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A map showing human migrations of the Upper Paleolithic.
Welcome to the Cradles of Great Life alternate history project. The Earth in the 187709-K universe share close ties with our universe. The sand walked by paleolithic humans was the same until a different route was took. Of course, all true "humans" began in Eastern Africa around Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda and Burundi as those are we have found the earliest fossils of Homo Sapiens, the same species as you and me. This is a Single PoD timeline meaning it only has one point were this timeline diverges and evolves seperate from ours. The PoD is quite simple, humans take different paths when spreading across the world; having languages, culture and ethnic groups differ wildly from our timeline. The first different path is known in the 187709-K universe as the Abare Path and sees humans heading up the Horn of Africa and splitting into 3 groups in what is known as the Bedara Diversion. The three new paths followed wildly different routes. The first new path (The "Bander" Path) appeared when a group of the people headed west through Sub-Saharan Africa and up to Algeria, just east of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and settling in the Mediterranian coast and predominantly hunting rather than gathering food. The second path in the diversion was the "Pabran" path and follows a set of people who headed southwest through the Congo Jungle and then settled on the famous Gold Coast. The third and final path of the Bedara Diversion was the "Sandan" path which saw people heading up the nile and doing a secondary diversion (the "Ankan" Diversion) in which some people stayed at the nile while others headed into Arabia and the spread even more but still not heading past the Middle East. The second path aside from the Abare Path is the Tandy's Path which saw a group heading into the aformentioned Congo Jungle and splitting in what is called the Daran Diversion where a group (the Kaled Path) headed south into Southern Africa and a group (the Tolendy's Path) headed west into Gabon, Angola and parts of Western Zambia. These were the main paths and diversions that happened in the early parts of the Upper Paleolithic but even more divisions and paths happened during the middle parts that quite simple to explain with the early paths but get even more complicated as time goes on. A simplified version is that the people in the Middle east from the Ankan Diversion began heading up through to the Caucuses while another group headed into the Balkans through Turkey and gradually spread around Europe until they crossed the Ural mountains, spread across Asia and settled all across the mainland. The end of the Upper Paleolithic saw the people settling in more to their new homes and developing cultures and then in the Neolithic: agriculture was invented and people spread into the Americas, the Malay Archipelago and into Madagascar and other Indian-Oceanic islands as well as pacific islands.