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During my times here, I've got to encountered 3 timelines that are themed on successful formation of civilizations in the places which didn't IOTL that have interested quite very much :

"Lands of Red and Gold" (https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=110941)

This one is a fascinating piece of TL by Jared , and still on going. Very lovely to imagine how the Australian aborigines' success in developing their native domesticable crops into something that will make drastical change to the rest of the world. Not to mention the plagues as the indirect result through the success of their civilization building, that will haunt the world as somewhat of a Black Death Jr.



"Mississipi Rice" (1st incarnation : https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=110840&highlight=Mississipi ; 2nd : https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=132663)

This is also a TL of a great concept made by tormsen, utilitizing the potential of Mississipi Valley to build civilization there, complete with the utilitization of rice as the main diet outside of East Asia ! Also don't forget that this will alter the patterns of New World Civilization by the Europeans for good.



"Bronze Age New World" (I'd like to put the link to the site here, but it seems to be already dead :()

The last, but(personal opinion) not so much the least. An intriguing proposal by Doug Muir (is he actually the Doug M. from this site?) that the Arawaks which managed to develop navigation quality that on par with the Polynesians can have the chance to built their own civilization, on par with that of the Meso-Americans and Andeans, or at least close enough, with the trading network reach as far as Bermuda to the north and upper Amazon valley to the south, which the human-melting Tloggotl virus was one its products.




So, my basic curiosity is simple : what if all the three scenarios above happening in the same world ? A world with a *Mississipian civilization, a *Arawakan advanced maritime civilization, and Aururian crops and plagues. The lack of * sign for the Aururian part is intentional, for the realistic chance that they will develop just as in Jared's LoRaG. But you can't say so with the other two scenarios, which both happen in the same continent, in locations that are quite exposed to each other, they will inevitably affect each other.


So, I have two basic questions :

1) Concerning about the Americas, what will be of it with both regions Carribean and Mississipi Valley managed to have their own advanced societies ? Basically, when the sailors from the Old World arrive, what is it that they will see ?

2) Now it's maybe actually bothersome to add the LoRaG's *Australia in, but I'm still curious of how will the cross counter of Aururian and this scenario's *North America's influences play on the Old World, and also between themselves as well.


Discuss. :D
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