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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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