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  1. How to save the Roman republic?

    Instituting a separation of military and civil governance in the provinces could help. To an extent, the Romans viewed all activity beyond a certain point (in early days the pomerium, later it was a bit more nebulous, but often delineated by land at the Rubicon River in Northern Italy) as being...

  2. Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    Finally! I'm caught up all the way! ahem Anyway, this is truly amazing, and I can't wait for more official posts. I understand that the work on Europe has stalled out somewhat, and I'm really interested in what exactly has been going on in the Thule southern ranges in the Americas since they...

  3. Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    No. No I did not. Only native American languages I have any firsthand knowledge of are Ojibwe and some of the other tribes in Michigan. Other than that, I look things up. I didn't even know that Inuktitut had a written form, I was mostly looking at Kalaalisut, especially since the events were...

  4. Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    Way back on page 35, but given linguistics is my specialty, I had to give some some late input/commentary. The Inuit languages, at first glance anyway, seem to be a poor fit to a syllabic writing system, they have far too fluid vowels, too many diphthongs, and entirely too many consonant...

  5. Axis of Andes

    Just finished the first page. I don't usually read anything but agricultural timelines, and especially not post-1900 ones, except the occasional ISOT, but this has grabbed my attention.

  6. WI Native Americans/First Nations adopt crops and technologies from the Vikings.

    I was unaware of that, thank you. Okay, depending on the time period we're talking for the interchange, changes what the Norse have to offer in the first place, and I think we need to cover that. Are we talking the height of Norse settlement? Then we have about a thirty year span in the twelve...

  7. WI Native Americans/First Nations adopt crops and technologies from the Vikings.

    On to my own thing, I believe that iron-working, or at least metalworking, would be relatively easily adopted by the natives, especially to the Copper Culture. Nomads are often surprisingly good metalworkers, I point to the example of the Germanic tribes before the Migration Period, they were at...

  8. WI Native Americans/First Nations adopt crops and technologies from the Vikings.

    This assumes that they are willing to listen to them. If I recall correctly, corn hadn't crossed the Mississippi yet at this point, let alone reached the eastern seaboard and St. Lawrence Seaway. Though, I'm willing to give that the benefit of the doubt. I'll agree that barley might seem...

  9. WI Native Americans/First Nations adopt crops and technologies from the Vikings.

    A problem with the portage idea that hasn't yet been mentioned. Why? They would need to know there was a river close by to portage to, and rivers don't exactly stand out at ground level, now by this point inland, they'd be wise to have native guides with them, but the vikings weren't noted for...

  10. WI Native Americans/First Nations adopt crops and technologies from the Vikings.

    The First Nations peoples already had dogs, they brought them along across the straits. Otherwise, keep going. I'm going with plausible, if unoriginal.

  11. Cool Potential Domestications

    On the idea of domesticated dolphins, another problem is their fission-fusion behavior. Pods will merge into huge super-pods, and then divide up into smaller ones again, but with different members than the original pods. I assume it's some kind of strategy to avoid inbreeding and settle...

  12. Cool Potential Domestications

    Well, I don't know about what's normal, but when my sister had pet snakes, we usually fed them live things. Usually drawn from my unending supply of hamsters.. I vaguely recall something about snakes refusing to eat already dead stuff, so they'd probably retain their hunting instinct somewhat...

  13. Cool Potential Domestications

    DValdron, probably that last one. There are so few decent length paleolithic/geologic POD timelines out there. Looking on ASB just results in endless aborted ISOTs and looking on you guys' profiles mostly leads to a bunch of political discussions, with a timeline scattered here and there...

  14. Cool Potential Domestications

    Don't know if they've been mentioned, but I rather like the idea of weaponizing skunks as a possible domesticate. Talk about chemical warfare. :cool: Maybe Demon Duck of Doom from Australia, or that weird giant kangaroo with a koala face? On an unrelated note, even withdrawing the timelines...

  15. I'm reading Lands of Ice and Mice, which you commented on about 5 years ago, about a timeline...

    I'm reading Lands of Ice and Mice, which you commented on about 5 years ago, about a timeline involving Neanderthals. Could you send me a link of that if available?

  16. Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    I'm still back in the stuff from early 2012, but, just curious, is this still ongoing?

  17. Empires on the Ohio

    Dead after one post? I really need to find better interests. Almost everything I read here is like this. :(

  18. African rice domesticated in fourth millennium BC

    I always seenlm to find myself on nearly dead threads. On the religious aspect from a few pages ago, the way you describe their base religion, I immediately thought it might develop into something perhsps resembling Shintoism. IIRC they didn't merge local deities with similar roles, snd the...

  19. WI: Byzantine remnents flee west in a "Third Odyssey"

    Does anyone know a place I could look for information on old mining sites, places where resources could be found by the prospective migrants? Iron and coal especially, but also naptha. On the numbers, I thinking no less 2 and no more than 20 thousand, I understand that the trip will be...

  20. WI: Byzantine remnents flee west in a "Third Odyssey"

    Of course, we're all ignoring one obvious solution to one problem: assimilate the natives. The Romans were, historically, experts at assimilating more primative cultures. They beat up the locals for breathing room, playing tribal rivalries against each other, built cities and populated them with...
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