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What if the Polynesian expansion never happened? What if, when European explorers landed in Hawaii, New Zealand, and other places, they met empty islands with no people at all?
Or maybe by these Polynesians .Maybe Australia's north would be colonized even by an Indo-Malayan power.
Very little real impact.So . . . no polynesian crops. Don't know enough about that to understand its effects.
No polynesian trade (this is probably no big deal, though it will retard initial settlement some).
No rediscovery of the primitive ideal in the 19th C.
Hmmm... And Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeants?NFL suffers quite a bit.
The South Americans would be without chickens and Indonesians would be without sweet potatoes. I'm sure this would cause some changes to the history of pigs as well.No polynesian trade (this is probably no big deal, though it will retard initial settlement some).
Northern Australia was not settled by Polynesians.Maybe Australia's north would be colonized even by an Indo-Malayan power.
Funny isn't it? There's Thor Heyerdahl and those other clowns runing around saying "look, Pyramids!", and all the time there's chickens and sweet potatoes literally staring them in the face.The South Americans would be without chickens and Indonesians would be without sweet potatoes.
Some islands would have people on it, like Madagascar would probably be settled by Africans, eventually.
Remember that without the Polynesians coming along and stripping the isles bare in order to fuel their continued expansions most of the Pacific islands will be covered in very thick, lush tropical rainforests.
Remember that without the Polynesians coming along and stripping the isles bare in order to fuel their continued expansions most of the Pacific islands will be covered in very thick, lush tropical rainforests.
Elfwine said:Sounds like the perfect place for exile-as-death-sentence for those not remotely used to it.
Or a paradise for some Native South and Central Americans. Just saying.
"It's a rainforest" does not mean "just like home" even so.