Changing Cultures?

[CCR_of_the_Code]

While it certainly is a valid point in some areas, for instance the Crusader States who where a ham away from fallowing the laws of the Koran, by your definition or your idea the Caliphate would have been consumed by the stronger Syrian culture. Also, using that mechanic all of the Muslim states should convert to Christianity.

 

[Spruce]

off course not,

I was speaking about a dominant culture devoring a lesser dominant (dominant = how far will you get in the world when you speak that language, something like influence).

my definition of dominant culture here would be valid on arabic (or even a sub-moslim culture) and christianity...

so both are dominant...

when the fundamentals of that community teaching, religion, socialising are untouched the conversion will never work.

So the crusaders rushed over there, many of them founded christian states... but at the time the crusaders arrived I suppose the majority of the people was converted to muslim...

also the amount of crusader states was limited and perhaps only intended to defend the pilgrim routes...

in the end converting an even dominant culture by means of force (missionars can perhaps do the trick after some years) has little chance of succes...

oh and Fryslan is the country and not the language, mystake by me

 

[CCR_of_the_Code]

Not really. I do not think it should be a natural process. The Syrians had a good 4 thousand years of culture under thier belt, but they buckled under the weight of Arab taxes. That is why the culture was assimilated. A similar situation in Anatolia, only with more genocide and Jannisaries.