Sideways Earth

This is a gateway to a "whole new world." With a point of departure at the dawn of history, this could be properly called a "parallel history" rather than an "alternate history." This is a parallel world in which the poles ended up 90 degrees from where they are in our world. The North Pole is off the coast of Africa in what we know as the Indian Ocean. The South Pole is on the equator near we call the Galapagos Islands. The earth has its same tilt, so seasons would continue as we know them, but with radically different results.

Humanity arose in what we call "Western Europe" (in this world "Southern Europe") and spread around what is the "North Atlantic" and "Arctic" Oceans - in this world, the "Mediterranean Sea," which surrounds the equatorial region of the main land masses of Eurasia and North America.