Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-5018798-20130213102011/@comment-32656-20130213115855

ASB from the getgo. The idea that no one would figure it out is quite literally impossible.

No cannons, castles stay.

Steam would eventually come into use, first in mines.

Explosives - or at least the concept - have existed since long before gunpowder.

Guns had very little to do with colonialism. Disease was the problem. Very few changes to that overall picture, aside from the obvious ones in Europe effecting where/how/when colonialism starts. About the only major thing I can think of is that Cortex would get his butt handed to him - though others would try and succeed where he failed.

No French Italy or English France.

What amounted to ballista tanks had already been thought of a couple of times. No idea what the last bit means.