"The chronicles say it was the year in which Isabel of Castille and Fernando of Aragon took the last stronghold of the Moorish Kings in Spain. The Astrologuers saw it growing in the sky and claimed that it announced their victory. The star disappeared a few days after Granada has fallen, and its disappearing was announced by an earthquake. It was also that year when the New world was discovered and when our nation was cleaned of the jewish stain. Star, victory, discovery and expulsion were unseen events that would soon be forgotten.
The following years the rains were more intense and the crops were good, but in the rest of Europe the rains were so intense that crops got rotten in the fields and famine and pestilence mastered the fields. Some people blamed the Pope (may God forbid them), some others blamed the followers of Luther, some others to the Turks, but nobody remembered the star that fell."
The idea is the following: year 1492 apart from OTL events there is one big asteroid that falls over Antarctica evaporating a big chunk of it and covering with black dust most of the rest of it, the ice will start to melt down making the sea level to increase...
I know we have already spoken/written about this, but how fast could it melt down completely?
Europe will be covered by the sea slowly. The Iberian Peninsula and Italy will not lose much territory but Flanders, the British Islands, big parts of France, Germany, Scandinavia, Russia and North Africa will be covered by the sea. What happens next? I suppose those people would migrate first to the higher lands in Europe, but as they become overcrowded, would they migrate to Russia/Africa/America?
What effects could it have in other parts? I suppose the civilized areas of the Americas would be relatively spared (as incans and aztecs lived in high altitude areas). What about Asia? I suppose that the most densely populated areas in China and India would be covered.
The following years the rains were more intense and the crops were good, but in the rest of Europe the rains were so intense that crops got rotten in the fields and famine and pestilence mastered the fields. Some people blamed the Pope (may God forbid them), some others blamed the followers of Luther, some others to the Turks, but nobody remembered the star that fell."
The idea is the following: year 1492 apart from OTL events there is one big asteroid that falls over Antarctica evaporating a big chunk of it and covering with black dust most of the rest of it, the ice will start to melt down making the sea level to increase...
I know we have already spoken/written about this, but how fast could it melt down completely?
Europe will be covered by the sea slowly. The Iberian Peninsula and Italy will not lose much territory but Flanders, the British Islands, big parts of France, Germany, Scandinavia, Russia and North Africa will be covered by the sea. What happens next? I suppose those people would migrate first to the higher lands in Europe, but as they become overcrowded, would they migrate to Russia/Africa/America?
What effects could it have in other parts? I suppose the civilized areas of the Americas would be relatively spared (as incans and aztecs lived in high altitude areas). What about Asia? I suppose that the most densely populated areas in China and India would be covered.