Challenge: Hybrid Civilizations

i had a dream of a mexica-puritan mix... more of a business-trade relationship that grew into more than anything but it still kicked ass...these puritans weren't gonna take shit from nobody
 
I see many good ideas, but the most plausible scenario, if you asked me, would be a Polynesian-European culture involving a POD during the age of trans-oceanic exploration. Perhaps a fleet of British or French ships gets marooned on a Polynesian island and the castaways become assimilated into the society of the natives on the archipelago.

Then again, most of Latin America is a hybrid civilization of Spanish and indigenous cultures, so now that I think about it, this phenomenon was common IOTL.

I also wrote an AH on this site about a "Norskimo" culture. Basically, the Greenland Norse survive by integrating into the local Inuit population and from Greenland and Labrador-Newfoundland their hybrid offspring colonize much of Northeast Canada and move southward into New England and the Great Lakes region. I never finished the scenario however.
 
Another one I thought of -- Vlacho-Greek. Created at some point when large amounts of Vlachs / Romanians settled in Byzantine lands (following either a displacement from Magyar invasion, or overpopulation from no Magyar invasion) and a good deal of assimilation goes both ways. Eventually the Vlachs are assimilated, but into a culture that in many ways resembles the old Vlach culture (language, etc).
 
Isn't modern Japan more or less a Japanese-Western hybrid?

I think that's a common misconception- the highly visible misunderstandings of aspects of Western culture that are so obvious in modern Japanese pop culture are just a veneer. Underneath, absolutely nothing has changed.
 
Yeah, props to the Japanese for maintaining so much and adjusting so well.

On that note, a Japanese-Amerindian hybrid would be interesting. The Americas being Japanised by adopting Japanese social institutions and religions. So basically we have the system of Daimyos, Samurais etc in America, except the divisions are ethno-tribal and more permanent.

Indianized Africa would also be interesting. IOTL, Indian Sailors Traded quite a bit with Ethiopia and the Somali states, until the Arab Rise forced them to look elsewhere for trading partners which they found in Southeast Asia.

Hellenic Hybridizations are also pretty awesome. A thoroughly Hellenized India and Persia would be kinda cool. Imagine the coolness of a hybrid Greek-South Indian Architecture.
 
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