Or, The New World is discovered peppered with descendants of Pre-Columbian Old World colonists.
There are a lot of Pre-Columbian WI's out there so I wanted to combine them all into something which makes the Americas look substantially but not entirely different.
The point of this is to retain the Amerindian and Mesoamerican cultures of OTL (within the parameters allowable by butterflies) but to allow every possible Pre-Columbian contact to occur and have the newcomers co-exist with and then assimilate into the societies they come into contact with, leaving an indelible cultural, genetic, technological mark on that society. The assumption here is that disease is significantly less a factor than during the European conquest, but obviously, it will still be a factor.
Also, as another note, all colonizations here will have lost contact with their respective home nations at some point, further making assimilation by natives a likelihood.
For example:
1. A greater Norse/Viking presence that becomes friendly with and then mostly assimilated into the society and culture of the Thule. Eventually some of the descendants of this contact gradually move south, still retaining a substantial amount of Viking culture, blood, and tech in the native population.
2. As was just posted here recently by President Lenin, Abu Bakr II landing with a large force of Mali in 1311 and setting up what at first was a colony, then became a flourishing hybrid settlement which quickly grows into a thriving Muslim Afro-Amazonian culture which eventually makes successful contact with the fledgling Incas downriver.
3. Small Chinese settlements occur and have some isolated success in the New World, from Hui Shen in California before 500 CE, to Zheng He in 1421. The earlier, more northern Chinese settlements are assimilated rather quickly into hunter-gatherer tribes, but they have profound cultural, religious, and technological effects on the Western tribes containing their descendants. Zheng He's colony is slower to become assimilated into the Mexicas, but their eventual union results in Mexican hegemony in the area, assimilating competing tribes with similar force.
If you know of any more, please list them!
What are the effects of every possible slightly different (and eerily familiar) American culture being met by the Europeans during their conquest?
There are a lot of Pre-Columbian WI's out there so I wanted to combine them all into something which makes the Americas look substantially but not entirely different.
The point of this is to retain the Amerindian and Mesoamerican cultures of OTL (within the parameters allowable by butterflies) but to allow every possible Pre-Columbian contact to occur and have the newcomers co-exist with and then assimilate into the societies they come into contact with, leaving an indelible cultural, genetic, technological mark on that society. The assumption here is that disease is significantly less a factor than during the European conquest, but obviously, it will still be a factor.
Also, as another note, all colonizations here will have lost contact with their respective home nations at some point, further making assimilation by natives a likelihood.
For example:
1. A greater Norse/Viking presence that becomes friendly with and then mostly assimilated into the society and culture of the Thule. Eventually some of the descendants of this contact gradually move south, still retaining a substantial amount of Viking culture, blood, and tech in the native population.
2. As was just posted here recently by President Lenin, Abu Bakr II landing with a large force of Mali in 1311 and setting up what at first was a colony, then became a flourishing hybrid settlement which quickly grows into a thriving Muslim Afro-Amazonian culture which eventually makes successful contact with the fledgling Incas downriver.
3. Small Chinese settlements occur and have some isolated success in the New World, from Hui Shen in California before 500 CE, to Zheng He in 1421. The earlier, more northern Chinese settlements are assimilated rather quickly into hunter-gatherer tribes, but they have profound cultural, religious, and technological effects on the Western tribes containing their descendants. Zheng He's colony is slower to become assimilated into the Mexicas, but their eventual union results in Mexican hegemony in the area, assimilating competing tribes with similar force.
If you know of any more, please list them!
What are the effects of every possible slightly different (and eerily familiar) American culture being met by the Europeans during their conquest?
