The Norman kings of Africa
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What Would Have Happened if This North African Kingdom Had Survived?
The odds were always against the norman kingdom surviving in north africa for longer than short period it did. But we also shouldn't assume that it was inevitable, and required a confluence of two sets of events including political instability in sicily. And if you hadn't had those, there is a chance it would have survived. I might not have ever got quite as far, being just a little bit further away from the core a parts of western christendom. Just as it's entirely conceivable that sicily could have remained moslem. That these are aci areas that are really quite close to each other. The face of authority becomes ever more chauvinistic in terms
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