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What would it take for the Native Americans to independently achieve some degree of industrial capacity? And once they did, what sort of political climate might form on the American contingent?

Here is what I have in mind: After homo sapiens migrated to the American continent, some sort of disaster befell populations in the Old World. Perhaps a disease of some sort, or a bizarre climatological phenomenon or something. The old world populations weren't necessarily killed off; perhaps most of them were out-competed by less intelligent hominids. In any case, it harshly reduced Homo Sapiens populations across the Old continent, particularly in Europe and the Middle East.

These factors combine to create a different sort of world. The upshot to all of this is that because of the decline in population, the development of civilization in Europe is set back by some tens of thousands of years, long enough for the New World populations to grow enough to really establish the sorts of civilizations that developed in Europe, the Mideast, India and East Asia, and essentially handing the Atlantic to them on a silver platter.

Now, with a PoD so far back, obviously it's not going to have any nations that we would readily recognize. However, in a general sense, what sort of geopolitical climate might arise from a more developed American continent?

My thoughts on the subject will be in the next post.
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