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Okay, thanks for clarifiying.

Okay, so they'd probably attempt to retake their lost territory around the time of the First Crusade?

Hmm, it said on Wiki that they found Caesarea abandoned. Oh well.

So Germany is just a mis-match of kingdoms unable to unify at all?

But could they be in the area of the OTL Papal States, or northern Italy? And would they be able to assert more authority later in history? Or does this idea kinda doom Italy?

I thought the Arabs crossed and conquered Delhi, spreading Islam to northern India and cementing the foundations for the Delhi Sultanate. Never mind.

If India cannot unify, could there at least be larger kingdoms to contend with?

This is difficult. I'd love a world without the HRE, without the expense of Italy and Germany. India would be nice to see united, but is probably improbable. Too large an area with too many different self-identifiyng cultures and "ethnicities".

It's also difficult to find potential people that would qualify to lead a movement to change the direction of Catholicism at this time period. I searched categories on Wiki, but all clergy of the period save Bogomil seemed very conservative. Would it be possible to make up a person who is influenced by the teachings of Paulicianism, Marcionism, and Bogomilism? Or, if Jeremiah and Bogomil are two different people, could Bogomil send Jeremiah out to the West with a good base to establish holds in the West?