Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "What if the Catholic Church had taken over the West?" video.

  1. Yes they did. Thdy are literally the only reason Chile and Argentina didn't genocide the Ameridians of Patagonia and Aragunia.
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  2. Yes
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  3. I think that the Catholic Church would still slow innovation, not because of its ideology but by the nature of large bureaucratic organizations in order to maintain power. Imperial Rome did similarly at different times. However, the Peripheral states like Poland, Russia and Britain could still survive and I would suspect colonization would be a very slow affair, slow enough that the Americas would mostly survive. However, with much reduced internal wars and the church holding great influence I think what we would see is a sequence of large crusades against the Turks, Mongols and into North Africa. Maybe the Ilkhans conquer Egypt with Church help.
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