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This Alternate Timeline explores a world where Caucasians rather than Asians migrated across the Bering Land Bridge. This idea may seem ubsurd knowing the currect geographic distribution of Europeans in Eurasia, however, Caucasian people 12,000 years ago inhabited much more of Eurasia than they do today. This map was created by Anthropologist Carleton Coon. It illistrates the extend of Caucasians at the end of the Pleistocene age (10,000 bc) in lime green.
American Indians themselves are an ancient mix of Asian & Caucasian peoples. In this TL Proto-Europeans continue to migrate to the east coast of Eurasia. They inhabit the area north of Manchuria stopping proto-asians from migrating north. Eventually around 15,000 bc these "Ameripeans" cross the bering land bridge. They would follow much the same routes that Amerindians did in our own timeline. They would speak pre-indo-European languages that would probably resemble Finnish-Ugric or Altaic languages more than they do Indo-European ones. Much of Afro-Eurasian history would go on inchanged from our own timeline. Even in our own timeline north-east Siberia was uncharted territory. Not until the 16th century was northern Siberia even incorporated into a single political entity. Just as in our own TL the Americas would be sevred from the Old World and would not be rediscovered until the late 15th century. The Ameripeans would live very simular lifestyles to those of our Amerindians or pre-roman Europeans. Hunter-gatherer societies practicing various forms of Animism. Perhaps like in our own universe more complex civilizations would spring up in Central America just based on geography. If one compared the traditional clothing of American Indians & pre-Roman Europe there are more similarities than differences. Largely because climate plays such a huge role in the development of culture as well as genetics.
Those Ameripeans that inhabit Temperate/Polar climates (Canada, Northern US & Patagonia) would retain light skin & develop fair eyes/hair making them nearly indistiquisable from North Europeans. Those Ameripeans that migrated to Arid & Tropical climates would develop darker skin similar to that of Southern Europeans. When the Spanish arrive in central America they would see the natives as just pagan Spainiards who speak an odd language. Much as in our world disease from Europeans would tear through the native population. This population decline in the Americas would facilitate the religious & linguistic conversion of the Native population.
The phenotypic simularities between the Latin American natives & their Iberian colonizers would make it far too easy to assimulate into Spanish & Portuguese civilization. Same would become true of the north American natives who would be assimulated into either French or English society. I do not pretend to know how the history of North America would have played out. Perhaps, the French might have won the 7 years war but we'll never know. I will predict that Latin America would remain under Iberian rule much longer, perhaps even until the 20th century. The English may try to wrestle Patagonia away from the Spanish much more aggressively in this timeline as the natives their would feel more in common with Northern Eurpeans than Mediterraneans. An interesting reconvergence in this TL would be the "Eskimos." They would live a lifestyle simular to that of the Lapps or Finns back in Europe. These Arctic Ameripeans would develop slight Asiatic features just as their counterparts in Europe.
American Indians themselves are an ancient mix of Asian & Caucasian peoples. In this TL Proto-Europeans continue to migrate to the east coast of Eurasia. They inhabit the area north of Manchuria stopping proto-asians from migrating north. Eventually around 15,000 bc these "Ameripeans" cross the bering land bridge. They would follow much the same routes that Amerindians did in our own timeline. They would speak pre-indo-European languages that would probably resemble Finnish-Ugric or Altaic languages more than they do Indo-European ones. Much of Afro-Eurasian history would go on inchanged from our own timeline. Even in our own timeline north-east Siberia was uncharted territory. Not until the 16th century was northern Siberia even incorporated into a single political entity. Just as in our own TL the Americas would be sevred from the Old World and would not be rediscovered until the late 15th century. The Ameripeans would live very simular lifestyles to those of our Amerindians or pre-roman Europeans. Hunter-gatherer societies practicing various forms of Animism. Perhaps like in our own universe more complex civilizations would spring up in Central America just based on geography. If one compared the traditional clothing of American Indians & pre-Roman Europe there are more similarities than differences. Largely because climate plays such a huge role in the development of culture as well as genetics.
Those Ameripeans that inhabit Temperate/Polar climates (Canada, Northern US & Patagonia) would retain light skin & develop fair eyes/hair making them nearly indistiquisable from North Europeans. Those Ameripeans that migrated to Arid & Tropical climates would develop darker skin similar to that of Southern Europeans. When the Spanish arrive in central America they would see the natives as just pagan Spainiards who speak an odd language. Much as in our world disease from Europeans would tear through the native population. This population decline in the Americas would facilitate the religious & linguistic conversion of the Native population.
The phenotypic simularities between the Latin American natives & their Iberian colonizers would make it far too easy to assimulate into Spanish & Portuguese civilization. Same would become true of the north American natives who would be assimulated into either French or English society. I do not pretend to know how the history of North America would have played out. Perhaps, the French might have won the 7 years war but we'll never know. I will predict that Latin America would remain under Iberian rule much longer, perhaps even until the 20th century. The English may try to wrestle Patagonia away from the Spanish much more aggressively in this timeline as the natives their would feel more in common with Northern Eurpeans than Mediterraneans. An interesting reconvergence in this TL would be the "Eskimos." They would live a lifestyle simular to that of the Lapps or Finns back in Europe. These Arctic Ameripeans would develop slight Asiatic features just as their counterparts in Europe.
