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  1. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    ok. I guess. Sure There is a difference between taming an individual animal and domesticating a group of animals. Taming is just individual animals getting used to human contact and maybe even being trained. Domestication is breeding animals so that they are always friendly to humans and...

  2. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Um... Thanks, I guess? Scientists have attempted to domesticate moose. It hasn't worked. I don't know if they can act like small cows or oxen, but they will be used for labor eventually. Dogs have long been used in warfare. I don't think goats will be. Wapiti will definitely be.

  3. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Yet. We don't have wheels yet.

  4. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    That is definitely a "Read and Find Out" question. But I will say that every word of the phrase "National Military Academy of England" was carefully chosen. Riding on the back of an elk, especially at any kind of speed, is quite difficult. They don't have a strong enough back to keep a person...

  5. AHC: Have the USA go to war with the most countries possible throughout its existence

    I think, in general, your best bet for this is for America to be a lot more intervention happy during the Cold War or an ATL Cold War. It could invade lots of countries in Africa, Latin America, or Asia as part of "containing communism".

  6. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Its the Wapiti Elk, not the red deer. And its a lot more difficult, as you might expect. Although most supplies are going to be transported over water, not overland.

  7. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL
    Threadmarks: Supplemental: The Book of War

    Supplemental: The Book of War Success in war cannot be bought, borrowed or stolen. Its only price is blood. – The Book of War Mahomet’s most famous act was to author the mazina'igan nandobani, often translated as “the Book of War”. At least, he is the one traditionally credited with writing...

  8. AHQ: Is a prosperous Congo possible with a 20th Century POD?

    Incompetent can kill just as many people as evil.

  9. AHQ: Is a prosperous Congo possible with a 20th Century POD?

    Or someone other than Lumumba or Mobutu comes to power who is anti-communist and anti-imperialist. Those aren't necessarily contradictory stances. They would promote some kind of French-style nationalism (so Zaire rather than Congo and Kinshasa rather than Leopoldville). And actually use...

  10. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Thanks! Its like waves at a beach going up with the tide. In and out but always higher than before.

  11. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Apparently, I need to be more subtle in the "set up" parts of my TL. Or I need to steal ideas from less obvious eras in history. Put down the crystal ball and enjoy the ride. :winkytongue:

  12. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL
    Threadmarks: Chapter 39: The People of the South Wind

    Chapter 39: The People of the South Wind The Wasioto basin [Nashville basin] was particularly hard hit by the disruptions of the 530s and 540s. The Yuchi people who inhabited the Wasioto Basin may have seen as much as a 50% drop in population (from either death or migration) in less than 20...

  13. Avoid the 2008 crisis

    Eh. Plenty of bankers committed fraud, sure, but plenty of them were just straight up bad at their jobs. Separating out which ones were evil and which ones were incompetent is and was a fool's errand. And plenty of regular, everyday people committed fraud by lying on their mortgage...

  14. Avoid the 2008 crisis

    That might lessen the size of the crisis but the seeds of the 2008 financial crisis were sown starting in the 1970s. There was going to be a major market correction no matter what economic policies George W. Bush's administration pursued. Not bailing out the banks would work until every...

  15. Avoid the 2008 crisis

    I don't think you understand the sheer scale of the 2008 financial crisis. The mortgage market was overvalued by trillions of dollars. No government in the world, no combination of governments could subsidize their way out of the crisis completely. There was going to be a sharp and painful...

  16. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Thanks! There are limits. We can't make Asian rice grow wonderfully well in northern Saskatchewan (where Wild Rice grows just fine), after all.

  17. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Rice Production in Mexico: But note that this is Asian rice, which is a tropical plant. This is not wild rice, which is much less heat tolerant.

  18. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you mean, growing wild rice and maize in the same community, the ATL peoples of North America already do that. Some communities grow more of one then the other due to local conditions but growing both is already widespread ITTL.

  19. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Thanks! To take these each in turn: 1) Florida, the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, Central America are all tropical climates. Wild rice is really a cold temperate plant. I think it could be bred to survive the sub-tropical areas of the American Southeast but further south is just too hot. 2)...

  20. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Yup. Fermentation would take about 2-3 days (or less) and it would spoil after a week or so. Very little carbonation as well. That's what making beer with wild yeast does.
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