Iron Age New World

Brushing up on Brone Age New World* again I'm thinking what if instead of a year 500 POD we start with a year 1000 POD and iron stead of bronze. So hypothetically a Viking ship comes ashore in Mexico and it's crew loses a battle with and are imprisoned by the Toltecs. They incorporate the Viking iron smelting, and ship building technology into their society.

The influx of various Viking technology prevents the collapse of the Toltecs and instead ushers in a new maritime age in which Totec sailors trade as far east as the Amazon river, as far north as the Mississippi, and far south as the Chimu and Tiwanaku cultures of South America.

By the time Columbus arrives in the New World he will find it well into an iron and sailing age. Plausible?


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https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=126853
 
While this point might not in itself make the scenario implausible, it's a bit of a stretch to have a Viking ship wind up in the Gulf of Mexico. With small open boats and limited knowledge of navigation, the Vikings preferred to stay within sight of land, which meant crossing the Atlantic via a series of brief jaunts, i.e. Norway-Iceland-Greenland-Vinland. IMO to get a Viking excursion to the Caribbean, planned or otherwise would require some sort of enduring Vinland or even a more southerly major settlement.
 
Well, Inuits in Canada had Iron traded and traded over and over from their Inuit cousins in Siberia who got it from the Russians...
 
well once vikings have reached vinland, it isnt hard to think that they didnt OTL reach the carribean (at least one ship or two), there are local legends and the such, if u interpret them that way:;)
 
well once vikings have reached vinland, it isnt hard to think that they didnt OTL reach the carribean (at least one ship or two), there are local legends and the such, if u interpret them that way:;)

It's very unlikely, actually. Vinland was not a lasting settlement, it was the outer edge of an extended, increasingly tenuous trade and migration network. If the settlers had thrived, they would doubtlessly have ranged that far within a generation or two on locally built ships. But there were no locally built ships, no surplus populations, and no home to leave and return to. If you had reached Vinland, what you did was go back to Greenland or Iceland, not onwards to, for all you knew, nowhere.
 

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It's very unlikely, actually. Vinland was not a lasting settlement, it was the outer edge of an extended, increasingly tenuous trade and migration network. If the settlers had thrived, they would doubtlessly have ranged that far within a generation or two on locally built ships. But there were no locally built ships, no surplus populations, and no home to leave and return to. If you had reached Vinland, what you did was go back to Greenland or Iceland, not onwards to, for all you knew, nowhere.
Because otherwise the natives would kill you. Hostile natives was probably the reason colonization of Vinland was impossible.
 
Because otherwise the natives would kill you. Hostile natives was probably the reason colonization of Vinland was impossible.
very true, but there is evidence that the Vinlanders did trade with the newworld natives for several hundred years; so it is not beyond the realm of possibility that one ship went a lot further then expected.
 
Well, Inuits in Canada had Iron traded and traded over and over from their Inuit cousins in Siberia who got it from the Russians...

I am suddenly imagining some kind of catastrophe and political situation keeping Europeans from crossing the Atlantic...and then hundreds of years later, Russian guns used for hunting make their way over the Bering Strait...
 
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