Recent content by Flashman

Don't Chile and Patagonia already have guanacos? While I don't they were domesticated in Patagonia, it seems like if pigs reached Patagonia they would reach it as feral animals. So I don't see why it would kick-start domestication, seems like it would just be a new wild protein source.

and what's that one setting that makes it's color go weird instead of being solid black?

Yes, I sae every one I come across.

Like that you're doing this. Historic coastlines should be paid more attention to. Would be neat if you would start doing this in WorldA format, though obviously that's a tremendous pain.

Montreal and Ile d'Orleans = Kaliningrad?

Surely that's the last of the Comancheria

The main story is: Atlanteans use their occupation of their cousins in Meropis, former lords of the continent of Mocosa, to extend the grip of their markets. A revolt by slaves and slave-mercenaries in the collapsing League of 7 Cities, following an ideology marked by a belief in the inevitable...

I'd guess that the main impediment was that they're largely solitary, not especially social animals. That's bad enough for the prospects of domesticating an herbivore, but would make things very difficult indeed for a large dangerous omnivore. The two large dangerous omnivores we've...

Tame or domesticated, I'm not sure I like the idea of ever of getting down to milk a bear... or any other carnivore for that matter. I assume you're already familiar, but I'd recommend reading over DValdron's "Bear Cavalry" to see the prospects of bear domestication.

Obviously I agree with Trey's overall point; there is nothing in extant American Indian folklore that seems to suggest empirical knowledge of some extraordinary ape creature. There's just a bunch of different stories about all sorts of human or humanoid creatures as we find in literally every...

A concept I've been thinking about recently: Natives across the south east are well known to have produced and exported the yaupon holly for the creation of the black drink, a ceremonial caffeinated beverage. It was widely consumed, from Cahokia in the north to Mesoamerica in the south. Its uses...

I'm sympathetic to the view that western aid and economic entanglements, while perhaps abating suffering in the short term, may be holding these countries back from developing and ultimately doing more harm than good. However - in the short term there would be a tremendous amount of upheaval...

How would increased domestication have no effect on "progress"?

I've enjoyed all of these designs to varying degrees, all are better than 90% of the Australia re-designs I've seen. But I would just note, for this last flag - I much prefer the Commonwealth Star to be in the upper-left hand corner, set in the blue band. The white on blue is better, and having...