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Lands of Ice and Mice : An Alternate History of Thule

A timeline with a medieval divergence, set in the arctic parts of the northern hemisphere, written by DValdron and DirtyCommie. You can read the timeline here. Alternatively, you can read it more easily with the help of the chapter guide available below.

Premise and POD

The timeline concerns alternate advancements (mainly agricultural) among various Alaskan and Paleoasiatic Siberian peoples, and how these more advanced native cultures act once they come into contact with Europeans and Asians.

Chapters

A Brief Introduction to the Lands of Ice and Mice

#1: An Emperor Is Crowned

#2: The Point of Divergence - 717 Common Era (Part 1)

#3: The Point of Divergence - 717 Common Era (Part 2)

#4: Tanapok aka Alpine Sweetvetch (Hedysarum Alpinum)

#5: Spring Beauty/Eskimo Potato (Claytonia Tuberosa)

#6: Roseroot (Rhodiola Rosea)

#7: Culture is a moving target...

#8: Thule Domesticates - Dogs

#9: The Arctic Is A Harsh Landscape (Part 1)

#10: The Arctic Is A Harsh Landscape (Part 2)

#11: The Arctic Is A Harsh Landscape (Part 3)

#12: The Three Lesser Gifts - Secondary Cultivation in the Thule First Agricultural Period

#13: Almost One of the Big Three - First of the Secondary Domesticates

#14: The Upside Down Bounty - Sweetvetch's Opposite

#15: The Gift From the Shorelines

#16: The Unsocial Gift - Thief Under the Soil

#17: The Sweet Taste

#18: Pycrete Technology

#19: Meat and Muscle - Caribou Domestication

#19: The Big Shaggy - Domestication of the Musk Ox

#20: Ptarmigan - Small Domesticate, Big Impact

#21: An Emperor Is Dethroned

#22: Arctic Hare (Lepus Arcticus) - From Vermin to Livestock

#23: Of Mice and Vermin

#24: Verminators - Thule Semi-domesticates

#25: Traders of the North Pole

#26: They called it Bruce !

#27: Of Ice and Men

#28: Three From the East

#29: The Sixth Button - The Origins of the Thule Bronze Age

#30: Copper Cultures

#31: Tins for the memory

#32: Alaska - Westward Ho !

#33: Three From Alaska

#34: The Invasion of Siberia

#35: Interaction Between the Thule Culture and the Tlingit (proposed by eschaton, declared canon by DValdron)

#36: The Thule So Far... (timeline recap from 2000 BC to 1450 AD)

#37: A Survey of Key Thule Domesticates (brief domesticated species recap)

#38: The History of Metalworking Among the Thule Culture

#39: Greenland Before the Norse Interchange

#40: Greenland 1431 CE, Just Before the Norse Eastern Settlement

#41: Greenland Vignette (Part 1)

#42: Greenland Vignette (Part 2)

#43: When Worlds Met - A Reconstructed Survey of the Norse Interchange

#44: Thule Agriculture in Greenland

#45: Thule Animal Husbandry in Greenland

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Awards

Lands of Ice and Mice has won the “Best New Medieval Timeline” category in the 2011 Turtledove Awards.

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