I'm so sorry to hear the news about your house. I hope it all turns out as best as it can.
I just started following this timeline recently. It took a while to read through it all and I think its great.
I like the idea of a more Christianized and democratic society forming out of the Norse in North America when compared to what most timelines go far. I think there are many key distinctions between what you are doing here and what others like to do that make this timeline really stand out.
I wonder if the aqueducts that are being revived in Spain will be spread to the Azores and then to the islands east of Florida and maybe to settlements across Appalachia. I think it'd a few independent cities emerging there would give the region a much more distinct political character from the Allthing dominated north and could cause some contention later on.
I also hope that at least some of the oppressed groups living along the Atlantic coast (Anglo-Saxons, Muslim Arabs, and Berbers being the most prominent) flee to the near mythological lands on the other side of the ocean. They don't have to be powerful or even remain independent of the Norse, just adding a little variety to the culture and character of the continent would be interesting (although a successful Muslim city-state far to the south of the Allthing, maybe even in South America would be quite an interesting development).
With the mix of massive stone structures, the potential inclusion of aqueducts, and the near obsession with conquest, expansion, and assimilation, I think the Norsemen in North America are well on there way to creating a Roman Empire-like spreader of technology and infrastructure (with other similarities including a republican assembly with aristocratic elements, a focus on military might, a distrust of kings, and being the most powerful civilization in what can be viewed as their world). I really do hope the Skraelings continue to be assimilated into Norse society, and that many more maintain their own identities but gain Norse technologies.
I'd love it if hundreds of years from now, Europe discovers a continent of mixed race Norse-Skraeling people who control massive cities of stone with sprawling empires. There is plenty of time for a Roman-like state to rise and fall before Europe arrives. I really wonder how that will go, seeing as how North America will probably be cut off from Europe by the Little Ice Age before guns and cannons begin to spread. I could see a continent of people living much like those at the pinnacle of the Classical Era suddenly being interrupted by expansionist Europeans with guns and ships that are smaller, but better equipped to cross the ocean.
I really hope that there will too many people immune to most European diseases for the Europeans to carve up and recreate the Americas like they did IOTL. You said that this timeline is going to go up to the late 1800s and, with less than two centuries having passed so far, I am really excited to see where it is going, wherever it is going.
I just started following this timeline recently. It took a while to read through it all and I think its great.
I like the idea of a more Christianized and democratic society forming out of the Norse in North America when compared to what most timelines go far. I think there are many key distinctions between what you are doing here and what others like to do that make this timeline really stand out.
I wonder if the aqueducts that are being revived in Spain will be spread to the Azores and then to the islands east of Florida and maybe to settlements across Appalachia. I think it'd a few independent cities emerging there would give the region a much more distinct political character from the Allthing dominated north and could cause some contention later on.
I also hope that at least some of the oppressed groups living along the Atlantic coast (Anglo-Saxons, Muslim Arabs, and Berbers being the most prominent) flee to the near mythological lands on the other side of the ocean. They don't have to be powerful or even remain independent of the Norse, just adding a little variety to the culture and character of the continent would be interesting (although a successful Muslim city-state far to the south of the Allthing, maybe even in South America would be quite an interesting development).
With the mix of massive stone structures, the potential inclusion of aqueducts, and the near obsession with conquest, expansion, and assimilation, I think the Norsemen in North America are well on there way to creating a Roman Empire-like spreader of technology and infrastructure (with other similarities including a republican assembly with aristocratic elements, a focus on military might, a distrust of kings, and being the most powerful civilization in what can be viewed as their world). I really do hope the Skraelings continue to be assimilated into Norse society, and that many more maintain their own identities but gain Norse technologies.
I'd love it if hundreds of years from now, Europe discovers a continent of mixed race Norse-Skraeling people who control massive cities of stone with sprawling empires. There is plenty of time for a Roman-like state to rise and fall before Europe arrives. I really wonder how that will go, seeing as how North America will probably be cut off from Europe by the Little Ice Age before guns and cannons begin to spread. I could see a continent of people living much like those at the pinnacle of the Classical Era suddenly being interrupted by expansionist Europeans with guns and ships that are smaller, but better equipped to cross the ocean.
I really hope that there will too many people immune to most European diseases for the Europeans to carve up and recreate the Americas like they did IOTL. You said that this timeline is going to go up to the late 1800s and, with less than two centuries having passed so far, I am really excited to see where it is going, wherever it is going.