Template:Portal InfoboxDuring the prehistoric Ice Age a great bridge spanned from Siberia in the West to Alaska in the East, allowing early humans to travel to North America by land for the first and last time in history, forever shaping the history of America. After the ice age glaciers melted, the sea level rose, forever covering the bridge that allowed humans to traverse from Eurasia to North America.
This timeline explores history if the great land bridge of Beringia between the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean never sank below the waves, allowing humans to traverse between Eurasia and the Americas long before the days of Christopher Columbus, or even Leif Erikson.
Point of Divergence
The only major point of divergence is a slight change in the elevation of the Bering Strait during the breakup of Pangaea, creating a wide isthmus between the continents of Eurasia and the Americas. This isthmus would allow migration of later humans, probably resulting in Native Americans developing into slightly more modernized civilizations before being conquered by the West or East.
Throughout history, the civilizations of Asia ventured forth into the new land of the Americas, resulting in major changes in American civilization. Due to the influence of explorers and settlers from Asian civilizations, Native Americans form into modernized civilizations before the conquests of Europeans. The Bering Isthmus becomes a major strategic point in many wars waged between Eurasia and the Americas. How will this shape the world as we know it?
Major Articles
- Timeline (WIP)