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Based on the main lines of "Guns, Germs and Steel", what if some animls were not extinct in some parts of America?

2000 BCE: First stable village in the America's. It will be the core of the future Haquatech nation.

1500 BCE: In modern day New Orleans, horses are used for eating.

About 1400 BCE: The wheel is invented.

1300 BCE: First semi-nation created. It has now long vanished. Many experts now believe it was actually Farkeh. With it appears a language. It will not last very long, but it is a start.

1000 BCE: First signs of fishing, in the Mississippi river.

900 BCE: First recorded use of the Smilodon-Fatalis in a battle. It was later domesticated.

700 BCE: Use of birds (pigeons mostly) for many purposes: Mail, spotting and as a psychological deterrent of enemies.

500 BCE: Jaura kingdom established in modern day Florida. It is the first to really deserve the word 'kingdom'. It establishes trade with the Mayans.

300 BCE: The god wars- the Jaura battle the Farkeh, after a religious discussion. They will fight for the next 150 years, causing many casualties- but also the military technology needed to fend off the Europeans.

150 BCE: The once mighty dynasties of the past give way to new ones: The domestication of the Smilodon brings a series of diseases on the land. The new dominant nations are Jareue, and the Haquatech- with a powerful new religion. The Rejawhi were less dominant, and keen on self stability.

100 BCE: The Jareue except the sun-god religion, and sign a peace treaty with Haquatech. The two are now ready to colonize other lands.

28 CE: Kologhan the I, king of the elected emergency council drives the Haquetech out of Mayan territory. The historical unification of the Maya will not last long, and although Kologhan the I and II rule quietly, when danger ceases- old rivalries pop again.

31 CE: The Haquetech finally split, after a long civil war between the colonies and the center. The new nation will be called Nachuacheq, and although it did absorb many of it's aspects- now focused on going into Mexico, and adopted a desert-like lifestyle. Their motherland however was on the break of disaster, as the culture dictated that when two claim to the throne- the country was to be split until a resolution was found. The trouble was- that they often split into two waring factions, that never came back but by war.

33 CE: A failed Jareue conquest on Rejawhi leaves it vulnerable, and seals the first chapter of the story with a broken North-American society. Though trade flourished, if the Americans are to get to colonize anything, or even contact South-America, they will need to be more united.


Up next: The Haquetechtian time bomb explodes, leaving two warring states.

The Rejawhi step out of their isolation and offer to solve their disputes, but that leads to that in the first time in centuries, there will be two major religions- that will need to learn to live in peace.

Kologhan the second's rule starts badly, and by the third- his empire crumbles. How will the Mayans get out of the constant city-states war they are locked in (although they make some technological progress in the meantime- like in renaissance Italy).

The map will come. Enjoy.
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