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  1. Flashman

    Pre-Columbian Native American cultures, PODs and alternate histories discussion

    Don't Chile and Patagonia already have guanacos? While I don't they were domesticated in Patagonia, it seems like if pigs reached Patagonia they would reach it as feral animals. So I don't see why it would kick-start domestication, seems like it would just be a new wild protein source.
  2. Flashman

    Map Thread XXII

    and what's that one setting that makes it's color go weird instead of being solid black?
  3. Flashman

    Map Thread XXII

    Yes, I sae every one I come across.
  4. Flashman

    Map Thread XXII

    Like that you're doing this. Historic coastlines should be paid more attention to. Would be neat if you would start doing this in WorldA format, though obviously that's a tremendous pain.
  5. Flashman

    A Map Shitpost Thread

    Montreal and Ile d'Orleans = Kaliningrad?
  6. Flashman

    WIP Map Thread

    Surely that's the last of the Comancheria
  7. Flashman

    WIP Map Thread

    The main story is: Atlanteans use their occupation of their cousins in Meropis, former lords of the continent of Mocosa, to extend the grip of their markets. A revolt by slaves and slave-mercenaries in the collapsing League of 7 Cities, following an ideology marked by a belief in the inevitable...
  8. Flashman

    Pre-Columbian Native American cultures, PODs and alternate histories discussion

    I'd guess that the main impediment was that they're largely solitary, not especially social animals. That's bad enough for the prospects of domesticating an herbivore, but would make things very difficult indeed for a large dangerous omnivore. The two large dangerous omnivores we've...
  9. Flashman

    Pre-Columbian Native American cultures, PODs and alternate histories discussion

    Tame or domesticated, I'm not sure I like the idea of ever of getting down to milk a bear... or any other carnivore for that matter. I assume you're already familiar, but I'd recommend reading over DValdron's "Bear Cavalry" to see the prospects of bear domestication.
  10. Flashman

    WIP Map Thread

  11. Flashman

    Pre-Columbian Native American cultures, PODs and alternate histories discussion

    Obviously I agree with Trey's overall point; there is nothing in extant American Indian folklore that seems to suggest empirical knowledge of some extraordinary ape creature. There's just a bunch of different stories about all sorts of human or humanoid creatures as we find in literally every...
  12. Flashman

    Pre-Columbian Native American cultures, PODs and alternate histories discussion

    A concept I've been thinking about recently: Natives across the south east are well known to have produced and exported the yaupon holly for the creation of the black drink, a ceremonial caffeinated beverage. It was widely consumed, from Cahokia in the north to Mesoamerica in the south. Its uses...
  13. Flashman

    Map Thread XXII

    I'm sympathetic to the view that western aid and economic entanglements, while perhaps abating suffering in the short term, may be holding these countries back from developing and ultimately doing more harm than good. However - in the short term there would be a tremendous amount of upheaval...
  14. Flashman

    What technologies could be invented to ensure the most technologically and scientifically adavanced Mesoamerica?

    How would increased domestication have no effect on "progress"?
  15. Flashman

    Flag Thread V

    I've enjoyed all of these designs to varying degrees, all are better than 90% of the Australia re-designs I've seen. But I would just note, for this last flag - I much prefer the Commonwealth Star to be in the upper-left hand corner, set in the blue band. The white on blue is better, and having...
  16. Flashman

    Flag Thread V

    The Afghanistan connection did occur to me, but I felt the wide pale and the different style of the symbols therein served as sufficient distinction. But all valid feedback, much obliged!
  17. Flashman

    Flag Thread V

    Pursuant to these discussions: I have become enchanted by the wild Cuban-Soviet proposal of a federation of socialist countries around the Red Sea, consisting of Somalia, newly-socialist Ethiopia, South Yemen, Djibouti, and with some kind of autonomy for the Ogaden and Eritrea. This concept...
  18. Flashman

    Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    Sloppy writing on my part: Nurthen (who I am most reliant on) only cites Soviet concern of Chinese influence as regards Somalia and, to a lesser degree, South Yemen, he doesn't bring it up relating to the Eritreans. And he does in fact hedge that the Soviet support to Eritrean movements is...
  19. Flashman

    Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    I've pursued this a bit more to try and find more detail on the matter. That this proposal was made seems to be nearly a matter of fact. The proposal was made on March 16th at a meeting that lasted all of 15 minutes before it broke down due to ireeconcilable hostility between the Ethiopian and...
  20. Flashman

    Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    We'll rather off topic, so I'll keep it brief: I do not mean to say that Nicholas II was good or forward-looking, he was an illiberal autocrat... but he rises out of a long line of autocrats dating to before modernity and indeed strove against it, which is fundamentally unliked the others who...
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