Alternate Destinies (Sargon's Dream)

As a result of Akkad's expansion throughout the western hemisphere, many important people in the OTL have had much different destinies.

Christopher Colombus
Christopher Colombus, hoping to sail to the Indies, sought the help of the Portuguese to fund his journey. The first try, they refused. Columbus, dissatisfied, went to Spain to seek funding. However, his time of arrival was ill, as Akkad had invaded from the Gibraltar Strait in order to start the planned conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. During one of the battles in the south, Columbus, on his way to Madrid, was forced to scavenge after his caravan was destroyed. According to his account, Columbus essentially looted a heavily damaged bank, taking hundreds of thousands of Spanish reals with him. Escaping with his life, Columbus contracted a second caravan with the money, and rode to Portugal once again to convice the king to aid his project. With his wealth, Columbus convinced the Portuguese crown to give Columbus the ships he needed. Columbus sailed to what he thought was the Indies, but was actually the Bahamas, but nevertheless claimed it for Portugal. As a result of his actions, the Portuguese colonized the Americas in the place of OTL Spain.

Jesus
Jesus did not survive that far past infancy. During the Purges of Judea (part of the short Akkad-Roman War), the entire population of Nazareth was exterminated, seeing it as a threat to the Akkadian occupation of the region. Jesus is believed to have been one of the many infants listed as "executed" on the official casualty reports of the war.

Muhammad
Muhammad, having claimed to speak to the one true god, was considered a break from the norm in Akkad. The monotheistic religion of Sumerian was very widespread in the Arabian desert, so Muhammad had very few outlets to spread his teachings. However, all who listened were astonished at his level of recitation. On the down side, many of the scholars who Muhammad spoke to scoffed at him, as he was an illiterate. Islam became a miniority religion, focused around Makkah Province.

GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpeg Newton
Born in England, Isaac Newton was safe from the continued Akkadian wars in Europe. As a child and throughout his teenage years, Isaac Newton was fascinated with Akkad, and how its military might hung mainland Europe in the balance. As a result, Isaac Newton became an avid historian, mostly focusing on Akkad and its early history. Because of his sympathy with the Akkadian regime, Newton was granted special access inside the country to continue his scholary work. As a result of his historian occupation, the laws of motion and other Newton discoveries were delayed, most of which were discovered by different scientists at different times in the coming decades.