Chapter 1490: How Did the World Become Like This!
The Queen of Egypt and the Pope of Rome waited a long time for the "bad news" that Constantinople was conquered by the Great Mongols.
Although Emperor Alexios was not a qualified politician, he was probably not a brilliant military strategist. But in the last five years of his life, he performed very well, leading an epic battle for the defense of Constantinople. The fortress city, which occupied only one triangular headland, was turned into a burial place for countless Mongols and Persians.
And the vigorous defense of Constantinople led by Emperor Alexios is not without significance for later Western history.
According to later Western historians, three of the four great powers of the West can be said to have risen from the ruins of Constantinople.
That's right, of course, there are powerful countries in the Western world!
After all, the three great powers of the Chinese world are still holding back their strength to dominate the world, and it is impossible to devote their main energy to the West.
So the countries of the Western world also have a chance to rise!
The first Western power to rise on the ruins of Constantinople was the Mongols...... Mongolia in Europe! Mongolia is only a pound. Temujin was born, and Temujin of this time and space was born on the banks of the Ural River, and was a European.
So Great Mongolia is also a European country!
Immediately after the capture of Constantinople, Temujin renamed it the Mughal Fortress and moved the capital of the Great Mongol Kingdom from Brusa to the Mughul Fort.
For hundreds of years, the Great Mongol State was centered on the Mughul Fortress, which on the one hand controlled large swaths of Asia, including Asia Minor and Persia. On the one hand, there was a massive expansion into the Balkans and the Apennine Peninsula. The result was the Great Mongol Empire, which encompassed Asia Minor, Persia, Italy, the Caucasus, and most of the Balkans.
At the same time, after moving the capital to Munghul, Temujin also set about dividing up the great empire he had built. He divided the eastern part of the empire, including parts of the river, Khorezm, part of the Kipchak steppe, and suzerainty over the Golden Horde, to his second son, Chagatai, thus establishing a Chagatai Khanate, also known as the Eastern Mongol Empire, which dominated Central Asia and fought against the Western Song Empire for decades.
However, this empire is more of a steppe country, and it cannot be compared with the Great Mongol Empire with the Mughal Fort as the core. The latter has long been one of the most advanced countries in Europe.
After the Great Mongolia, the Western powers, of course, are Great Egypt!
Great Egypt, like Great Mongolia, benefited from the fall of Eastern Rome.
In a way, it was Egypt and Mongolia that divided Eastern Rome!
Because during Temujin's attack on Constantinople, the Egyptian queen Sophia did not sit idly by, but took the opportunity to take a large area of Eastern Roman possessions, including Crete, Cyprus and Greece, for herself.
After the fall of Constantinople and the martyrdom of Emperor Alexios (who became St. Alexios), the Egyptian queen Sophia immediately declared herself the Empress of Rome (or Augusta) and merged Rome and Egypt.
That is, Greece, Crete, Cyprus and other places were all annexed to Egypt.
Later, Sophia I, who became the Empress of Rome, launched another war against the Kingdom of Sicily, which was controlled by the Hohenstaufen dynasty. Forced Conrad IV to cede the Kingdom of Sicily.
After seizing Sicily, Sophia I allied with the Republic of Venice, which was heavily threatened by the Mongols, and directed his expansion against Sardinia, which was owned by the Republic of Genoa, and completely occupied it around 1236.
By this point, the Kingdom of Egypt had taken control of the main islands of the Mediterranean, including Cyprus, Crete, Sicily, Sardinia, and the Balearic Islands (Corsica, owned by the Republic of Pisa, was not occupied).
It also controlled Ceuta and Nagia at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, as well as the Sinai Peninsula. Thus becoming the hegemon of the Mediterranean!
In addition to conquering the Mediterranean, Sophia I and her heirs also made the European continent the main direction of Egypt's expansion.
When Italy was invaded by the Mongols, and Rome was broken by the Great Khan of the Great Mongol Haidu, he easily occupied all the Italian areas south of Rome.
Later, the Egyptian Empire (Third Rome) allied with the Holy Roman Empire, which was controlled by the Habsburgs, and turned the Free City of Hamburg into an Egyptian Concession...... Egypt has a concession in Germany, and the hamburg in this time and space is full of Egyptian style!
Through the Hamburg Concession, the Egyptian Empire expanded into Britain, Ireland, and the Île-de-France, establishing concessions in the ports of Dover, Dublin, and Calais.
Finally, Egypt also gained ownership of the Gulf of Aden through an alliance with the Mamluks, thus firmly controlling access to the Red Sea.
By the 14th century of the Western calendar, the Egyptian Empire had turned into a world empire spanning the four continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States!
Proper Great Egypt!
In later history, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan were all popular areas for European refugees to emigrate......
As for the third great power in the Western world, it is also surprising that it is not the Holy Roman Empire, nor the Kingdom of France, but the Ayyubid-Great Food Empire!
The reason why this is so is also very normal. Before the fall of Baghdad, the glorious center of the Celestial civilization, was there any place in Germany and France that could compare with Baghdad?
In terms of economy, culture, commerce, science and technology, Baghdad far surpasses Paris and Vienna......
And the devastating Hulegü conquest did not exist in this time and space.
Hulegu still existed (he was born in 1217, and Tuolei died in that year), but the Tuolei did not capture the throne of the Ögedai clan at all—Tuolei was killed in the Battle of Yirebao, and it was impossible for him to inherit most of Temujin's army.
After the death of Tulei, Ögedei became the "youngest son" of the guards, and as a matter of course, he inherited the throne of Temujin and most of the army. The Tractor faction will not have the strength to launch a conquest of Baghdad.
Moreover, between Ahvaz and Baghdad in Persia, the island of Abadan on the Shatt al-Arab was a colony of the Eastern Song Dynasty. The Eastern Song Dynasty deployed marines and river fleets on the island of Abbataan, which made the Mongols a bit of a mouse-thrower.
Therefore, the Xiatai-Shatt al-Arab line was not broken through by the Mongols in this time and space, and it also saved the core area of the Tianfang Sect civilization from the destruction of the war.
However, the Eastern Song Dynasty did not interfere with the internal replacement of the Heavenly Fang Sect. So the Ayyubid dynasty, founded by Saladin the Kurd, later defeated the Seljuk dynasty of Iraq (not the Great Seljuk) and succeeded in taking control of Baghdad. The Ayyubid-Great Food Empire was established in which the Ayyubid sultans and the Abbasid caliphs coexisted.
In later history, this empire not only preserves the civilization and knowledge of the Celestial Catechism, but also further absorbs Greek philosophy and Oriental (Chinese) natural philosophy, and carries forward the philosophical university in Baghdad. It is one of the three most prestigious universities in the West to compete with Alexandria's Sophia University (founded by Sophia I) and Mont Forgart's University of Light. For the development of Western civilization, countless talents have been cultivated.
While preserving and developing the Celestial Doctrine Civilization, the Ayyub-Great Food Empire also retained the genes of the Celestial Sect's maritime civilization. In the black African region, there was fierce competition with the Illuminati and Christian civilizations.
In addition, since Central Asia, Eastern European steppes and the Caucasus Mountains became the lands of Mongolia, the Golden Horde, the Western Song Dynasty and the Western Liang, the Ayyub-Great Food Empire had no place to buy Mamluk slave warriors, so the Mamluk dynasty did not exist in this time and space. The power of the Ayyubid Sultan remained for hundreds of years until modern times.
The Abbasid caliphs became long-lasting religious leaders, along with Pope Avignon (the Roman pope who moved to Avignon after the fall of Rome), Patriarch Alexander (Orthodox Patriarch), and Baku......
The fourth of the four great powers of the West is, of course, the Golden Horde, which occupies Kievan Rus'.
Because it occupies a black soil belt that is not very coveted, but it is extremely rich. The Golden Horde was given good opportunities for the next few hundred years.
The Mongols in the south were too busy fighting with the Holy Roman Empire, the Egyptian Empire, and the Ayyubid-Eclipse Empire for supremacy, and had no strength to deal with the Golden Horde.
The countries of Lithuania and Poland in Eastern Europe were not opponents of the Golden Horde at all, and became the targets of the Golden Horde's long-term encroachment and annexation.
The only thing that bothered these "Golden Hordes" was the sparse national population.
As the Golden Horde moved westward to the Volga Valley, only 500,000 people remained, and later suffered heavy losses in the war with the Mongols. After the war with the Mongols, the Golden Horde completed urbanization prematurely. Urbanization, in turn, limits the population growth rate of the Golden Horde.
So in the 14th and 15th centuries of the Western calendar, their population was still a minority in the black soil belt of Eastern Europe.
In addition to the four great powers of the West, the three great powers of China. In the 14th century, there were five major powers in the world, including the Tianzhu Three Powers and the Black African Twin Heroes.
The three heroes of Tianzhu are Western Xia, Polo and Pandia. Among them, the Western Xia dominated the northwest of Tianzhu and Afghanistan, while the Polo controlled the Ganges River valley and the northeast of Tianzhu. Pandia is an ancient Brahmanical state founded by the Tamils, which existed for nearly 2,000 years. In the 14th century of the Western calendar, it rose to become a powerful power controlling the southern part of Tianzhu.
The two Buddhist kingdoms, a Brahmin kingdom, plus a number of princes who believed in Tianfang and Brahmanism, together constituted the history of Tianzhu in the late Middle Ages.
It's not calm, but it's not much chaos, it's basically the three powerful countries happily going to decay together. And the three heroes of Huaxia did not show much desire for Tianzhu...... The Western Song Dynasty could not reach it, and the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty only cared about the profits of trade, so the people of Tianzhu were relatively stable and did not become a colony of China, if the Western Xia conquest was not considered.
As for black Africa, it is undoubtedly progressive in this time and space!
Uncle Hei didn't know what luck he had, but he actually became the beneficiary of the Chinese world order.
First of all, no one sells them as a commodity in international trade anymore.
Mainly because no one bought it...... The Celestial Sect civilization has lost control of the maritime trade, has no money to buy, and there is not much demand - just a little territory, the era of oil has not yet come, what kind of black slaves to buy?
Secondly, two relatively powerful black empires emerged on the lands of black Africa.
One is the Mali Empire in West Africa. The country developed with the support of the Eastern Song Empire. Mali is rich in gold and salt mines. It is also close to the "ivory states" of the Eastern Song Dynasty's colonies in West Africa, and it is also a buffer between the ivory states and the Egyptian empire, so it has the opportunity for development. By the 14th century, the Mali Empire had become a decent black empire.
And the other black empire is the Zanzibar Empire, which is a very peculiar country. It is a religious state led by the holy woman of the Enlightenment Church and ruled the African coastline south of Somalia and north of South Africa, with Zanzibar as the center of rule.
However, it is impossible for the Holy Maiden of Light in Baku to govern the East African country known as the "Kingdom of Light", so she will appoint an agent to govern in Zanzibar, usually a high-ranking member of the Illuminati. What they are pursuing in Zanzibar is also in line with the teachings of the Bright Heavens Doctrine. So the slave trade is absolutely forbidden!
And because the Bright Kingdom in Zanzibar is the only direct territory of the Bright Heavens Religion (Baku is the territory of Mongolia and does not belong to the Holy Maiden), the Bright Heavens Religion is very careful about the governance of the Bright Country.
Under the painstaking management of successive generations of saints and "surrogate saints", the Kingdom of Light (also known as Zanzibar) has become the most civilized and progressive region in Africa outside of Egypt.
Of course, the dominant people in this kingdom of light have always been Brightness of Persian descent. Black people were in the majority, but they had little political power until hundreds of years later......
Although the blacks of this time and space escaped the tragic fate of being sold into slavery, the evil slavery system still inevitably appeared.
And it's still on the American continent!
Because the American continent is far from the Central Plains, the population growth is slow, and at the same time, the land is fertile and the resources are extremely abundant, which requires a large number of labor to develop.
In the case of an extreme shortage of free labor, Zhixin Yuezhou, who was eager to speed up the development of the east coast of the Americas, thought of the criminal slave trade!
However, he did not extend his criminal hand of slavery to Mali and the ivory states, but to the European continent, which was invaded by the Mongols, was full of refugees, and human life was very worthless.
Countless white slaves were transported to the American continent by ships of evil slave traders!
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