What if the Crusades were successful? 

I'd say the byzantines would most likely survive in one form our another due to Russia starting to exist and eventually Russia would become a long term allie of the byzantines and support them and stop them from being conquered.

I had an idea for a video or series. The premise is that you take an average or incompetent leader and give them the leadership ability and intelligence of say Alexander the Great or Augustus. So for example what if Czar Nicholas was a genius. There is also the opposite making someone who was a genius into an average or incompetent leader.

>Byzantine survives Happy Russian fleet sounds

Another domino effect of this timeline is that without the Ottomans killing the Hungarian king in 1526, Austria does not get personal unions over Hungary and Bohemia, meaning they do not rise to power in the same way as in our timeline. This means there is no Austria to check France's expansion into Italy and the HRE.

Would Europeans have the same urge to explore Atlantic as in OTL?

I still think a large Jewish population from Europe would've moved to the Levant over time and built communities due to religious doctrine and mercantile connections, seeing it as their homeland, the difference being that they wouldn't control the state. The Jews would have an eye towards Zion when faced with persecution all the same. It's just that they'd be living in a catholic majority nation that probably has some sort of variation of Latin used as the lingua-franca among all the crusader peoples and Hebrew would probably only be used in a liturgical sense. I don't see the plight of the Jewish people ever changing, and I see them being a substantially large minority in the Holy Land.

This is a great video, so Mr. Possible History and the Crusader states being dominant forces in the Middle East would change European policy. But don't understand why the Crusaders feared the Byzantines would conquer their lost territories? I know some of the crusaders want to land in the Middle East, but should they see a stronger Byzantine Empire as a potential ally against any hostile Muslim power or the Mongol Empire? If the Byzantine Empire remained stronger with its lost territories and did significant reforms that could improve the empire. The realm is more liberal and democratic than the United Kingdom and has the Byzantine Emperor as a figurehead symbol of the nation's unity and the people. Who knows? Maybe the Romavos would be married by the Byzantine Imperial family, and we might have a Byzantine Emperor Peter the Great and a possible personal union of Russia and Byzantine, similar to the UK and Hanover. Did you know George III was a member of the House of Hanovrain? It was a German royal house that ruled the kingdom of Hanover and had kings who were from Hanover and ruled Great Britain until Victoria became Queen of Great Britain. I think the Byzantine Empire might survive in the modern day and have a constitutional monarchy similar to Japan with the Japanese Emperor, and the Byzantines could even have a claim on Russia's entire since they had some view of orthodox Christianity and had no problem converting to the religion and modernize Russia way faster than the Romavos ( except for Peter the Great, Nicholas I and Alexander II) and have a better time industrializing and catching catch with the rest of world. I think the Palaiologos could survive with Maragaret Paleloga with her eldest son, Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, as Emperor and possibly with Godscall Paleologue as the Last Paleologue Empress of the Palaiologos Dynasty. I think the Byzantine Empire might be in good hands by royal houses such as Gluccksburg, Mountbatten, or Romanov. In your opinion, which of these royal houses would have done a better job, and explain why? This is a great video, Mr. Possible History, so please keep doing a fantastic job and always try your best? Also, did you see my what-if ideas, and were they too much for you?

What if Ogedei Khan did not die in 1241 leading to the retreat of Subutai Khan from his campaign in Europe? What if the Magna Carta was not signed? I know in itself it wasn't that innovative or decisive, but it became a real precedent for Parliamentary rights in England influencing the balance of power in the country. If the Kings of England had prevented the emergence of Parliament during the late Middele Ages, they might have gone the way of France with absolutism down the line. What if a fleet of pox ridden Vikings landed in America and started contact with natives but fleeing south every time the skraelings become sick. Maybe they even have horses. These and the diseases spread throughout the continent and by 1492, most are immunised to smallpox and have horses. What if Charlemagne did not give territory to the pope, no papal state What if Napoleon was born in another country? either Corsica does not belong to France but to Austria or his father emigrates to America. Basically what if an other country than France had that kind of military leadership, he would not take control of the state necessarily but any war they are involved in would have him as a general or even as the head of the army. What if the space race did not end? What if nuclear weapons were easier to make, leading to more proliferation? (maybe a scientist leaks plans to every countries for small nukes to spread the power) What if france became fascist in February 1934, invaded Germany in 1936 and split it off in different smaller states, giving parts to poland, Austria, Danemark and keeping their own share? What if in 1935 a french civil war similar to the spanish similar had broken out? What if the Yorkist won the Battle of Bosworth? Basically changing the Renaissance English Dynasty. What if Greek demi-god heroes were real and active from Mycean Greece all the way to the Hellenistic period? Or maybe even later, some roman lines like Ceasar claimed descent from Venus and other deities.

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What if the allies didnt guarantee Poland

Great video, still binging, but keep forgetting to comment on them all!

11:35 I am pretty sure the Crusaders agreed to recognize the Mongols as Suzreigns to avoid war. 12:03 The majority were most certainly not Muslim when the conquest happened and even less as they stayed there longer. 16:53 Again, it was already majority Christian when the first Crusades happened, just not latin or greek christian.

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The first thing the first Crusade had to do is take out The Sultanate of RUM then they could have proceeded to Jerusalem and taken the city. With a revived Eastern Roman Empire to protect the Kingdom.

Enjoyed it. Great video.

The Safavid dynasty would still rise in Iran as the history of Iran doesn't seem to be affected much here. They would convert Iran to Shia Islam and without Ottoman rivalry would conquer Iraq, eastern Anatolia and maybe Hijaz but after that is hard to predict.

You kind of glossed over Nur al din of syria. Nur al Din basically set everything up for Saladin. Without Nur al Din, Saladin wouldnt have owned syria. Nur al Din also destroyed the county of Edessa. Also even more important than Saladin is Baybars. Baybars literally destroyed the crusaders and was one of the main figures behind the rise of the Mamluks.

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Does the european age of exploration still occur?

1) What if Buddhism didn't lost it's dominance in Central Asia and indian subcontinent? 2)What if caste system in indian subcontinent was weak 3) What if Indo greek kingdom conquered entire Indian subcontinent

this time line would be a better place to live for sure

Honestly you forgot that the byzantines get a good dynasty every couple hundred year so they might rebound and reconquer bulgaria and most of Asia Minor and maybe serbia to but thats streching it

It would be an interesting situation

Good vid. A quick correction, in English we pronounce “muslim” as “muzlum.”

I think that what if the ottomans took Vienna in 1529 is really good

soo non muslim balkans...hmm less chaotic

Wouldn't Egypt become coptic Christian majority. Being surrounded on all sides by Christians and likly economic subjugation of Egypt

in order for the crusades to work well you need the bizantines to commit. I think what you really want us to increase the regions around bizantium and to take egypt in order to cut off islam from africa

Horrible take on the Byzantines

0:25 Muslim rethoric against the Crusaders got more heated the longer they were there and modern muslims certainly see it as an epic religious war.

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i see the Byzantine empire surviving, maybe even reconquering Anatolia, here is where i would say i disagree with you, because there was no 4th crusade and period of Latin control of the byzantine lands, there is no Italian merchant colonies in the Crimea due to the byzantines being able to shut them out of the black sea, no Caffa means no transmission of the black death back to Europe, is there still a plague? yes, but not to the same extent. The Byzantines would never be a great power like they once were, but they would be able to Hellenize and Christianize the Turkic Muslims in Anatolia, i would say their frontier cities would be Trebizond and Maybe Antioch if they played their cards right with places like Armenia and Georgia being puppets. The Franks, Germans and Italians mix with each other, The Arabs and remnant Greeks, Assyrians and groups like that to form and Outremer culture and one "Levantine Kingdom' that may or may not eventually fall under the Byzantines as a vassal, but this is just my humble opinion as to what would happen, Love the Video

Why will Roman Empire fall? They bounce back for century from many threats, and without crusaders and osmans they can live untill today.

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What if the ottomans won the first siege of vienna

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What if King John the bad of england actually converted to islam?

Even if they unifie they would still not have enough numbers. They would never go deeper than the walls of gaint city Damascus. Thus, what you talked about even in the best of conditions is impossible. Also , such population would overtime convert to Islam as in overtime line. Egypt was lead by Shia but majority of the population was still Suni. There is a difference between the leaders and rest of the population. Saladin didn't just like that change the creed. It happened because it was Suni majority population wise of the citizens. Iraq doesn't have a Shi majority but it is close. If you add Kurds as Suni to the Suni side as they are majority Suni the suni side would be 51%. I don't see Crusaders taking Damascus. Also, Muslims would always go for Jerusalem.

No Armenian Genocide. Big W for Armenians

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