Hindu-Buddhist Americas
- Thread starter tom
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WI large nos. of Indian (as in from the subcontinent), Chinese and other Asian immigrants colonise the modernday US at some early point in hist before OTL European discovery and settlement ?
USA/Canadian-type winters would force some changes in Hindu practice, e.g.:-
(1) Need every autumn to work out how many livestock they can feed till spring on the hay that they had, and kill and salt the rest away, including cattle. That is why in Germanic languages before Christianity came, November was called Blo_tmonath = "Sacrifice-month". Indian Hinduism never had to cope with USA/Canadian or European type winters. Ref the changes OTL that Buddhism had to make in attitude to meat in Tibet due to climate. Much of Tibet is around 2 miles above sea level and only fit for sheep and yak breeding.
(2) Move Holi and Diwali etc to summer.
(1) Need every autumn to work out how many livestock they can feed till spring on the hay that they had, and kill and salt the rest away, including cattle. That is why in Germanic languages before Christianity came, November was called Blo_tmonath = "Sacrifice-month". Indian Hinduism never had to cope with USA/Canadian or European type winters. Ref the changes OTL that Buddhism had to make in attitude to meat in Tibet due to climate. Much of Tibet is around 2 miles above sea level and only fit for sheep and yak breeding.
(2) Move Holi and Diwali etc to summer.
Max Sinister
Banned
What about this: China discovers America, builds colonies there, but they are in need for cheap labor forces (and don't want the average Chinese peasant to leave his rice fields, for he could like the idea of freedom), so they introduce slavery and import slaves from... India!