Forum:Ideas for alt-hist scenarios

Some ideas to consider:

A mass exodus of Rapa Nui refugees flees warfare and the depletion of natural resources on Easter Island (still at peak technology) to South America. They settle amongst the Chimu (a civilization which preceded the Inca.)

Informative-

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/bolivia/first_american_empires.php

http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/easter_island/about_destin/howandwhy.asp

Timeline-

http://www.apj.co.uk/rapanui_primer/appendix_history_overview.asp

Speculation-

http://mysteriousplaces.com/Easter_Island/html/contro.html

On The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian Fagan:

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/drought-and-famine/#high_2

Another resource for ancient andean civilizations:

http://www.nazcamystery.com/nazca_culture.htm

See map halfway down and "Late Intermidiate period"

Also to consider...

Kerguelen is quite possibly the most isolated inhabitable place on Earth. It would be interesting to see how some ancient people(s) could have developed and adapted to the climate and flora there... to see what would have happpened if several early and diverse waves of humans (including, perhaps, the Khoisan, saying that they at some point had access to seaworthy transport) had settled there creating enough of a cultural and genetic diversity that they would have a better likelyhood of surviving there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoisan

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands

Same with:

the Falkland/Malvinas Islands

Iceland (had say, the Minoans escaped whatever calamity had befallen them, followed by Pompeians escaping Vesuvius and Jews escaping medieval persecution, followed by the Norse. Any of these groups could have later continued west.)

http://www.drgeorgepc.com/AtlantisDestruction.html -Minoans etc.

What if pagan groups other than the Norse had fled the rise of the church in Europe to settle in the isolated lands to the west?

What if the Neanderthals and/or some other extinct humanoids had migrated to Siberia, then North America? Or had H Erectus spread from Java etc. to Australia & New Zealand?

http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/originals/Weber-Toba/ch5_bottleneck/textr5.htm

Anticosti Island (in the St. Lawrence Seaway, Quebec) what if, even in Post-Colombian times it became a settlement which over time developed it's own culture, or a tribal refuge?

What if the Mongols, under rumor of a treasure trove ripe for plunder, crossed the Bering Strait into North America?

Feel free to edit any of my articles if it's for the sake of improving them.

74.141.161.168 21:43, January 31, 2010 (UTC)