
Agreed
Probably more Islam in China and Japan given how well it spreads
the sakhas and tuvans would be free!
@@Game_Hero they are already free
@@Trotilov14-88 Like, really free, sovereign nations.
I would like a video on japan becoming muslim.
"In the late Meiji period, close relations were forged between Japanese military elites with an Asianist agenda and Muslims to find a common cause with those suffering under the yoke of Western hegemony. In 1906, widespread propaganda campaigns were aimed at Muslim nations with journals reporting that a Congress of religions was to be held in Japan where the Japanese would seriously consider adopting Islam as the national religion and that the Emperor was at the point of becoming a Muslim"
Jolly good show.
Man released 3 videos in a month this is epic
So, you are telling me Poland CAN into space?!
I wonder if you'll do one on the Yugoslavia never breaking up, or the Great Recession never Happening
That would be good yeah!
Hm. I think one consequence of Yugoslavia never breaking up (assuming that Milošević is out of the picture) is a much more pro-Western Russia. The NATO bombing of Serbia was very unpopular in Russia and pushed it towards greater anti-Americanism. So we would likely either have a Russia that is still democratic, or if we are going to see it slip back into authoritarianism, it would probably be very different - much more aligned with the West, something along the lines of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos.
for the second one, its impossible. thats how capitalism works
It would probably be Pro-Russia and a Chinese ally today
@@rezajafari6395 the NATO bombings could still happen because the Yugoslav Wars can still happen but Yugoslavia (Serbia) would just have to win.
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U should be able to do this very esaly with your research u did for this video...
Can u do a history video on what happened in our timeline.. may just be a 10-15 minute video because your so good at summarizing
I'd like to see an expansion on what if the Norse hadn't called it quits on Canada. A Norse/Algonquian nation-state starting up during the Middle Ages would be very interesting to see, and it could conceivably have happened had the Norse not left Canada. Ditto the ripple effects that such a settlement and country could have had on other Amerindian polities. The tribes could have easily adopted ironworking from the Norse and perhaps horses and other Old World livestock as well. And how would such a country play out in matters of world affairs?
Ditto if the Nordic countries had stayed pagan instead of adopting Christianity. What if the Norse never converted to Christianity but instead kept worshiping Odin, Thor, Freyja, and them?
or if the norse kept paegenism
im a simple man. When althisthub uploads i dro everything im doin and watches the video.
this video is so interesting
Best sponsor cut EVER