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I second the idea of a Great Lakes centered civilization. If agriculture and the potato makes it there early enough they could support a really large population.

Let's say trade networks are more developed between North and South America and llamas are traded into the Mesoamerican civilization complex, meaning both the Maya and Aztec get them. What's the earliest they can get llamas? How does this affect how the Spanish Conquest goes? Does a llama...

My point is that nothing would change in regards to the relationship between China and Japan. The Japanese were already under a tributary system that they at times ignored by China never seemed bothered enough to enforce.

If what China wanted was military subjugation of Japan or Korea, it could have outright conquered them centuries ago. They preferred a tributary system.

The difference between alternate history and actual history is that alternate history has to make sense. More improbable things have happened and the Chinese were probably the most arrogant civilization on the planet before the Century of Humiliations. I don't think it's that strange if China...

What about a situation with Japan discovering the New World and being the first nation to capitalize on it? Japan recognizes that East Asia is lost to China and so focuses on maximizing its effects on the Americas. China for their part is unimpressed with Japan's discovery and prefers to...

I don't think that really makes sense. If you start defining "white" so broadly that East Asians are considered white, then the word loses all its meaning besides "no black people", at which point just say it. I think a more sensible definition of "white" could be people with majority descent...

I'm starting to think you're a racist troll between this post and your talk about whites being inherently more attractive. Of course agriculture was widespread in SSA before outside colonization. There was savanna and forest agriculture with different crops being grown in different areas...

Also, I have to disagree with the idea that East Asians would be less aggressive than Europeans simply because there'd be more of them. Humans push and push until they encounter insurmountable limits. There's no reason to think that the Chinese wouldn't be as rapacious if they decided to...

Why would there be a desire for sharper features in an East Asian dominated world? The standard of beauty would be East Asians and while even in antiquity pale skin was considered a mark of high status, no such ancient praise exists for sharp features. The only reason why white facial features...

I'd think timber and coal would be strong reasons to colonize Europe. Europe used to have huge forests and if a tropical empire wanted timber but knew enough about the effects of deforestation on a tropical environment to avoid doing at home, they might look to Europe for trade. Tropical areas...

I've got a timeline going where due to Rome losing a war there's a much stronger Germanic migration through Europe and into the Atlas Mountains and they eventually become thought of as culturally part of Europe in the same way that Russia and Spain are.

Let's assume that Italian Napoleon has the same sort of attitude and mindset as French Napoleon and he finds himself general of Italy's armies. What would he conquer first? Territories across the Adriatic or the Mediterranean coast of Europe?

Not with jaguars, cougars, and wolves they aren't.

It's always bothered me that Italy doesn't control Corsica, it would look more aesthetic that way, kind of how the United States would look better if it controlled all of the peninsula Maine borders. Anyhow, what can plausibly happen so that Italy controls Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily up...

African cattle? They're adapted to tropical climates and can tolerate droughts.

Imo it makes too much sense to use males as your primary infantry unit, especially in less technological times. They're stronger, more durable, they don't give birth, and they're not the limiting factor when it comes to population growth. You lose 30% of your males in a particularly bad war...

Are the Amaloxian forces composed mostly of women? How does that impact their society's ability to recover from a particularly bad war or have enough kids to sustain a population in a period where child death rates would be very high? I really like this TL. I've never seen a pre-Indo European...

I'll look into that. Basically, this is where Ansongo being in Sub-Saharan Africa comes into play in my mind. Ansongo is still recovering from the afflictions of The Crocodile's War and the two wars with the Karoo and Bafer people have taken enough resources that it's not really feasible for...

Is Islam a vehicle for Arabization?