WI:Eskimo/Inuit Population Explosion

Have them settle Iceland?

If (on a rare clear day) you can see Greenland from Iceland, you can see Iceland from Greenland-therefore some Inuit can (and probably did) know it was there. If they can reach it-their boats were good, but that's a long and dangerous passage-they can colonize it.

Just some more people for the Norse to conquer though.
 
If (on a rare clear day) you can see Greenland from Iceland, you can see Iceland from Greenland-therefore some Inuit can (and probably did) know it was there. If they can reach it-their boats were good, but that's a long and dangerous passage-they can colonize it.

Just some more people for the Norse to conquer though.

Or the other way round? :D
 
Smallpox was not endemic to northernmost Siberia.

Smallpox immunity was not genetic, but was dependent on regular exposure to it and other diseases - something impossible to replicate in Inuit territory. It'd be hard enough in Peru or Mexico, honestly.

And yes, the Norse got to Greenland before the Inuit, and indeed arrived there before the Inuit had finished settling much of Labrador.
 

Valdemar II

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Er... Reindeer and Caribou are the exact same species.
And North American inuit never lost contact with Eurasian inuit.

Yes they are the same species, so are wolves and dogs, the reindeers are the domesticated version of the caribou, and I can tell you the North American Inuits didn't herd caribou or reindeers.
 
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