The PoD is the Age of Exploration happens more than a century earlier, early colonial attempts have more luck than OTL to help settle populations with more resistance to Old World disease, and the world has technological and economic growth at a similar pace to OTL to prevent earlier demographic transitions.
European settlers (along with surviving natives, slaves, and anyone else who winds up there) have more time to settle the land.
Certain areas, like the Rio De La Plata and Mississippi Basins, or the American West Coast, all had very small populations compared to what they were capable of.
Provided another two centuries of pre industrial fertility before the industrial revolution, what would the population of some of these places end up like? Could we have parts of the America’s with populations comparable to the Benelux, Eastern China, much of India, or Java?
European settlers (along with surviving natives, slaves, and anyone else who winds up there) have more time to settle the land.
Certain areas, like the Rio De La Plata and Mississippi Basins, or the American West Coast, all had very small populations compared to what they were capable of.
Provided another two centuries of pre industrial fertility before the industrial revolution, what would the population of some of these places end up like? Could we have parts of the America’s with populations comparable to the Benelux, Eastern China, much of India, or Java?