AH Challenge: The World Turned on its Head

[Veneer]

Attempt to establish an AH scenario involving at least two of the following.

Installment I:

1. Nenets Okavango Delta
2. Ainu Finland
3. Melanesian Japan
4. Andamanese Seychelles
4. Manchu Cyprus

[Fabilius]

Without ASB help?

Ainu probably came from Siberia. (Apparently modern historians consider them related to Inuits).

You need an early POD with different migration pattern.

Melanesian Japan: Japan more seafaring?

The rest...hmm...

Well like I said an early POD with different movements of people, but all the butterflies would probably change the names, the national identity and languages of the people.

[David S Poepoe]

Originally Posted by Fabilius

Melanesian Japan: Japan more seafaring?

Maybe they are just darker complexion.

[sunsurf]

Melanesian Japan--I was thinking the other way around. Mongols dominate Japan, and their descendants explore the Pacific. At some point there are massive wars/plagues in Japan, which is depopulated, and the Melanesians, whose culture is radically transformed by contact with the Mongol-Japanese explorers, begin expanding their explorations and eventually colonize elsewhere and settle Japan.
Maybe they settle Okinawa/Ryukyu and expand from there...
I suppose the Japanese settling the Melanesian Islands is more likely.

Andamanese Seychelles--Explorers from India visit and settle in the Andaman Islands, affect the society there, and the natives use the shipbuilding knowledge from India to begin exploring nearby islands, and eventually land in the Seychelles.

Or Arabs visit the Andamanese take some as slaves to the Seychelles...

Or one Andamanese person leaves for India, studies hard and goes to some major university, becomes a businessman, buys up lots of land in the Seychelles, makes it a resort, encourages his Andamanese relatives to come visit...

Nenets Okavango Delta

The Nenets are an indiginous people of N. Russia. Wikipedia says there's 41,302 of them, as of 2002.

Okavango is the largest inland Delta in the world, in Botswana, covering part of the Kalahari Desert.

41,302 times a hundred thousand is 4.1302 billion dollars. So, in the period 1980-present, 41 multibillionaires in the world decide it would be an interesting experiment in social engineering to see what would happen if they each contribute one hundred million dollars for every Nenets person to emigrate to Botswana. Documentary filmmakers will document the process and show what happens to the Nenets and the native Botswanans.

The money is used in part for improving the lives of the Botswanans, creating jobs, new habitats, experimental solar power projects, testing new technologies, etc.

[HelloLegend]

The Ainu were a caucasoid race, not a mongloid race.