Talk:Blank Slate

=GENERAL DISCUSSION=

Early Ideas
Before any proposals are made, I think it would be advantageous to flesh out all of the immediate implications of this timeline. Obviously the main result is that Amerindians don't settle the New World, but there are a number of other implications that can be drawn as a result. What ideas do you all foresee occurring in this ATL?
 * Polynesians (who were in the Americans around 500 to 700 AD ) would be able to settle along the coasts of South America.
 * Vikings (who were in the Americas around 1000 AD) would be able to settle down along the coasts of Northeast America.
 * Many species of megafauna, including perhaps a variant of the woolly mammoth and sabertooth tiger would remain in  the New World.
 * Colonization would be much more difficult, without Indians to trade with and without the lands that they had already cleared out.
 * Alternate migration routes of some other peoples, including perhaps the Indo-Europeans, who were in the area at the time.

=PROPOSALS=