Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-24473740-20140515123108

Hello everyone!

I´ve recently written quite a bit in my "Abrittus" timeline, but right now, I´ve reached a point where I think other people`s good ideas and critical questions are necessary.

I need your help in shaping a specific time span (11th century AD) in a specific region (OTL Mesoamerica). (Check here.) The immediate circumstances are as follows:

In the 1020s, a Taino-Ostrogoth businessman sells the idea of vehicles with wheels to the Maya, while another sells 24 horses to the Toltecs. A couple of years later, other businessmen begin a regular trade in which they sell firearms to any solvent client on the Mesoamerican mainland, while yet other businessmen sell antibiotics and vaccines for diseases brought in from Europe (where they are already under control).

What could happen? How could the different actors on the Mesoamerican mainland develop? How would confrontations look like, who might prevail, and where would that lead?

If you`re generally interested, please check the timeline for the overarching context. (Comments on implausibilities of the main timeline are very welcome, too, but perhaps belong to another thread.) In a nutshell, the overarching context is as follows:

Rome never falls, never really Christianises, but democratises and wins the war against the Huns. European, Northern African and Southern and Eastern Asian empires engage in intense trade and exchange innovations.

At the time in question (early 11th century), Mediterranean Europe, the Middle East and China have reached a stage of technological development roughly comparable to OTL Britain around 1800, but chemical, biological and medical developments are more advanced, similar to second quarter 20th century OTL. The Americas have been discovered several centuries ago, but limited trade opportunities and the absence of political structure back in Europe which favour colonialist adventures meant that only an adventurous few have crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Contacts between America`s Natives and Europeans in the region have been mostly limited to the Caribbean islands, where a mixed society has established itself (Taino-Ostrogoth) - and from this society, the above-mentioned interaction with Mesoamerica takes off as described. 