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Looked into rice and was pleasantly surprised. Zizania palustris makes an easy and highly nutritional crop grown in paddies; while I was looking at it for the Southeast culture, it turns out to thrive in colder climes - Minnesota and the Great Lakes especially - rather than warmer, so it makes a...

gender balance and sexual dimorphism. For a pride/harem to work well, males need to be significantly larger and stronger than females. This is true of lions. It does not appear to be true of smilodon. It also means that significantly fewer males survive to adulthood than females. This is true of...

I realize it's been done before, but what about the idea of rice-based agriculture, particularly along Megalopotamia (the Mississippi etc)? I'm pretty happy with that reconstruction of fauna ranges and biomes, actually. I'm wondering if anything can be done with dire wolves. Specifically...

Hawkyns displays remarkable economic prescience. Although his plan may not be very practical at the moment. Always nice to see more :)

Drew, you do not disappoint :D I don't recall the House having anything to do with the selection of a new Vice-President, so in fact Wallace's choice will sail through effortlessly. Starting to be a lot of names we don't know in the Senate. I look forward to getting to know some of them...

More interesting stuff. Thanks for continuing. That said, I don't have high hopes for probably-Ivan-V keeping it all. Especially if the oprichniki and nobility both see him as part of the problem.

I don't think the Andes make a good biological reservoir - in OTL they were the part of South America MOST successfully colonized by North American megafauna. The Amazon jungle apparently represented a far more impassable barrier. And yeah, I think there was some consenus for keeping terror...

Without Sulla, the Senate will stand firm against Marius - and he won't use force to bring them around. Without Marius' military reforms, Rome fails to hold Greece, southern Spain or North Africa. They become independent semidemocratic states with slight Roman flavoring. In time, Rome might...

The Adams' have stayed relatively active. Most of the others don't really have modern descendants. As mentioned, there are Kennedys and the like in their place today. So royal houses go.

Bad example, because pigs and cows require significantly different environments to live in, but your point is taken. I'm happy to have both populations of smilodon survive, since without S. populator we have no credible predators for macrauchenia. What about mammoths? Specifically, I was...

Alternatively - while it disappoints me nearly as much as it does the people who proposed them, we can drop cheetahs on the grounds that they represent the third apex predator, and there was some consensus that that would be a bit unrealistic. (Take glyptodonts bake and claim moderator privilege...

Taming cheetahs is indeed something you do when you don't have a workable dog population. While I don't think we'd specifically talked about it, I believe there was an assumption that our humans would have dogs. So yeah, a tame cheetah is sort of a macho stunt. The tiger's striped coat is an...