Byzantine Constantinople in 1914

have the ecumenical patriarchs fall in line rather than splitting from the rest of christendom and making themselves a target for retarded crusaders and unlikely to receive help against the roach hordes

Youd have to change too much history.

For one thing the military system meant soldiers were loyal to their generals and not to the state. For another thing, the entire tax collection system is a sham. And third, the political system they had meant the guys who got to be part of the political elite had to be conniving or a brute rather than good at their jobs.

And these are fixable things, how to deal with the plagues or the gold and silver being devalued? The barbarian invasions will come no matter what an emperor did.

>>2299342
If you are generous Osman Empire/Turkey is some kind of bastard child of Roman/Byzantine Empire with Islam. So it "kind of" dragged itself into modern era.

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>>2299432
Get out!

The fourth crusade although centuries before it's fall destroyed and the eastern empire. It was already dead by the time the Turks 'defeated' it.

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*blocks your path*

>>2299432
>If you are generous Osman Empire/Turkey is some kind of bastard child of Roman/Byzantine Empire with Islam
That's like saying the Kingdom of Spain is a bastard child of the Aztec Empire with Christianity. It doesn't make any sense. Apart from Mehmed II himself no Ottoman leaders never claimed to have any sort of Roman legacy.