What POD's would be needed to make Germania between the Rhine and the Elbe as developed as Gaul, or at least more developed than it was, by the time the Romans arrive?
What effects would this have?
What effects would this have?
What POD's would be needed to make Germania between the Rhine and the Elbe as developed as Gaul, or at least more developed than it was, by the time the Romans arrive?
What effects would this have?
You'd need a totally different climate, so that agricultural production is lots higher than OTL.
This of course produces so many butterflies that there may not even be a Roman Empire.
You'd need a totally different climate, so that agricultural production is lots higher than OTL.
This of course produces so many butterflies that there may not even be a Roman Empire.
To be fair, better agricultural techniques could help as well: heavy plow, better crop rotation, better crops in general.
Of course, those would also work in Gaul, and Gaul is more likely to inventthose...
To be fair, better agricultural techniques could help as well: heavy plow, better crop rotation, better crops in general.
Of course, those would also work in Gaul, and Gaul is more likely to invent those...
While Gaul is more likely to invent those, they would spread pretty quickly into Germania and probably help it develop. The heavy plow and crop rotation some centuries earlier means a bigger, more sedentary population that is trading with Gaul (and possibly *Rome), picking up new inventions and refining them.