Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-25205072-20150422083509/@comment-5435873-20150711170112

At this point, the muslims seem nearing the peak of their grasp on the middle east. With a stronger Byzantine, and less troops and resources in the Crusader States, there would be a whole load of mistrust between Western Europe and The Byzantine Empire. At this point, the crusades might become less of a Christians vs Muslims to a Catholics vs Orthodox. As a result, the Papal States would start convincing the rest of Western Europe to start thinking for themselves, in an attempt to get people to denouce the Orthodox Church. However, this would only allow people to further see the corruption of the Catholic Church, which would start off the Protestant Reformation earlier. This could lead to the Protestants having to ally themselves with Mosul and Aleppo to remove the Orthodox Faith from the Holy Land. If the alliance were to work (Not in removing the Byzantines completely, but in strengthening Protestant influence in the Anatolian region), this could lead to Protestantism spreading to India and Tibet, an revamped silk road through the Seljuks instead of the Byzantine, and France and the HRE possibly converting fully to protestantism.

(Note: this is less of a reply to your posts, this is more so of a narrative of global events taking place during your posts)