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Honestly, this is OTL. Grouping people by language still isn't enough to describe diversity in China. Culture, cuisine, lifestyle, beliefs etc. can be quite different from one part of China to another. It has never really operated under our Western concepts of nationstates, and technically even...

20% Rome, 40% China, 33% Egypt Old - Middle Kingdom. 5% Soviet, 2% Spain, and 100% reason to remember the name.

They don't know that the Inca do that yet. And they probably wouldn't for a while seeing as how rarely it's practiced.

(Right Click > Add to dictionary ;) ) Check out GeaCron and enter 1530 for the date. Should give you a pretty good idea of the borders. The Inca already mined iron ore IOTL; it's just that it was used for red dye rather than smelted into a metal. If they learn you make iron out of that, it...

>inb4 the Spanish discover the Mapuche >inb4 they see parallels with the Tlaxcala >inb4 they try to sweet-talk the Mapuche into fulfilling the same purpose >inb4 Spain slowly crumbles anyway as a result of Charles V's newfound cocaine addiction

Those are some pretty big borders for pre-metallurgy civilizations!

How does one 'buy off' the Spanish? If you give a mouse a cookie...

Given enough time, of course. Not really. They can develop and evolve naturally.

Is this the beginning of lukewarm relations with Spain? Or does Belalcázar still think he has a trick up his sleeve?

The Sons of Inti shall not perish.

Ha! I remember that. I'm not sure if 'semi-domesticated' is the right word to use, though some people do keep and manage chuckwalla colonies today (the similar Uromastyx from Africa are more popular in the pet trade). The Seri just transported them to various islands where they would establish...

So why weren't the Californians discovered earlier by the Spanish? They seem to have been chasing every rumor possible of great civilizations at the time. You'd think Coronado at least would have been sent there. Also, where is Shua'leama in the Central Valley? You mentioned Tenochtitlan, and I...

What would tortoises be doing on Antarctic islands? Or any reptile for that matter? Dying, probably... Aldabran tortoises enjoy 85 degree F weather year-round in their native Seychelles. Kerguelen isn't completely inhospitable, but it's no picnic compared to that. Few reptiles tolerate...

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Bum bum bum. Be careful about introducing horses to early or weakened agrarian societies, though; it's a good recipe to turn them into pastoralists like OTL. Which isn't a bad thing in many cases, but you have to be sure the main state has access to them or else they won't be able to defend...

It's going to be downgraded eventually as planets become more well defined. The mass of an object is very important in its definition, but not the mass alone. It needs to be massive enough to clear its orbit of any similar sized objects and dominate it.

User @yboxman, who is a cell biologist, made a nice post about diseases and immune systems in his Viking TL some time back. He could explain it better than I can. First off, I mentioned before that the Spaniards were protected from the brunt of the epidemic by their living conditions and...

Current politics. Doesn't belong here.

I don't know much about the biology of Muppets, but I'm skeptical if they produce offspring. Perhaps this is how Monsters come about, through these hybridizations. If so they might have traits of both Kermit and Miss Piggie. Maybe something with a frog-like base, yellow in color because of the...