User blog comment:Wijata Mateusz/Imagine a world without the Americas/@comment-257949-20120724091103/@comment-4206034-20120724142503

Why does everybody forget India, lol?! This climate change would give Indians a huge monopoly on their surrounding areas. Plus, due to the very war-like nature of the early Indian nations and Empires, and without European interference, they would be forced to venture out in boats. Once the area becomes united under 4 or 5 large kingdoms (a UK in India maybe?), they would be able to trade with other nations and use the developed technology to wage wars and things.

Now, taking into account the more rainfall, the Saudi Arabia and North Africa regions, I would expect, would become much, much greener. This would mean that if Islam arose, it would not spread, as the population would not need to move around.

However, with no Americas, sea levels would be lower, so that could even out the high tides maybe. But I still do think some form of a landmass would still exist in the Pacific. Maybe a Zealandia around 3/4 the size of Australia east of Oceania and north of OTL NZ. Maybe a much larger Hawaii, same with the Caribbean. But the fact remains that they Ocean would still be pretty vast!!