The Book of Mormon tells of a world where four main groups of Hebrew refugees from Palestine (the Nephites, the Mulekites, the Lamanites and the Jeredites) take an ark, built by a prophet Nephi, from West Africa to Brazil around the year 1500 BC. They take with them Old World crops, animals, and technology such as wheat, barley, horses, elephants, chariots and iron smelting. The four groups split off after reaching the Americas and form their own culturally diverse societies, millions strong, spreading from Argentina to the Great Plains. Eventually, war breaks out, and the Jeredites conquer the entirety of the Americas.
Assuming this actually happened, the Hebrews would surely come in contact with Indigenous Americans, not an uninhabited paradise. So I had an idea to use it as a PoD for an alternate history.
C. 1500, BC. The Hebrews just landed on the coast of South America, near Brazil. South America at the time was full of Native people who had built vast civilizations already. Assuming the Hebrews didn't just intermix into the Native population and instead remained separate, what would have occured next. How would the Native People react to relatively light-skinned, Hebrew speaking Jews? Would the Hebrews be able to create their own society in the Americas, living alongside the Native tribes?
Assuming this actually happened, the Hebrews would surely come in contact with Indigenous Americans, not an uninhabited paradise. So I had an idea to use it as a PoD for an alternate history.
C. 1500, BC. The Hebrews just landed on the coast of South America, near Brazil. South America at the time was full of Native people who had built vast civilizations already. Assuming the Hebrews didn't just intermix into the Native population and instead remained separate, what would have occured next. How would the Native People react to relatively light-skinned, Hebrew speaking Jews? Would the Hebrews be able to create their own society in the Americas, living alongside the Native tribes?
