Your favourite "X colonize the New World"

Your prefered colonization of the Americas?


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In my own TL, I have a Basque Venezeula, Chinese Pacific North West, Norse Canada, and a Portuguese Deep South, which I think is a fairly entertaining combination. Failing that though, I'd enjoy seeing a Viking influenced New World, complete with horses and metal weaponry when the Europeans arrive.
 

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along the lines of something different -

Jews &/or Gypsies.

Hear me out - these were, during the middle ages, two of most persecuted groups in western europe, IIRC, so they would have the motivation to move out.

They were also small enough, that their disappearance in the midst of various pogroms or other turbulence could go relatively unremarked.

both had access to some interesting developments for the new world (writing, coinage, sailing, horses, metallurgy), while being small enough that they would almost inevitably be absorbed into the local tribal structures from an ethnic/genetic/etc viewpoint.
 
along the lines of something different -

Jews &/or Gypsies.

Hear me out - these were, during the middle ages, two of most persecuted groups in western europe, IIRC, so they would have the motivation to move out.

They were also small enough, that their disappearance in the midst of various pogroms or other turbulence could go relatively unremarked.

both had access to some interesting developments for the new world (writing, coinage, sailing, horses, metallurgy), while being small enough that they would almost inevitably be absorbed into the local tribal structures from an ethnic/genetic/etc viewpoint.

There were settlements of Jews from Flanders and Portuguese Jews along West Africa.

Two Early Seventeenth-Century Sephardic Communities on Senegal's Petite Côte by Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta History in Africa, Vol. 31, (2004), pp. 231-256 Published by: African Studies Association

The basis for this is a portuguese report written about two settlements of Flemish and Portuguese Jews living under Jewish law. Some of these were so called "New Christians" who were convertees of Christianity but had renounced it when they settled in Africa.

The article is a really good read. Even if it isn't quite the New World, it is still Jewish Colonialism. Which is awesome.
 
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Historically, neither gypsies nor Jews were particularly keen on "mixing" with other peoples.

Apparently the Jews of Sierra Leone and Senegal intermarried with black women in the areas. Which is why they were basically invisible when the later colonization occured.
 
along the lines of something different -

Jews &/or Gypsies.

Hear me out - these were, during the middle ages, two of most persecuted groups in western europe, IIRC, so they would have the motivation to move out.

Really? Only the Western parts? As I recall they were severely oppressed in all of Europe except for maybe some Jewish communities in a few parts of the Ottoman Empire.
 
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