Fun read - I think, unless there is something other to explain the
Aw come on. Over a thousand views. You'd think one person was registered and had something to say.
I wonder what the mainland Europe looks like in 1600ish when the timeline ends. You get the feeling that after the Khanate implodes, some incredibly powerful Empire rises mainly out of France. They're implied to be this huge Imperium that probably covers a lot of Germany too. Interesting and elusive.
Fun read, and well written - I think, unless there is something other to explain the lack of human population in the Western Hemisphere before European contact other than climate, I just can't see it.
If the climatic conditions that created the Beringia land bridge do not arise, the impact of global warm temperatures would be (presumably)
huge, including in the Eastern Hemisphere
; whether anything resembling human history as we know would result is literally astronomical.
Having the North American megafauna survive is the least of it, in some ways...if the world remains warm enough to prevent the land bridge, there may not be any Neolithic Revolution...there may not be any Neolithic.
I think that's the foundation for the ASB comments; not that this "world" would require alien space bats, but simply it is much more likely a world without the conditions that brought Beringia would almost
be alien space bats.
Not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine, as someone a lot sharper than myself once put it...
Best,
Can you give a reason at least?
