Would it be possible to have Homo Sapiens develop, but after that butterfly away every known culture and people on our world (no Romans, no Greeks, no Chinese, no Arabs, no Jews etc.) and still end up with a modern world that is superficially similar to our own?
I got the idea from the Stargate series. Many planets have a human population composed of kidnapped Earth humans from the Antiquity and Middle Ages, and some developed modern socieities that at first glance, could be on our own planet.
The SG-1 season 8 episode "Icon" and the season 9 episode "Ethon" for example show us a planet populated by kidnapped medieval Europeans who created a society very similar to East Germany in the 1980s.
Could we butterfly away every known OTL culture and still end up with a world like shown below in 2014, or would a modern technological culture developed like this look completely different?
I got the idea from the Stargate series. Many planets have a human population composed of kidnapped Earth humans from the Antiquity and Middle Ages, and some developed modern socieities that at first glance, could be on our own planet.
The SG-1 season 8 episode "Icon" and the season 9 episode "Ethon" for example show us a planet populated by kidnapped medieval Europeans who created a society very similar to East Germany in the 1980s.
Could we butterfly away every known OTL culture and still end up with a world like shown below in 2014, or would a modern technological culture developed like this look completely different?
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