Challenge: The High Kings of North America

[MerryPrankster]

Challenge: With any POD, make it so that contact between North America and western Europe leads to the establishment of a conglomerated Celtic-Amerind culture in North America, complete with something resembling the High King system among the Indian tribes.

Bonus points if the Celts bring over the Celtic rite of Christianity with them. According to something I read, modern researchers have built craft in the style of the legendary St. Brendan (skins sealed with pitch) and crossed the Atlantic successfully from Ireland to North America.

Here's a link on the re-enactment of St. Brendan, complete with a guy who claimed Christian missionaries visited North America in the 6th Century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Col...ceanic_contact

[cow defender]

i had a dream of this once, so i'd like to see it too.

heh, in my vision a disgruntled celt leaves west and finds the natives on the tribes and create a crazy religion and explode out of the prarie mongol style.

imagine the cultural implications of this, i wonder what the celtamericans would think of two-spirits. heh.

[NapoleonXIV]

One question I would like to see the timelines on this subject address is the problem of diseases. It is common knowledge that European diseases which the Amerinds had no resistance too were the overwhemingly dominant cultural factor in the first 200 years of European migration. They continued to have profound effects even into the 19thc and to the present day, yet they are very seldom even mentioned in these timelines. Surely, the Europeans did not acquire all those diseases and the resistance to them in the years between 600 and 1500 CE.