Talk:Buddhist World

Really looking forward to this. Love to see how it turns out. Just a few ideas I had regarding this timeline.

Islam
I was wondering if Islam here would really have been influenced by Buddhism. Islam originated in the Arab penisula, if I remember correctly, and the first Muslims were Arabic nomads who, united under a common religion, rode north and conquered Persia and much of the Middle East and North Africa. Persia had a long-standing religion, known as Zoroastrianism. As it was firmly established in Persia, which was culturally and geographically closer to Arabia, wouldn't the first Muslims have felt Zoroastrianism more strongly than Buddhism? Just a thought.

Hlanus (talk) 03:16, April 5, 2013 (UTC)Hlanus

Future Christianity
Another thought I had was how would the Christians have developed as a religion? Would they have developed as the Jews did after their expulsion from Judea? Would they have been hounded and persecuted by the majority religions? Would they have held on to their faith for centuries, or would they have assimilated themselves into other faiths to survive?

Hlanus (talk) 03:16, April 5, 2013 (UTC)Hlanus