Forum:Turkic Religion in Easternized World

So, in Easternized World, there are going to be many religious differences (with the POD being 755, that was bound to happen). For most of the world, the religious differences are fairly easy for me to create. However, one group of people who are still hard to classify are the Turkic peoples, both the Central Asian ones and the Khazars. I'll start with the Khazars, since their question will be different.

So, in real life, at least the monarchy and aristocracy of the Khazars had converted to Judaism by the eighth century, with most of the lower classes either being the traditional Tengriist, or, for the non-Khazars, Islam or Christianity. In real life, the Khazars were conquered by the eleventh century. However, in this timeline, the Chinese manage to conquere much of Asia and vassalize the Khazars. After briefly being part of a pan-Turkic nation Kipchak in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Khazars would briefly regain their independence until being taken by China again. The end result is that by the present day, the Khazars as an ethnic group still survive. However, after being conquered by the Buddhist Chinese, would they have been converted to Buddhism? Would Judaism have survived and became their dominant religion? Or would they still be mostly Tengriist? The Chinese discriminatory policies make Islam out of the question.

The history of the rest of the Turkic peoples of central Asia is similar; however, unlike in OTL, they were conquered by the Chinese before Islamification. In OTL, many of the central Asian Turks were converting to Manichaeism, so could that have lasted? Or would the Chinese have converted them all to Buddhism?

Does anyone have any ideas? LurkerLordB (Talk) 00:43, February 29, 2012 (UTC)