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  1. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL
    Threadmarks: Supplemental: Shawnee Scripts

    Supplemental: Shawnee Scripts First, a quick reminder on how Mowin Syllabics functions. It is written right-to-left, similar to Hebrew or Arabic. Each glyph represents either a consonant+vowel pair such as pa- or he-, a vowel such a a-, or a consonant cluster such as -nd. A diacritic is a sign...

  2. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Yup The 536 AD event is a real thing. It was a volcanic winter that caused crop failure throughout the world. TTL's version is described in more detail here. To a limited extent, yes. I wouldn't go that far. Its just that merchants would be less concerned about how pretty their writing is...

  3. AHC: Make Bridgerton realistic. Africans intermix with European nobility.

    I would like to point out that the various dark skinned aristocrats or aristocrat adjacent people listed in this thread have an advantage that a black noble class wouldn't. Namely, that they were looked at as "one of the good ones." In other words, they dressed, talked, and acted like European...

  4. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Wax does not mean "beeswax". To quote myself: Lots of plants and animals make wax. In OTL Native Americans used all kinds of waxes before European honey bees were imported during the Columbian exchange. Tallow, insect wax, plant wax, all kinds of stuff. I doubt they'd be producing enough to...

  5. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Thanks! I very much doubt it. Similar devices were used in Europe until the 1800s. Paper was expensive back in the day.

  6. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Thanks! It already has: Supplemental: The Father of Lies

  7. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL
    Threadmarks: Chapter 42: To Use Your Left Hand

    Chapter 42: To Use Your Left Hand Since the invention of writing in or around the year 300 BCE, different groups in Minisia had begun using different variations of Mowin Syllabics in order to better express the languages they spoke. The most common variants of Mowin Syllabics during the...

  8. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Thanks! That's next on the agenda. Big. It will be the biggest empire in the history of North America so far.

  9. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL
    Threadmarks: Chapter 41: The Infinite Empire

    Chapter 41: The Infinite Empire Beneath all heaven There is no land that is not the king’s; Throughout the borders of the earth, None who are not his subjects -The Book of Odes, Classical Chinese Poetry Beginning with Mahomet, the history of the Shawnee Empire starts to become, well, more...

  10. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    No update this week. I did update the Vocabulary list here so that all non-English words or ATL phrases up to Chapter 40 are included. The schedule for the next section looks something like this: Chapter 41: The Infinite Empire (expansion of the Shawnee Empire into the Ohiyo Valley) 5/11/24...

  11. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Thanks! Maybe. This is definitely a Read and Find Out (RAFO) question.

  12. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    They've been around for a while but they are definitely increasing right now. They probably won't disappear entirely but they are going to be greatly reduced in number.

  13. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL
    Threadmarks: Chapter 40: The Land of Bede and Wool

    Chapter 40: The Land of Bede and Wool The Rosary River [Snake River] is so named because of a misconception. Some of the inhabitants of the valley, the Newe [Shoshone] people called the river the Yampapaa, after the yampa plant. The French assumed the plant they were speaking of was bede [Apios...

  14. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    ok. I guess. Sure There is a difference between taming an individual animal and domesticating a group of animals. Taming is just individual animals getting used to human contact and maybe even being trained. Domestication is breeding animals so that they are always friendly to humans and...

  15. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Um... Thanks, I guess? Scientists have attempted to domesticate moose. It hasn't worked. I don't know if they can act like small cows or oxen, but they will be used for labor eventually. Dogs have long been used in warfare. I don't think goats will be. Wapiti will definitely be.

  16. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Yet. We don't have wheels yet.

  17. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    That is definitely a "Read and Find Out" question. But I will say that every word of the phrase "National Military Academy of England" was carefully chosen. Riding on the back of an elk, especially at any kind of speed, is quite difficult. They don't have a strong enough back to keep a person...

  18. AHC: Have the USA go to war with the most countries possible throughout its existence

    I think, in general, your best bet for this is for America to be a lot more intervention happy during the Cold War or an ATL Cold War. It could invade lots of countries in Africa, Latin America, or Asia as part of "containing communism".

  19. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    Its the Wapiti Elk, not the red deer. And its a lot more difficult, as you might expect. Although most supplies are going to be transported over water, not overland.

  20. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL
    Threadmarks: Supplemental: The Book of War

    Supplemental: The Book of War Success in war cannot be bought, borrowed or stolen. Its only price is blood. – The Book of War Mahomet’s most famous act was to author the mazina'igan nandobani, often translated as “the Book of War”. At least, he is the one traditionally credited with writing...
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