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I would suspect that mariners from North Africa probably find East Asia intentionally before mariners from East Asia intentionally find North Africa and make a round trip. Although it might be mariners from Europe who map out the route between East Asia and Northern and Western Africa for the...

If the Muslims retain the Levant the whole time or most of the time (which I see as more likely than victorious Neo-Crusader states), Italian or Iberian merchants may find Hawaii and set it up as a base of operations for trade to India and the Far East outside of the normal Muslim sailing range...

Getting out of the post-Ankara mess, as shown. Maybe not in sniffing distance of Syria, yet, but that's a short term problem. I think it pretty much is. By 1415 the Ottomans seem to have the city well surrounded and have a robust domain in western Turkey and the southern Balkans...

At the leadership and military levels this wasn't a problem for the Mamluks, because they were imported slave-soldiers, and so definitionally, 'new blood'. Theoretically it could be a drag on surrounding society, or at least its cohesiveness beyond a clannish level. And as I hinted above, the...

Your reference to Carthage and a Carthage-Egypt war makes me think your comment belongs in my other, similar thread on this premise that takes places over 100 years BC, and not after 1400 AD

Egypt will have had undisturbed generations to build itself up into a Nile Valley based superpower with Africa as its oyster in the meantime.

An ASB generated "event" on the night of August 15th, 1415, spatially displaces Africa and places it in the middle of the Pacific, swapping it with most of Polynesia (save New Zealand and Easter Island) and some of Melanesia, as shown in this map. The ASB puts a climate preservation bubble over...