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  1. Continents?

    My understanding is that it varies a lot depending upon culture; I've heard as many as 7 and as few as 4.

  2. Continents?

    Oh god, so ill-defined. Not going be geologically, because I'd look at it very differently then. North America - Mainland and minor outlying islands of the US, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and Greenland. Normally, I wouldn't consider Central America or the Caribbean part of either South or North...

  3. Questions about continents

    To be fair, even the modern definition of a continent isn't consistent across just European/European-descended cultures alone. Whether the Americas are one continent or two; whether Antarctica counts; where the boundaries of Europe and Asia are - all of these vary pretty widely among just those...

  4. what if muslims won the battle of tours?

    My understanding was that the Umayyad's didn't even consider Tours to be that significant of an event or that relevant to their plans.

  5. Linguistic Map Thread

    I was referring more to that I didn't see French hatched over those regions, although I might just be looking in the wrong place because of the projection

  6. Linguistic Map Thread

    I think that French should be further south over northern New England - I know there are at least places in upper NH and Maine where the Francophone population reaches 65-70%

  7. AHC: French as a major language in the US

    It may be cheating a bit, but if you count creoles, then French is spoken by about 7% of the US today (4-5% of the population speaking French proper), so I think you might be able to do it by making Canada somehow more Francophone, and somehow encouraging more population along the borders than...

  8. AHC/WI: sun deities considered evil

    Nobody said they have to - necessary vitamins and nutrients are completely possible to get exclusively or almost exclusively from oceanic sources, and even neglecting that many of those tasks are quite possible to do at night, a few tasks during the day for practicality is no different than how...

  9. AHC/WI: sun deities considered evil

    I've thought about it before, and if you could find a non-agricultural culture that was predominantly using a nocturnal food source, I could see it switching - some sort of ocean-going culture struck me as most likely, as the sun would cause glare on the water, while the night sky is a...

  10. AHC/WI: sun deities considered evil

    Minus the "ancient" part, OTL - the Chimu people lived in desert regions, and inverted moon/sun imagery

  11. Cool and Interesting Alternate Migrations

    Polynesians to Australia or the Americas Ainu across the Bering Strait Pre-Sinicised/*Chinese minority populations out of OTL China Any sort of Sub-Saharan population northwards into Europe, although I suppose there's not much reason for that

  12. WI: Muslim West Christian East

    Assuming that Islam is still more or less contiguous to the Arabian peninsula, or at least the Red Sea, could this butterfly - or at least substantually delay and weaken - the age of exploration and colonisation, since there would now be both Christian and Islamic routes into at least the Indian...

  13. AHC: No more than 5 Spanish Latin America States

    -Mexico retains the FRCA -Gran-Colombia remains unified -Peru-Bolivian Confederation remains intact -Large La Plata/Argentina* style nation, including Uruguay and Paraguay -Chile That's the entire mainland. Now, if you're OK with a really really unstable situation, you could have Bolivar's...

  14. AHC: Domesticated Thylacine

    Perhaps it'd be possible to have the New Guinean population last into more contemporary times, and go from there? It certainly would at least give a larger population base to go with, and finding a way to butterfly their extinction in New Guinea might also save them on the Australian mainland -...

  15. Rise of the Kingdom Of Hawaii

    Any dates and names? ATM, it's hard to know what's going on in relation to OTL, since the only specific that's been given is Hawai'i.

  16. AHC: Most Dystopic Modern Great Power Possible

    Do 1 and 3 have to be with their own people, or do war prisoners count? If they do, I can see a WWII-like-era a US pull off everything but 2 and 12 provided enough butterflies.

  17. AHC: Keep Pre-Columbian American cities going.

    Zócalo, along with much of the layout of the cities themselves, have been preserved. I'm not familiar enough to point out specific buildings, although I'm sure there are some, but the actual infrastructure of the cities has lasted much much longer. Also, temples weren't the only buildings in...

  18. AHC: Keep Pre-Columbian American cities going.

    This is extremely OTL. Even in the modern US, many older cities are built on the sites of earlier pre-Columbian settlements (although, unlike in Mexico and southwards, the ones in the US usually occurred with the original settlement being entirely wiped out first).

  19. DBWI: names of places after American victory in Mexican-American War

    Actually, I was kind of aiming for the US gets the Louisiana Purchase as OTL, and working with numbers from there. IOTL, the Mexican Cession was larger than the Louisiana Purchase, assuming you count the land that Texas claimed but didn't necessarily control

  20. DBWI: names of places after American victory in Mexican-American War

    OOC: Was kind of trying to shoot for "all the land from Louisiana to California," rather than just California - IE, roughly OTL expansion
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