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I've also been thinking about what you have all said. What if the expansion took longer and was less expansive? Say from 11200 BP to about 2500BP the population spread mainly by land from Cape of Good Hope to tip of Somalia but no further northwestwards than the edge of the Congo rainforest, but...

I'd be interested to hear more of what you are thinking.

I'm referring to a time period between 11200 and approximately 2500 years ago. If you look at one of my earlier posts you will have seen that I have read one complete book only on the history of Africa. I have many other books of useful reference. True I have no personal experience of today...

OK I guess I have passed over a number of aspects in order to 'get on with the AH scenario'. Taking Eden in the East there are many different peoples around the central Sunda Plain area. I have assumed there was an uneasy relationship between X and these. After the catastrophy there would be a...

I don't see a problem moving to the Cape of Good Hope over land. Once settled in the cape provinces ships could be built at the cape or west coast and sailed / rowed (galleys maybe or early galleons or something similar to Viking ships) could then travel along the African coast to the Med. I...

I think I've missed something in what you posted. It seemed to parallel my proposed AH. If there was a point to your post - no offense intended - I am afraid I didn't get it. :confused: Perhaps its the Asperger in me!

you haven't given us enough to understand why your POD is as 'out-there' as it is... Welcome to the board, btw. Thanks. This reply is also for DuQuense. You have hit upon a central concern I have about how much to devulge in the forum. I would like to be able to write a book and get it...

You need a much finer net to catch mosquitoes. I had realised this! :) It was the principle of making nets I was considering.

Is it niaeve of me to be thinking fishing net production? Production of woven material and nets is ancient. Could it be less of a production problem than you think?

Thanks! Some strange terms floating around. I'll guess these are specific to the forum??? I assumed that civ X suffered badly from the various floods (probably super tsunami would be better description) referred to in Eden in the East. The civ is essentially destroyed after the 2nd flood...

Thanks all for repying. Seeing your comments makes me realise I haven't given enough information about the PoD. Whilst I am deliberately being vague -referring to Country X - I have assumed a (relatively speaking) high level society, probably as advanced as the Greeks, which gets destroyed...

Nobody know anything about the effect of African diseases on farming and people?

Just found this thread. Many inventions were ideas way before their time. I suspect (not being an engineer) that a whole lot of other factors would have prevented a working internal combustion engine coming into being much earlier... eg - need the processes to convert oil into petroleum or...

Nuclear - see Jeru post 24. I planned Country X substitute for Italy for not only supplying bought arms but also donation of free arms.

Just found interesting references on the web relevant to the thread... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_neutrality see section on Cold War and secret US / Swedish co-operation. Could substitute Country X here and for help with Viggen. http://www.histdoc.net/history/nordic1938_en.html...

I'm jumpimg ahead in my thoughts here, to include Finland and Norway... I'll explain later, but in the meanwhile... Does anyone have maps of the alignment of the rest of the Nordlandsbanen to Kirkenes that the Germans eventually hoped to build? I know it goes as far as Bodo now. Also any...

Can you expand upon your comments? Any thoughts on the extent of the changes you think might occur would be welcome.

Can you clarify your statement please? What do you mean by 'lock'? Did you mean that the Viggen radar could lock-on to an SR-71? Even if it could, would the air-to-air weapons available for the Viggen be able to intercept the SR71?

Thats interesting! From what I have read the J39 has much hidden talent and great capabilities. I wonder how it would do against MiG29, Su37, F15, F22???? Don't suppose I shall even find out. PC Just realised most comments are in the quote. I have highlighted in bold.

For JERU I just thought some further explanation might be in order.... In my AH I would like to be able to envisage that Country X buys stakeholdings in SAAB and other Swedish companies in the 1920's and 1930's. Part of this would be associated with support for German companies since country...