What would be the result?
I'm not to focused on America, because it's way simpler to figure out. Anyways for one that's a lot more people in Asia
Wouldn't America be then populated by ice age Europeans that crossed the North Atlantic ice shelf? Though their small numbers would certainly impact population spread and density.
Wouldn't America be then populated by ice age Europeans that crossed the North Atlantic ice shelf? Though their small numbers would certainly impact population spread and density.
Well, America would be colonized by Polynesians sooner or later.
Probably later -- they didn't even start settling Hawaii and Easter Island until about 500 AD; if the Vikings still show up to North America around 1000 AD, likely Polynesians will only have arrived on the west coast of the Americas a few centuries earlier, arriving at land truly untouched by man for thousands of miles.
Would the megafauna still be around? We could have Vikings riding mammoths fighting sabretoothed tigers! Isn't there some evidence that the little ice age was caused by the reforestation of North America after European illnesses killed everyone? Would this have led to a generally cooler world?
Wouldn't America be then populated by ice age Europeans that crossed the North Atlantic ice shelf? Though their small numbers would certainly impact population spread and density.
I think the biggest impact is wether or not these guys have enough time to create the great civilizations that sprang up in Mexico and Peru, and how their absence impacts Spanish dominance.
Also how would that bigger Siberian and presumably Niger Mongolian and Manchurian population affect the world.
So we'll not have the various polar Siberian maritime cultures cross the Bering Sea? Inuit languages are found on both sides of that sea.