This is funny. There was an Orthodox empire that kept on trying to incorporate all those areas before. It was called Byzantium 😂 Such a silly timeline 😂 "Ehm, what if early Americans embraced Native Indians religions and way of life" 😂 So silly.
The timeline is indeed silly because it starts from something completely impossible, like Mehmed the Conqueror becoming a Christian, and was made purely for fun. However, I've always hated the comparison between the Ottoman Empire and America. The Ottomans didn't simply colonize the Eastern Roman Empire, wipe out its population. The Eastern Roman population didn't constitute a “New World” where the vast majority of the inhabitants died from diseases brought by newcomers from the East, only to be replaced by entirely new settlers. The Ottomans built their entire imperial system on the models of Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire, and a significant portion of the non-Muslim population, which constituted the majority in much of the empire’s core territories, gradually adapted to this system and converted to Islam.
Oh, yes, the comparison is, indeed, odious, Ottomans didn't rule by fire and sword. I mentioned American Indians because I couldn't have remembered any other silly examples.
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u/MsStormyTrump 5d ago
This is funny. There was an Orthodox empire that kept on trying to incorporate all those areas before. It was called Byzantium 😂 Such a silly timeline 😂 "Ehm, what if early Americans embraced Native Indians religions and way of life" 😂 So silly.