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  1. Without Boer settlement, could the Bantu have reached the Cape?

    The only way I see the Bantu adapting to the region's climate is by abandoning farming entirely (a difficult proposition) and taking up pastoralism. Thing is, the Cape Khoisan already had pastoralism (in fact, pre-colonization they regularly provisioned European ships with livestock IIRC)...

  2. Names for a Danish empire/greater Denmark?

    North Sea Empire, Danelaw, the [insert dynasty here] Empire, Scandinavia (if the conquest does not include parts of England and/or Germany and is limited to just the Scandinavian peninsula), Danskjavelheim?

  3. Challenge: With a POD after 1750, Jewish settlers and natives in the Pacific Northwest create many small and medium businesses based on fisheries

    While the communities were somewhat suspicious of each other, they did have some cultural interchange and cooperation in the alt-history mystery The Yiddish Policeman's Union where the state of Alaska was turned into a territory for Jewish refugees. Perhaps in an alternate version of that...

  4. WI: Elon Musk remains in South Africa

    I don't see why he wouldn't have become successful in South Africa, although he probably would not have been able to gather the venture capital that he did in the US to launch himself to billionairehood. Still, Elon Musk is a heck of a salesman and has a wealthy background that could help...

  5. Californie- French California

    A little bit of OTL Arizona is cotton-suitable, but I think the push west by slavocrat raiders is based more on wishful thinking than a sober analysis of the land's potential.

  6. What would a "Modernized" Greco-Roman religion look like?

    I agree-Catholic Churches still portray the Archangel Michael using a sword or a spear, I don't see why it would be any different for a modernized polytheist religion. Although walking into a cathedral and seeing the Archangel strapped with a .45 might not be out of place in some parts of the...

  7. What if the americans didn't open up Japan, then in the late 1880s, A european empire tried to conquer it.

    European empire probably fails in outright conquest. Japan is in the Eurasian 'disease belt', has a lot of rugged terrain guerillas can retreat to but also has a high population, and rival European empires are probably going to try to sabotage the would be conqueror. As a result, whoever tries...

  8. What if Napoleon tried to conquer the Barbary states instead of Egypt?

    Napoleon becomes interested in alternate history, and writes his first timeline on "what if Hannibal defeated Rome"?

  9. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    I like that the manual focuses on supplies. I do wonder how different the question of supplies is when you have red deer as your traction animal, as opposed to oxen or mules.

  10. Spanish conquest of the Pampas

    Maybe in a scenario where the conquest of Mexico and Peru fails? Then we have would-be conquistadors potentially settling this region instead, and as a land-rich and slave-poor colony, the Pampas would see agricultural and ranching development from the initial conquistadors that draw in more...

  11. Californie- French California

    'Gould eel' in the French pronunciation of the English words, maybe later turned into "Gouldille" in a fit of Francofication.

  12. Opium trade with no Qing Dynasty

    You don't even need to go as far as putting in a new dynasty-there were advocates for opium legalization in the Qing dynasty. There are alternative ways to deal with the trade imbalance than banning the opium trade. I couldn't find the source, but IIRC one official suggested that the Qing...

  13. What if the pilgrims weren't saved by Squanto and the Wampanoag tribe?

    I think New England is indeed butterflied away. Without the accidental success of the Plymouth colony, there isn't much in that region to have the English come back. There's probably still demand for a 'Puritan' colony in the New World that's removed from the immoral degenerates (from the...

  14. Plausibility Check-Llamas introduced to Mesoamerica

    Looking at the case in the '80's where a group of llamas were stranded outside of Aruba (the link is in my OP), it is possible to stabilize their numbers for over a month in a tropical climate as long as they are not being made to work as pack animals or otherwise exerted beyond reaching food...

  15. Plausibility Check-Llamas introduced to Mesoamerica

    That's a temperate rainforest, so not quite comparable heatwise-though the fact that llamas are running feral in that region does show that they are adaptable to habitats outside of their Andean homeland, and can tolerate humid climates when the temperatures are low enough.

  16. Plausibility Check-Llamas introduced to Mesoamerica

    Llamas could conceivably spread into the northern Andes. Their use as pack animals to carry trade goods and supplies for military expeditions over the highest peaks could contribute to greater political centralization in the area. The Guatemalan highlands IOTL saw the development of some of...

  17. Plausibility Check-Llamas introduced to Mesoamerica

    This is a well thought out reply. Sadly, I do think that a coastal tropical breed as you are describing isn't biologically possible with the llama we know and love IOTL. I think there's maybe some disconnect on what I and other posters talk about when we talk about "tropical coastal" llamas...

  18. The Good Berry: A Wild Rice Domestication TL

    I get your frustration with AI art, I really do-the heavily bearded Native Americans in the media for this timeline, among other things, throw me off. But, I think you need to keep in mind the only realistic budget alternative-randomly googling images that may or may not be linkable within a...

  19. Plausibility Check-Llamas introduced to Mesoamerica

    Interestingly enough, you can have a trade in tin without smelting it for bronze-cassiterite (tin ore) is a lovely dark gem. But as I wrote, jade is a big one-Guatemala has deposits of jade, and IIRC it wasn't available in the Andes so that's a big one. Vanilla is also limited in range to...

  20. Plausibility Check-Llamas introduced to Mesoamerica

    I do think this sets the llama in this scenario apart from the failed European attempts to import them IOTL, and overcomes the objection of "the Chinese emperors didn't breed giraffes". There is a niche that it fills. We saw this in Native American cultures IOTL with sheep, that were adopted...
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