Chinese in the New World TL

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Alrite. I looked it up. You have me on the coca/cocoa. I'll drop that idea and edit out the part about what he's chewing in the finished TL.
 

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This tl seems to be having some problems. I'm going to stop doing it for now. I screwed some things up and it seems to be more controversy than I'd rather, so I'm gonna stop for a while.
 
This tl seems to be having some problems. I'm going to stop doing it for now. I screwed some things up and it seems to be more controversy than I'd rather, so I'm gonna stop for a while.
It's not really that bad, just oversights on Mesoamerica. I was going to mention though that "5 Jaguar Tail" wouldn't exactly be a real Mixtec name. Mexicans took personal names from the day they were born according to the ritual-calendar, and added a nickname to it. The most famous Mixtec is 8 Deer Jaguar Claw, 8 Deer being the day he was born on. There are 20 different ritual days, and they go in coefficients of thirteen. If say you started on 1 Crocodile, the next days would be 2 Wind, 3 House, 4 Lizard, and so on until you reach 13 Reed, and then the next day is 1 Jaguar. The total list of the twenty day names is Crocodile, Wind, House, Lizard, Snake, Death, Deer, Rabbit, Water, Dog, Monkey, Grass, Reed, Jaguar, Eagle, Vulture, Earthquake, Flint, Rain, and Flower. Adding a number from 1-13 to any of these day names is all you really need to do to come up with a Mixtec birth name. Jaguar Tail is a plausible personal name as well, though 5 Jaguar Jaguar Tail would sound a bit odd.
 

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I somehow get the impression anything more I put into this timeline is also going to get put in the other timeline, with or without my permission, so I'm putting this on hiatus for now.
 

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Accurate or not, but I don't know everything. In my defense, I did look up stuff on Mesoamerica beforehand, so its not like I just made it up as I went. Most western sources on Native Americans don't give alot of information and usually call the tribes what Europeans called them, rather than what they called themselves.
 

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If its any help i was really enjoying your TL.

What plans have you for gun powder and weapons evolution in the new world?

With the scarcity of iron i am thinking gun powder will become more important not less in the new world for the moment.

Where are the Rockets?
 

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Well, I decided to stop for now so telling you that stuff would be kind of a tease and cruel, so I leave it your imagination.
 

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I decided I still want to continue this TL but in a setting where I will have more creative say over it and there will be fewer opportunities for others to copy me without my permission. I'm putting it on a blog I'll be starting. If you want details private message me.
 
I decided I still want to continue this TL but in a setting where I will have more creative say over it and there will be fewer opportunities for others to copy me without my permission. I'm putting it on a blog I'll be starting. If you want details private message me.

That would be good. :)

If you feel someone is plagiarizing and using your stuff, you could report it to the moderators.
 
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