[Torie]

Now you are stealing my repertoire, in this case one that I picked up from Churchill, perfervid. Have you no shame? You should write a book about history if Mohammed had been born 20 years later. Would we now be at the end of history if that had occured, putting aside the Chinese?

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History has a way of reasserting itself no matter what. But, to be sure, if the Muslim conquest had failed, then it's quite probable in my view that the Roman Empire would've been restored to the full height and reach of its power by the turn of the first millennium, and there's certainly an argument to be made that much of what history we would have now would be internal disputes in one sprawling imperium stretching at least from Iberia to Persia.

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By the way, the alternate history timeline that has always fascinated me the most is what would've happened if the Byzantine Empress Irene (frigid b!tch) had accepted the proposal of marriage by the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne.

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PS. I'll keep hands off of perfervid from now on! I confess: I stole it from you. :)