No Denmark - at all

[Redbeard]

Inspired by the thread about "No Lichtenstein" (and big scale world maps) I'd like to go one degree up in nation size and take it a step further - so, the PoD is that where you in OTL find present day Denmark there is simply nothing but open sea - and as long as there has been humans there has not been anything but open sea.

What will the consequences be, apart from paestry needing another name, and this post never being made, not by me anyway?

Regards

Steffen Redbeard

 

[Andrei]

No Carlsberg , no Tuborg , no Danish cookies , no Rosenborg palace , no Niels Bohr , Germany wins the european cup in 1992.

Now , seriously , I think Scandinavia would have been even more isolated and could have been dominated by other European countries if it remained backward.

 

[Diamond]

'Germany' might become a greater naval power...

The racial/cultural makeup of the British Isles would be completely different...

Climate might be significantly altered in the Baltic region, what with unimpeded current flow...

 

[Tyr]

Quite major effects on history to the point of which the world is unrecognisable.
Does this include the baltic islands too?
Without Denmark as a staging point we could well have a scandinavia which is a super Finland.


Anyway this is ASB....Though you would only have to raise world sea levels 2 inches or so

 

[Nicole]

How did the Germans migrate to Scandinavia? If they went through Denmark, the peninsula will remain populated by Finnic tribes if there's a larger gap, and the Germans will probably end up around modern Poland much earlier than OTL (so the Drag nach Osten, if it occurs, will be going into what is now Belarus)