DBWI: Hesperian Camelids and Horses go extinct in Hesperia?

SunKing105

SunKing105

OOC: Hesperia is the Americas, Madeira is South America and Columbia is North America.
At the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, the growing population of Homo Sapiens invaded the two great continents known as Hesperia rapidly driving many species to extinction, though this is debatable. Most of the Ice Age megafauna would be wiped out, but 2 species survived: Hemiauchenia macrocephala (Hesperian camelids), and Equus ferus (Horses). Their domestication by Hesperian natives greatly influenced the course of world history, and saw the rise of great civilizations on the 2 great continents. Genetic evidence shows a dangerous genetic bottleneck around 12,000 years ago, and they could have been hunted to extinction. What if they hunted to extinction in the Pleistocene, how would it change world history.
 
Dolan

Dolan

Banned
Columbian Horses are one of the factors that drove Spain and British Empires to conquer their Eastern Columbian Dominions.

They were bred for their size, strength, and ferocity, and in ages before neither gunpowder nor mechanized vehicles took over, a charge done from 8 feet tall Horses carrying fully armor-clad men is one of the most devastating and demoralizing attack you could've done on the battlefield.
 
Whiteshore

Whiteshore

For starters, without horses and camels (along with Hesperian False Hippos (OOC: Toxodon) and False Camels (OOC: Macrauchenia)), Hesperian civilizations would have had a harder time facing off against Europeans, even if they still saw economic imperialism and conquest of much of the Atlantic Coast.
 
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