Submission Timeline Wiki

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Submission is a multipart shared-world alternate history created by the late Anthony Mayer in 2001 in which the Arabs and the Norse trade destinies. Like our world's Norse, the Arabs start out launching raids on the older civilizations around them and end by establishing a series of energetic states that revitalize the older civilizations. Like our world's Arabs, the Norse create a monotheistic religion called Submission that launches them on a centuries-long career of conquest and imperialism.

The Point of Divergence (POD) from our history is the year 633 CE, when Muhammad's successor Abu Bakr faced rebellion from the Arab tribes who had submitted to the Prophet's rule and adopted Islam. In our timeline, Abu Bakr put down the rebellion and Arabia remained united under Islam. In the Submission Timeline, Abu Bakr is defeated, Islam is confined to the Hejaz, and the rest of Arabia becomes a hodgepodge of competing religions.

A secondary Point of Divergence occurs in 772 CE when a Norse trader-merchant experiences a revelation while lost at sea and creates a new monotheistic religion that bears a remarkable resemblance to Islam. (Perhaps the failure of the Arabs to create a religious empire caused God to try again in Scandinavia.)

The Submission Timeline Wiki includes the original Submission posts from the soc.history.what-if Usenet newsgroup along with a series of articles on various topics from the Submission Timeline. The articles will include information from the Submission Timeline, and also, where appropriate, information from our timeline (OTL) in italics.

The posts and articles on the Submission Timeline Wiki use the standard dating system from the Submission Timeline, the Standard Era (originally known as the Submission Era). The Standard Era numbers years from the foundation of Submission by Ragnar the Prophet in the year 722 of the Christian Era, known as the Year Zero of the Standard Era. Thus, the death of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in 565 CE is known in the Submission Timeline as 207 BSE (before Standard Era), while the death of Ragnar the Prophet in 798 CE is known as SE 26.

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