No Abraham

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The reality simply titled "No Abraham" reflects the state of the world in which early tribes and settlements around Israel never documented their tales of Abraham, thus eradicating all Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. For the purposes of this page we will use the Common Era dating system, despite the obvious impossibilities of using this system within the reality itself. The page for this reality is under construction.

Events shared with our Reality
Scientists in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology and paleontology understand the current scientific theorems on the Big Bang, universal cooling, the formation of the Sun and the Earth that, most believe lead to basic biogenesis and, over three billion years, the evolution of basic cellular life to the Human Era, some 12,010 years ago.

It is believed that "modern man" (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) spread from central Africa outward, replacing more primitive forms of man (Homo Neanderthalensis,Homo Erectus) in Afro-Eurasia and then, through basic exploration, to Australasia and the Americas. The oldest civilisations followed either little to no religion at all or basic pagan religions that varied from area to area. None of these belief systems were what we today would define as an organised religion. The oldest religion known to man developed around around 3000 BCE, and over the course of a millennia became the organised religion we know today as Hinduism, most prominent in a large area of southern Asia.

The Turning Point
In around 2000 BCE, Abraham was born, and the tales around his life promised that a group of chosen people would own a promised land. Unlike Hinduism and practically all other neighboring faiths, this religion believed in a single god, Yahweh. The tales of his life, and the lives of his tribe and his God, are written by many different authors in the Torah, Koran and the Old Testament in the Bible. However, in this time line, a young Abraham died in his home town of Ur in Mesopotamia. The history of the world changed forever.

There would have little effect on the development of the world for a good part of the next thousand years, but an area-wide famine would cripple the ancient Egyptians in 1600 BCE for the course of several decades. But that resilient nation survived to face the invasions of later empires to come.

With the absence of the Hebrews and their nation, pagan religions dominated the Fertile Crescent. Tiny tribal groups would vie for the possession of the land on both sides of the Jordan river, but were no match for the invading Assyrian, and later Babylonian, forces that would overrun the land down to the inhospitable Sinai desert. After that, the Persian empire would overwhelm the Babylonians, bringing their organized religion that had many similarities to the ancient roots of Hinduism. This religion, though, was of a more aggressive nature and would prove popular among the masses.

Effects on the Roman Empire
With no Jewish state having arisen, the people of Palestine gave little resistance to the Roman invasion, most embracing the traditions of their invaders. Fast-forward several hundred years, and Jesus Christ never exists. There is no rise of the Christian faith, and the balance of the Empire doesn't have to deal with a religion that would deny the totalitarian claims of the Ceasars.

The question of whether the empire would have benefited from the centralisation of its religion by Constantine in the long run is a controversial one. Some claim that Christianity caused enough ill faith amongst the pagan peoples in the empire that it shortened the Western Empire by several hundred years. Others say that the centralisation meant a smaller gap between people and state, and so it lengthened the Empire's run, preventing it from fracturing as it had done during Constantine's life. I agree with the latter, and for the purposes of this study I will assume that the many variations of religion within the state fractured the empire years before its real counterpart. What we are left with is several large ex-provinces that share common concepts along the lines of the same religion, which I shall now name Romanism. A lot of these different groupings are concepts that the Romans had adapted from those regions in the first place.

Modern Era
In the absense of the Abrahamic faiths, Romanism, Germanic Paganism, Zoroastrianism and many Mesoamerican faiths remain dominant in the spiritual aspect of modern society. Holidays such as Passover, Hanukkah, Christmas and Easter as we know them exist in different forms.