Penny for your thoughts...
As its history would be so much more interesting, in the Chinese sense at least, were it to retain all those troublesome religious fanatics who began immigrating in the early seventeenth century, what's the best way to significantly delay English colonization of North America, while minimizing butterflies elsewhere? A particularly buxom native prostitute with a nasty case of syphilis entertaining the Jamestown colonists? Or perhaps a nasty hurricane? Would the failure of Virginia be enough to slow or prevent entirely the Great Migration?
Time-line may follow, if there is any interest.
As its history would be so much more interesting, in the Chinese sense at least, were it to retain all those troublesome religious fanatics who began immigrating in the early seventeenth century, what's the best way to significantly delay English colonization of North America, while minimizing butterflies elsewhere? A particularly buxom native prostitute with a nasty case of syphilis entertaining the Jamestown colonists? Or perhaps a nasty hurricane? Would the failure of Virginia be enough to slow or prevent entirely the Great Migration?
Time-line may follow, if there is any interest.