Would the Mississipians even get directly involved with a group that's a continent away from them, rather than just using proxies? The various Indian confederacies that dominated the fur trade in the northeast might pop up earlier hear.
I think the mound building civilizations were as far north as the Great Lakes in the period the Vikings showed up, but don't quote me on that. The northern proxies was more I meant in terms of it trickling down the Mississippi to them. If they could keep it together after the diseases (and some held on in OTL like the Natchez), they might absorb some of the animals and metallurgy over time. There's tons of possibilities though. The northern confederacies might rise to absorb what's of use from both civilizations, or collapse themselves, or so on and so forth. Just throwing ideas out there.
More or less my idea was Vinland holding on wouldn't translate into an earlier mass settler colony, but just open up a more complex history of exchange for at least a few centuries before European powers become a more direct presence in the hemisphere. More likely too you could see Muslim traders and raiders arrive as well (and they are far more likely to be the ones to happen upon the Caribbean and Mesoamerica).
Yes, because there would never be any foreign immigration to the Americas if the Nordics got here first.![]()
Exactly, that's why I was like
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