Alternative History
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Post-Black Death is what happen if Black Death (Bubonic Plague) actually did more damage to Europe (via kill 98%) and take a big minor hit in both Middle East (killing 30 to 35%) and North African (killing 5%) regions as well.

Point of Divergence

Results of the Post-Black Death world

Lot things got massively change with Plague did to the world.

Long Term Results

The original Europeans who did manage survive plague take very slow recovered until the 1760s with some manage fight back against plague and foreigners.

Europe

  • Kingdom of Sami already formed the former Scandian lands in the late 1500s and expanded through until they reach end part of the subregion.
  • Remaining Celtic nations so surprising survived are reformed like Kingdom of Ireland (reformed in 1590s), Kingdom of Scotland (reformed in 1620s) and Welsh Confederation (later Kingdom of Wales in 1710s)
  • Kingdom of Poland who remains to exist until the 1860s with Mongolian Empire annexed them. And was only in Eastern Europe who survived the plague.
  • Byzantine Empire thoroughly fights back the plague (and Pyrrhic succeed through) lose all their land except three provinces formerly for decades and cause three civil wars to survives, After all, that they colonized what remains of other south European nations and converted their tribes into their bare Empire back mostly to former glory until their first war against Emirate of Granada.

Middle East/Asia

Africa

Religious results

  • Christianity got mass hit with plague majority of Catholic and Orthodox populations.
    • Catholicism has now deduced to Independent Catholicism (words successor to original faith) as Papacy has disbanded in 1352 by plague slowly kill the whole Holy See, Just leaving was Catholic faith used be.
    • [Eastern] Orthodoxy did manage to survive and slowly converting near tribes in South European regions into faith thanks to Byzantine Empire manage to keep itself survive all this time.
    • Miaphysite Orthodoxy gets big comeback as newly formed the Kingdom of Coptica successfully secede from Abbasid Caliphate and plus thousands of Bedouins and Berbers are converted (either forced convert or not) to faith and even includes create their own denominations (Berber Orthodox Church and Bedouin Orthodox Chuch [of Askum and Alexandria]).
    • Nestorianism remains change mildly with Church of East get little benefit from plague switch converting some Assyrians and Levantines into faith for small whole until they moved into north west Europe and attempted to form a kingdom where they won't be persecuted.
  • Islam while got mostly unchanged except this time both Sunni and Shia get an equal population of believers on/off until Shia get dominated Islamic world since 1883. But however, in modern times they are losing members (in all sects) to other religions and irreligious beliefs ever since the late 1980s.
    • Sunni Islam was almost affected plague into their holy site (Jerusalem) thus cost warn thousands to not go until plague is clean out. But it causes major consequences of not unbanned cause some converted to Shia and even to (almost forced) Miaphysite Christianity as Copts successfully pulling off secede from Abbasid Caliphate.
  • New Religion emerges in what remains of Ireland with Pádraig (a Christopagan religion) in the early 1390s as several people in northern-west part of Ireland have if not all abandoned Christianity and want to revive Celtic faith with believing that St. Patrick as their Celtic deity or Celtic hero in Celtic mythology. For next hundred years, they successfully convert most the island's population into faith. And remain majority ever since until the 1960s.
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