You're going to think I'm crazy even to think of a thread like this but here it goes anyway.
In 11th grade I took this elective AP course called Human Geography. It was a great course (probably my third favorite high school course behind AP Government and Politics and EP European History) and very informative too. Anyway at the beginning of the class we had a homework assignment to find and write a report on an article on some recent archeological find. Anyway, my article basically stated that many archeologists believe that there was in fact an advanced civilization in the Amazon that was destroyed by the European explorers, my ancestors.
The article goes on to say that the explorer Francisco de Carvajal (a friend of "myself") described great marvelous cities in the Amazon. Many modern archeologists today are saying that he might have been right. They say that the thick jungle we see today is just a cover of ancient civilizations that were built by people that were long ago exterminated by the Europeans.
Now I ask you, what if such an alternate civilization existed. And what if it was built by white people?
The POD of my timeline would be around 4000 BC but would not be felt by the Europeans until the mid 1500s. Basically, a famine strikes OTL Eastern Ukraine giving many Indo-Europeans farmers a need to migrate. I'm sure there were plenty of famines in the Indo-European farm world so the famine is not the POD. The POD is that a couple of a hundred farmers (who would've died IOTL) get the bright idea to built boats and sail down the Black Sea looking for more farmland. The farmers bring many crops (especially wheat) and farm animals which they bring to the Amazon upon arriving. ITTL, all the people who leave on the boats died IOTL of a famine. Due to this, the same people who lived in Europe IOTL up until the 1500s will also live ITTL. My main goal of making this distinction ITTL is to keep "myself" (the historical Emperor Charles V) alive because I intend for him to be the main anti-hero ITTL.
Now how the hell do the refugees go from the Ukraine to the Amazon by primitive boat? Notice I made the POD 6000 years ago on purpose. I want to give the refugees enough time to reach the Amazon (I intend for them to not arrive there until several centuries after they first left). Also, I intend for the refugees to live sort of a parrallel lives to the Europeans. They will first undergo a bronze age, then form a classical empire (around the same time as the Roman Empire) which will then fall and result in a medieval age which will end in a Renniassance righ around the time the Europeans (Spanish) arrive. Along the way, writing, the wheel and all that other good stuff will be invented independently.
What do you think so far?
In 11th grade I took this elective AP course called Human Geography. It was a great course (probably my third favorite high school course behind AP Government and Politics and EP European History) and very informative too. Anyway at the beginning of the class we had a homework assignment to find and write a report on an article on some recent archeological find. Anyway, my article basically stated that many archeologists believe that there was in fact an advanced civilization in the Amazon that was destroyed by the European explorers, my ancestors.
The article goes on to say that the explorer Francisco de Carvajal (a friend of "myself") described great marvelous cities in the Amazon. Many modern archeologists today are saying that he might have been right. They say that the thick jungle we see today is just a cover of ancient civilizations that were built by people that were long ago exterminated by the Europeans.
Now I ask you, what if such an alternate civilization existed. And what if it was built by white people?
The POD of my timeline would be around 4000 BC but would not be felt by the Europeans until the mid 1500s. Basically, a famine strikes OTL Eastern Ukraine giving many Indo-Europeans farmers a need to migrate. I'm sure there were plenty of famines in the Indo-European farm world so the famine is not the POD. The POD is that a couple of a hundred farmers (who would've died IOTL) get the bright idea to built boats and sail down the Black Sea looking for more farmland. The farmers bring many crops (especially wheat) and farm animals which they bring to the Amazon upon arriving. ITTL, all the people who leave on the boats died IOTL of a famine. Due to this, the same people who lived in Europe IOTL up until the 1500s will also live ITTL. My main goal of making this distinction ITTL is to keep "myself" (the historical Emperor Charles V) alive because I intend for him to be the main anti-hero ITTL.
Now how the hell do the refugees go from the Ukraine to the Amazon by primitive boat? Notice I made the POD 6000 years ago on purpose. I want to give the refugees enough time to reach the Amazon (I intend for them to not arrive there until several centuries after they first left). Also, I intend for the refugees to live sort of a parrallel lives to the Europeans. They will first undergo a bronze age, then form a classical empire (around the same time as the Roman Empire) which will then fall and result in a medieval age which will end in a Renniassance righ around the time the Europeans (Spanish) arrive. Along the way, writing, the wheel and all that other good stuff will be invented independently.
What do you think so far?