Before the Ice Age ended, most of the world was home to megafauna such as ground-sloths, glyptodonts, mammoths, short-faced bears, driptodons, etc.
So say these megafauna survive in America and Australia (those being the two major places that the Europeans had no contact with whatsoever) until at least the time the Europeans arrive.
I want to know how the OTL Europeans would react to a whole new world filled with strange beasts but no humans (makes things easier).
Allowing said megafauna to survive and keeping humans from settling America and Australia would have butterflies sufficient to get rid of Europe as we know it, so I must regrettably use the assistance of our friendly neighborhood ASBs.
The Americas and Australia are ISOTed to 1492, and the climate isn't visibly changed. Yeah, I know this should go into ASB Forum, but I'm posing the question to how the Europeans (and Columbus) would respond to the megafauna, not what the world would be like.
So say these megafauna survive in America and Australia (those being the two major places that the Europeans had no contact with whatsoever) until at least the time the Europeans arrive.
I want to know how the OTL Europeans would react to a whole new world filled with strange beasts but no humans (makes things easier).
Allowing said megafauna to survive and keeping humans from settling America and Australia would have butterflies sufficient to get rid of Europe as we know it, so I must regrettably use the assistance of our friendly neighborhood ASBs.
The Americas and Australia are ISOTed to 1492, and the climate isn't visibly changed. Yeah, I know this should go into ASB Forum, but I'm posing the question to how the Europeans (and Columbus) would respond to the megafauna, not what the world would be like.