In 1219 the cultural and learning centre of Islam was Khwarezm, with the capital city of Bukhara having one of antiquity's great libraries, including the work of Islam's greatest scientist, Ibn Sina. It was at this time that the Sultan Muhammad decided to insult and attack a guy going by the name of Genghis Khan.
Khan turned out to not care much for the cultural and scientific advancement of Islam, and killed and razed pretty much the entire country. This is the modern equivalent of one day waking up and, "Crap, the internet is gone forever.". There were still a lot of enlightened people wandering about, but the first major blow to the entwining of religious and scientific beliefs.
Khwarezm is pretty much a wasteland to this day.
And Trump/Gibson would never win, but Gibson/Trump would be a force to be reckoned with.
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