amarelo

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    What would Amarelo folklore look like?

    Around the world, folklore is defined as an expressive body of culture held by people composed of traditions and customs common to that culture. Folklore is often influenced and changed by culture, history and religion which affects its development and expansion. In fact, I decided to create a...
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    WI: What would an Asian slave-Iberian conflict play out?

    In the OTL, communities of runaway West African slaves who escaped plantations formed maroon communities in hinterlands beyond the colonies in the Americas. A speicific examples would be the mocambos and quilombos in colonial Brazil, formed by fugitive and runaway slaves into the hinterlands...
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    Economics of a Trans-Pacific Slave Trade

    In the OTL, the Atlantic Slave Trade involved the trade between three regions called Western Europe, West Africa and the Americas. Western Europe sent guns and manufactured products to West Africa, West Africa traded it for gold and slaves, slaves and gold are shipped to the Americas, the...
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    Transcripting Asian languages in Portuguese/Spanish langauge

    I'm developing a constructed language called Basa Amarelo, the pidgin language of the Kaom Amarelo, or the Asian slaves in America. The language is a pidgin that uses Iberian languages and Malay as base grammar and a variety of Asian languages for vocabulary. I searched for old spellings of...
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    Basa Amarelo grammar and vocabulary development

    Basa Amarelo is a pidgin language used by the Kaom Amarelo to communicate with each other. Originating from various disparate languages from Asia, the languages melded together with its words under an Iberian language basis. Basic Vocabulary @Caravels of Portugal @Hindustani Person
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    What deities and practices would be incorporated in an Asian slave religion?

    Ugama Cathay is a religion practiced by Amarelos, Asian slaves brought by the Iberian Union to Benoa Taixei (The Americas) from the 16th century to the early 19th century. Many of the Amarelos originate from several parts of Asia, some far as Mongolia, Tibet and Persia. Forbidden from...
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    Developing an Asian-American slave language

    I'm creating and designing a slave creole used by the Amarelos, who are Asian slaves in America. In the ATL, the language is descended from a pidgin language used for communication between Amarelos and their Iberian masters. The language is a mixture of Iberian languages and languages from...
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    Possible sites for procuring Asian slaves in the 17th century?

    I'm brainstorming an alternate timeline about Asian slaves in America. As other users pointed out in threads about Asian slaves, there are difficulties obtaining slaves from Asia due to many factors like tech level, cultural reasons and other things. To make the long backstory short for the...
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    What would an Asian-American religion look like?

    This thread is a hypothetical alternate religion thread. The point of the thread is to speculate what would an Asian-American religion look like in an alternate timeline. The Point of Divergence begins when the ban on slavery of Africans and Native Americans cause Iberian along with Dutch...
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