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Humans at first only used ostriches for their eggs, meat, skin, and feathers but as human populations increased, people seem to have begun selectively breeding them for either food production or draft purposes in the late BCEs. The calvary or "terror bird" ostrich breed first made its...

I dunno, it's pretty hard to imagine wars from before antiquity to early modern times without the ubiquitous terror bird cavalry. Maybe horses or zebras? Horses are pretty damn tame for a prey species and zebras...can be taught to not hate people.

The Imjin Invasions were two invasion attempts launched by the Japanese to conquer Joeson Korea and Ming China in 1592 and 1596. The Japanese got no further than parts of the Korean peninsula before they were stymied by combined Chinese and Korean forces and forced to retreat. My question is...

To my knowledge, everyone south of the equator in Africa was Khoisan-like with the Congo jungles being populated by pygmies. Afro-Asiatic speakers never got south of the Horn except a bit in the Great Lakes region.

I am still working on this timeline and hopefully will be done before August 2019. I had a writer's block and battled with depression for a bit, but I've got new inspiration to continue this story.

Seconded. Truly inventive and the framing device of a college lecture is great.

That's a damn shame. I bet if they spiced the meat up nice and fried the dodos, they would've been delicious. Think of the culinary possibilities. Make sure they eat nothing but fruit so they get fat and tasty, marinate them in wine or beer, and then slow roast them. Mmm, I want dodo meat...

Can you make an index for all the chapters so it's easy to find all the chapters and follow the story.

In terms of the Big 3 (Maya, Aztec, Inca), only the Mayans are around in a recognizable form and the other civs will emerge later. New World crops, should they ever reach Africa, would be a massive boon, even larger than OTL because there presumably wouldn't be a massive slave trade draining...

"You'll have a taco truck on every street corner!"

They're messed up, but I'm not too fussed after seeing more than a few threads about "how to make the Confederacy win" or "how to get a whiter world (btw totally not racist though I believe Europeans are inherently suprerior)???"

Well, I'm saying that the capital of the Sahelian state is located in the Inner Niger Delta. The canal itself would branch off from the western downward end of the Niger and go from there to the Bafing river which is connected to the Senegal river. The point of a potential Senegal-Niger...

What would be the economic and social and political effects of a successful construction of a canal that linked the Niger and Senegal rivers?

Well, as IOTL for the Mali empire, a mansa or "high king" will be ruling the empire from a seat based in the Niger inland delta. Under the mansa are the province-masters that control the individual provinces that compose the empire, and there are griots to help govern the provinces as well that...

In my TL, West Africa is developing several centuries sooner than it did IOTL due to Carthage winning the 2nd Punic War and spurring a large scale trans-Saharan trade to pay off its wartime debts. I have a sahelian state that spans the Senegal and Niger rivers and I was wondering if it's...

Hmmm, I was thinking that the POD could be which capital the Mongols decide to let collect tribute from the other Russian city-states. So instead of Muscovy, Kiev gets the honor and can skim off the top. The theory on why Russian government is so brutal says that Moscow is not on fertile land...

How can Ukraine become stronger than Russia, but still remain distinctively Ukrainian without becoming Westernized? For example, they still follow Eastern Orthodox and the Cryllic script. The POD can be set back no longer than the Mongol domination of Eastern Europe.

I guess I'm confused about the whole Great Lakes issue. What are the implications of them being low-lying and why is that bad for agriculture? There's massive amounts of freshwater, trading and fishing options, decent rainfall, and at a latitude where crops can be grown. And it's flat terrain...

On that thought, look at how Africans incorporated cattle into their social systems. There were divisions in ethnicity in part based on whether a people focused solely on raising cows or whether they planted crops. Cattle stimulated much larger populations due to giving people another source...

Why on Earth did they try to do that? Those things are adorable and perfectly adapted to the mountainous terrain.