I voted for you! There's a lot of nice touches in your magazine format, though I'm a little curious why the Norse legacy seems to have been restricted to such a small area...
Thanks. I've avoided voting in MotF rounds I've ended as I'm unsure what the accepted etiquette is; certainly voting for one's self isn't really fair.
Good point on the Norse influence not being very widespread; realistically it would probably have spread further. My thought while making it was that the surrounding peoples would likely share some of the five traits identified while the Connecticut River basin nurtures the most complex civilization given it has New England's best farmland, was a major trade route, and the region has abundant supplies of good building stone. For example, the Natives in southeastern New England probably make use of the significant bog iron resources there. Still, even if the Norse influence somehow doesn't spread to, say, the Iroquois Confederation, the Quinecticuttans likely would have expanded more than they did given iron agricultural tools and a major domesticate ITTL caused the population explosion that allowed urbanization (Along with iron tools making quarrying more efficient). My thought was many of the surrounding tribes were likely vassals of a Quinecticuttan state centered on OTL Western Massachusetts, TTL's Quinecticutt Province.
