Just a crazy thought I had that has to do mainly with what modern languages would look like. The vast number of other butterflies would so change world history that I could never even begin to start identifying them, hence the purpose for this thread. The title says it all.
EDIT: This would probably make more sense with a few other constraints. Lets say the Indo-Europeans, from their starting point on the steppes of southern Russia or Central Asia, never move west of the Vistula, west of the Carpathians, or south of the Danube.
Check out this link for an overview of one of the most commonly accepted proposals for Indo-European origins in OTL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis
What sort of butterflies would we see, and what would happen to the rest of Europe's indigenous population?
EDIT: This would probably make more sense with a few other constraints. Lets say the Indo-Europeans, from their starting point on the steppes of southern Russia or Central Asia, never move west of the Vistula, west of the Carpathians, or south of the Danube.
Check out this link for an overview of one of the most commonly accepted proposals for Indo-European origins in OTL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis
What sort of butterflies would we see, and what would happen to the rest of Europe's indigenous population?
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