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Indeed. If you are quick of the mark and get up a quarantine system you can blunt the diseases impact quite a bit due to the Inca territory's geography. That will be vital. I wouldn't. I do work with environmental workplace hazards, and you'd be amazed at the number of bakers who are unaware...

In Europe, smallpox did not discriminate. It killed a greater percentage of children, but also killed a considerable percentage of adults. There was, however, a population interaction where inhabitants of large cities would be infected as children and die or become immune, but visitors from the...

There are a couple of issues with that. First off, the OTL Aztec/Mexica and Andean region will have had a genetic leg up from European DNA. Although that will only be a minor factor, under severe selective pressure it will speed up recovery. Second, the Aztec/Mexica population was "bouncing...

Resistance does not generally carry over between diseases. With a few exceptions. That was part of the Americans problem when European diseases came across, you got smallpox burning through with a mortality of 70 - 100 %, and when the survivors got up and looked around, what they saw (well many...

You know, I think people disagree severely because the Incas had huge advantages and equally huge disadvantages. That leads to massive swings in performance depending on which you emphasise. The thing to remember here, though is that most of their disadvantages were short or medium term and the...

Basically, what Twovultures said. Incas shedding overextended territory to consolidate in their highly defensible mountain territories is the way to go. With the added bonus that the climate of these territories will blunt the diseases somewhat. I do, however, question the notion that members...

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A week without sight of land is open sea navigation :)

You are going to have a lot of megalakes in the Sahara. Lake Megachad was bigger than the Caspian sea 7 000 years ago, and there will be several more. Some close to the Med. This could build a maritime tradition that OTL Africa missed. It may also mean African mosquitoes and diseases reaching...

Not sheep and rye, reindeer and potato. And fish, seals, whale, eggs and birds. Its the last place on earth, fit for the last people after all the rest of man is dead. Century after century under the aurora australis, the ice and the howling winds. Generation following generation, slowly...

I would have thought some of the Indonesian or Philippine thalassocracies would be more probable colonizers of Australia. Srivijaya, Medang or Majapahit for example. Not so much state-sponsored colonization as with trading posts at river mouths that grow into towns.

I think this was less of a thing in the 1700s than later. Not to say everything was fine, but I think racism really got its legs when slavery took off. If you can somehow get an Indian state from the ARW, that or those tribes may end up following the track of the Irish -initially low-status...

Oh -guess whats heavily underrepresented in graves from the end of the Norse time on Greenland? Women. Especially young ones. I don't know why, although several possibilities spring to mind.

I think the lack of timber was the real issue. And iron, but mostly timber. They did go on lumbering expeditions to Vinland but... at some point, over decades and centuries, some happenstance will leave you shipless. And then its all over because without ships, you cant go to Vinland for timber...

...and the diseases Smallpox is not going to be an issue at contact. Which is good, smallpox in a virgin field can have a mortality rate of 90 %. However, the Colombian exchange of disease also included measles, chickenpox, influenza, diphtheria, croup, cholera, scarlet fever, whooping...

I don't think the Greenland settlement called in any supplies from Iceland. They seem to have done OK without them. The Beothuk numbers are really old. 19th century. More recent estimates puts their numbers at 400 - 700 individuals at the time they encountered the English ( Marshall, A History...

If I understand you right, you are saying that at this stage in history, the populations were not differentiated enough, or we don't have enough resolution in our knowledge to differentiate them properly. I have been reading about the climate change and it is quite interesting. Bond events. I...

I'm really busy in Real Life, but I really felt I needed to knock out a few quick points, if I may: - I don't think the English settlers of Virginia or Massachusetts make a good model here, for several reasons: The Norse had a far, far more appropriate set of coping skills. They made a fairly...

I am not sure I follow the last bit? The closeness in timing is suggestive to me. Along with the spread of hill forts, it seems to me that there were something of a sea change taking place. That is interesting. It would seem to support the notion of a sea-based push from the western med, or...

I think you misread me, which is my own fault for making up terms:) By "dominoing" I meant one displaced people migrating into the territory of a second, in turn displacing them, and so on. Like dominoes toppling each other. The fact that we apparently had huge battles close to present-day...