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The crops that changed the world were things like potatoes (far away in the Andes), sweet potatoes (a tropical/semi-tropical crop). and corn- the only major crop, and still having to struggle against wheat and barley. Mainstream European powers wouldn't get to Central/South America until the...

Little Rock, Arkansas would still be named La Petite Roche, which means... Little Rock.

You might be able to make the Oregon Territory British, bur I imagine Manifest Destiny would push America into annexing California at least,, especially if your POD is after the Mexican War.

Hadn't thought about that; was more concerned with direct European contact and influence. I think this would be okay.

Yeah, but I'm more wondering how much Norse influence would spread, rather than Norse themselves. I can see it spreading in concentric circles, with leaps here and there for reasons both ecological and historical (short for "who knows?").

I'd lose the 'folk' and just go with 'Chinese' religion. There are folk aspects to it- the 'Dao Jiao', (religion), as it's called in Chinese, which basically has little to do with 'Dao Jia' (the philosophy that we call Taoism). OTOH, Chinese who follow it tend to take various strands of that...

Yeah, it happened in the 19th C with Romanticism, but before that? C.S, Lewis pointed out how thoroughly Classicism dominated medieval literature- legends of Greece and Rome were common fare when the very existence of Woden and Thor were largely buried. Amusing letter- as far as Nazis can be...

If a Vinland settlement was successfully established, how long would it take for various cultural elements to disperse? a) domestication of animals- pigs cows , chickens. sheep, goats, horses. b) cereal farming- barley, wheat c) ironworking/metalworking d) literacy e) shipbuilding f)...

One thing-Russians were interested in sea otters, not seals

Not very. Most Greek writing, including large sections of Plato and Aristotle and the Illiad and Odyssey, were unknown, and didn't become widespread until the Late Middle Ages, through Byzantine and Muslim sources (including Jewish, of course).

Speaking of where the Peace River country belongs, when I worked seismic oil exploration in western Canada, I would proudly tell people I was from Vancouver- except in the Peace, where I would always reply that I was born in Edmonton.

Already got it in my New Albiom TL. Bwah-ha-ha-ha!

Except during that perio Except Britain and Germany had both higher GDP and population growth than France in that same period.

Yeah, there are some posters so obsessed with white dominion they imagine an ATL where white people from Europe actually dominate the world in the 19th and 20th C.

Standard MGTOW/incel whining.

France and the Rhine, of course.

The Arabs seem to have done a pretty good job of using both.

Good idea- somebody should write a book about it :)

Two problems: 1) Banning of French spoken in public would be outside of norms. Also, why would France agree to it?- and their agreement would be necessary. 2)Settlers would be difficult to get from Spain, as Spanish nobles were fighting to hold onto the peasants they had; other parts of the...

The blog I cited strongly agrees with you.