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I suppose its understandable, but it is rather grating to see everything exactly the same way, states and all. I wouldn't do it, but then again, I don't really enjoy the 16th centuryYeah, guilty as charged. It's entirely a decision of story over science in alt-hist. Part of me really wants to start messing with Europe at the time of the Vinland contact, but another, bigger part of me wants to mess with OTL's 16th-century history (as Space Oddity put it once, "when everything was up in the air").
That said, if your dealing with climactic butterflies from an agricultural POD, those would be so far reaching as to make the world entirely unrecognizable everywhere, but with no easy way to determine the chain of cause and effect for the butterflies. So, that's why we "civilization building" writers all politely ignore those butterflies.
Vandalia Africana: Every time the Vandals migrate, they'll always end up in Africa, never mind the rather specific circumstances that led them to settle there IOTL