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diff --git a/WORLDBUILDING.md b/WORLDBUILDING.md index 3605bc3..85ade29 100644 --- a/WORLDBUILDING.md +++ b/WORLDBUILDING.md @@ -123,7 +123,10 @@ Song Huizong's northern campaigns succeed instead of ending in the Jingkang disa - **Already substantially Islamicized by ~1300** (historical pattern: Ghazan Khan converted 1295) - Persian bureaucrats are the administrative backbone (mirror of Byzantium's role in Great Khanate) - Culturally evolving into a Mongol-dynasty Persian-Islamic empire -- **Egypt**: governed by Mongol military governor (replacing Turkic Mamluk elite). Mongol hereditary military aristocracy replaces the non-hereditary Mamluk slave-soldier system. Arab/Coptic administrative class retained. Al-Azhar and Islamic institutions preserved. Tendency toward autonomy over time (Egypt always separates eventually — Tulunids, Fatimids, Muhammad Ali pattern). By V3 era: likely a Mongol-blooded but fully Arabicized/Islamicized dynasty. +- **Egypt**: governed by Mongol military governor (replacing Turkic Mamluk elite). Mongol hereditary military aristocracy replaces the non-hereditary Mamluk slave-soldier system. Arab/Coptic administrative class retained. Al-Azhar and Islamic institutions preserved. Tendency toward autonomy over time (Egypt always separates eventually — Tulunids, Fatimids, Muhammad Ali pattern). + - **Governor's double game**: Mongol-blooded governor exploits Sunni-Shia tension to build local power base. Protects Sunni institutions (Al-Azhar) against Tabriz's Shia centralization → gains loyalty of local Egyptian elites. Plays both sides: loyal Ilkhanate vassal to Tabriz, protector of Sunni faith to Cairo. Secret contacts with Hafsid Tunisia (Sunni center). + - Libya (Tripolitania/Cyrenaica): gray zone between Shia Egypt and Sunni Tunisia. Neither fully controls it. + - By V3 era: likely fully independent Arabicized dynasty maintaining fiction of Ilkhanate membership. ### Mongol Khanate (Mongol Ulus) (Far East) - **Mongol homeland** (now the imperial periphery, not the center) @@ -576,6 +579,27 @@ After Timur's death (~1405), his empire fragments. Combined with Great Khanate's --- +## North Africa / Maghreb + +### Status at 1425: Calm Before the Storm +- **Morocco (Marinid dynasty)**: Declining. Wattasid regents gaining power. Lost Ceuta to Portugal (1415). +- **Algeria (Zayyanid dynasty)**: Weak, squeezed between Morocco and Tunisia. Often vassalized by one neighbor. +- **Tunisia (Hafsid dynasty)**: Golden age under Abu Faris (1394-1434). Mediterranean trade hub. **Rising as Sunni Islam's spiritual capital** (Hafsid caliphate claim increasingly recognized). +- Trans-Saharan gold trade (from Mali/Songhai) continues unchanged — North Africa's most stable revenue source + +### Coming Threats (not yet materialized by 1425) +- **Portugal**: Will continue pressing Moroccan coast from Ceuta base +- **Aragon**: Future North African coastal outposts likely, but not yet established +- **Portuguese West African exploration**: Once sea route to West African gold coast is established (~1440s+), it bypasses Saharan caravan routes → undermines North African middleman economy +- **No Ottoman Empire to rescue them**: Historically, Ottomans conquered North Africa (1500s) and protected it from Spanish invasion. In this timeline, North Africa must face European pressure alone. + +### Sunni-Shia Fault Line +- Runs through Libya (Tripolitania/Cyrenaica) between Sunni Tunisia and Shia-ruled Egypt +- Sunni scholars fleeing Egypt's Shia rulers migrate to Tunis and Fez → boosts Maghreb's Islamic scholarly prestige +- Tunisia-Egypt relations tense: religious rivalry + Egyptian governor's double game (courting Sunni support while nominally Shia) + +--- + ## Religion in This World ### Eastern Orthodoxy |