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What about the Muslim civilizational space being split between Sunnis and Shi'ites? That would also qualify for this, right?

Obviously the newcomers have to be fairly assimilable. Else, as you said, things get worse, not better. The West can greatly augment its population with open borders but that would destroy the West rather than benefit it. FWIW, I don't think that all immigration is good. Rather, I think that...

lol. A bigger Western bloc is a better Western bloc. There are two things that I dislike about the GOP the most: It being anti-immigration and it being anti-Ukraine.

@Skallagrim Would you view the Orthodox-Catholic and Catholic-Protestant splits as well as the more temporary Western Schism as being examples of the Christian civilizational space being split? As you said, it's gradually being undone right now for all intents and purposes, but it still lasted...

What do you think, @raharris1973 @stevep @Zyobot @Skallagrim @History Learner @sillygoose?

Which additional realistic cases of a civilizational space being split into two parts can you think of? In real life, we had: -The division of the territories of Roman Christendom from 565 AD into those territories that became Muslim and those that remained Christian in 750 -The collapse of the...