DBWI: what if the Cro-Magnons had all died out?

[nickjbor]

What would the world be like today if all the Neanderthals died out 10,000 years ago!

edit note - I got them mixed up!

[Petike]

What would the world be like today if all the Cro-Magnons died out 10,000 years ago!

Nice idea, but I don't fully understand. Is this an alternate Earth inhabited only by Neandertals, or by both Neandertals and Cromagnons ?

[ac220v]

Well, how it's a blind WI, if Cro-Magnons didn't die out in OTL?

[nickjbor]

Nice idea, but I don't fully understand. Is this an alternate Earth inhabited only by Neandertals, or by both Neandertals and Cromagnons ?

I think the assumption is both are around.

[Petike]

I think the assumption is both are around.

Ungh, right you are, tall thin man... :D

[Snake Featherston]

This world would be far more peaceful if those thin-haired bastards from Africa had died! Earth for Jagged-Landers (OOC: Neanderthal term for Europe) only! Revere our ancestors, expel these human assholes from our shores.

(;))

[Jomazi]

OOC: WE are the cro-magnons. Genetic studies has shown them to be modern Europeans. Neanderthals OTOH...

[nickjbor]

OOC: WE are the cro-magnons. Genetic studies has shown them to be modern Europeans. Neanderthals OTOH...

Do'H. I got them mixed up. I'll edit the first post! sorry

[ac220v]

Why, that's easy. There would be either H. floresiensis (or some other species, maybe even speciation of Cro-Magnons themselves) or no civilization at all with us still being flintknapping savages.

Only free competition between two or more sentient species can result in true civilization, it's obvious, and nicely solves the FerHmi's Paradox, - on all other planets only one sentient species evolved.

[NomadicSky]

We are the Cro-Magnons, they were the ancestors of modern Europeans (and people of European decent elsewhere).

[VulcanTrekkie45]

Well, I for one would probably not exist. I'm a hybrid. And one species=no hybrids.:(

[Snake Featherston]

Bah!

You fellas can claim all you like that those ThinBrow bones were your ancestors. Jagged Land was ours, the Bear People (OOC: Neanderthals) have always lived in Jagged Land, and so we always will. Once we expanded into the Far Land (OOC:American Continent) and pushed the Old Ones (OOC:Erectus) out of the lands we know called the Jade Kingdom, you were fucked.

Jagged Land is our homeland. Unfortunately, in the far south of Jagged Land, diseases keep the regions of Half-Leg (Italy) from being settled as well as they might. Bear People light-bringers (scientists) state it is due to our having inhabited Europe for so long that we evolved diseases that made parts of it uninhabitable. They point to similar situations in South-Land (Africa) that you ThinBrows have, where diseases restrict your getting as far as you did.

Besides, we all know that Bear People culture is true culture, no civilized society would ever have been formed without us.

[nickjbor]

I tell you what would have happened, it would have put an end to all this racism once and for all! a world without neanderthals would be utterly free of all racism! (then again the same could be said in reverse!)

[Snake Featherston]

I tell you what would have happened, it would have put an end to all this racism once and for all! a world without neanderthals would be utterly free of all racism! (then again the same could be said in reverse!)

You're just jealous that we took more of the world than you did. FYI, Thinbrow, most racism today is inter-Bear People. We could give two shits about the plague-ridden termite-infested societies you have in Southland. 150,000 years of living there and all you've managed to create are societies that we decimated in the Conquest (*Colonization).

It may have been bad for you Thinbrows, but then, you were more willing to fight rival groups of yourselves than to unite against us. That was not so much true for us, or else we would have lost.