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Tagged with civilization alternate-history
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What sort of founder crops and/or domesticable food plants can be found in the tundra/subarctic, specifically the Alaska interior?
Another attempt at a broad question I asked here earlier. My aim here is to build another cradle of civilization from the ground up, in an area that never did (for fairly obvious reasons) and in an ...
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If Aluminum was non-reactive, could there have been an "Aluminum Age" instead of a Bronze Age?
Aluminum is the most common metal on Earth. Despite this fact, this element wasn't discovered until the 19th Century. This is because Aluminum is never naturally found in the ground. Instead, aluminum ...
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What kind of alternate history would lead to modern China being a federal constitutional monarchy? [closed]
I'm contemplating writing a fiction set in modern China in an alternate universe. I have thought about how it would look like, but I need a plausible alternate history that could lead to such result.
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A world without horse [closed]
Imagine that in ancient times, long before homo sapiens even exist, a certain, or a chain of certain events caused Equidae (horse family) creatures to go extinct, globally. So since the beginning of ...
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Could a large enough semi isolated population keep up with Eurasia in technology? [closed]
Could a semi-isolated country island about 3,000,000 square miles and 1000 miles south of India avoid becoming a colony and develop into a rich and strong modern state today?
They have about the ...
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Living on an Island - Minimal Population for Free Choice of Partnership
Ok, I'm working on an creating a fantasy island.
It plays in a similar time like the 17th to 18th century.
Everyone on the island has one job, so he/she can focus on it.
I estimated ~35 Jobs so far ...
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How advanced can a civilization get without zero?
More or less exactly what it says on the tin. Start with a group of cavemen on prehistoric earth, discovering fire, language, wheels, etc, and walk them along the path to civilization, but with one ...
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Earliest possible colony in the Americas?
The first Europeans to land in the Americas were Viking explorers who arrived in the 1000s. Viking colonisation didn't last, and sustained European colonisation began after the late 1400s when ...
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How could a single individual warn the following civilization after the fall of our current one? [closed]
Reviewers: reformulation according to this is done if the post is not okay yet, suggestions are welcomed in comments
The limits of the individual:
has no access to the mass media.
has the average ...
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The Camelry Has Arrived
This is a series of maps of Old World empires:
And now look at the pre-Columbian New World empires:
We're not 100% sure why Old World empires were so huge and New World empires so small, but a good ...
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Can sanitation spark an industrial revolution
In an Alternate Earth timeline, round about 1200 AD, we have the Great Alchemist and Philosopher Bob. Bob, being from a wealthy family has a handful of older brothers, so he's not likely to be an ...
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Reboot society with modern knowledge [closed]
Here's a thought experiment I've been pondering for a while:
Make a copy of Earth as it existed 5000-ish years ago, with all of the plants and animals, but without any people or any traces of human ...
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How long would it take to remove all trace of a civilisation, with malice and intent?
If you look at the history of the earth today, we've got quite a long timeline - about 4.5 billion years.
We've got a few hundred years of 'good' historical record, and it gets progressively more ...
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