The Great Lakes

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In history, we have often seen large inequalities in terms of land use and population distribution. For so much land, more than a billion people live on the coastline. Now that may be so for trade, but it is undeniable that coastal climates are perfectly suited for crop growing and building human settlements due to the fact the large sea helps to regulate the land temperature, making it not too hot or cold - but just perfect for humans.

Why are people not living as much inland? Due to the fact that it is harder to grow crops and they are more susceptible to the wide changes in temperatures making life hard. Now if, on the other hand, we had large lakes and inland seas, it would be much easy to live and farm the land and live a generally good life, allowing for more people to live in land and a generally wider distribution of people. The best example of this are the Great Lakes in America. Not only do they allow people to live next to a wide body of water which caters to their needs, it helps to balance out temperatures.

Now the question to be asked is, could we have had an alternate development of the human race which more such Great Lakes? How would have Siberia possibly looked with lakes in its interior helping to make life more liveable? Or Africa - would the Sahara still exist? And what about Canada? Those lakes, if they were larger, could have led to the Inuits pehaps becoming a stable society.

Well, in this endevour we dare to ask that question - and we dare to answer it. So for those few who will undertake the development of the timeline - there is a big job to do. And those reading it, I hope the experience is memorable.

Welcome to The Great Lakes.

Related Pages

• Timeline
• Map Game
• List of Nations
• Maps
• Wars

Taking Part

• Bfox - interested
• Count - interested
• Cour - intersted
• Enclave - interested.
• Fed - interested
• Feud - interested
• Roa48  - interested
• Guns - interested
• Kun - interested
• Lemming - interested
• Local - interested
• Scraw - interested
• Sky - interested
• Toby - interested
• Yank - maybe
• Goldwind1 - maybe Did you seek FP's approval?

Background Info

So, this endeavour is planned to be a timeline/map game/timeline thing. We will write up basic history, then players will play the nations until a certain while, and then we can have the rest as a timeline (or collaborative tl, depending on FP's opinion). Bfox matters too now.

The basic idea is that due to the PoD, lakes of great sizes have sprung up all over the globe (ok, that sounds pretty dramatic but really all these lakes formed in the same way any other lake would, not just overnight). Humanity goes along the way it normally would but of course adapting around said lakes to their own needs. To sum up, OTL but with big lakes and different deserts. Capisce?

What else? This game will have to be played on stardards equal to or better than PMIII. It is of paramount importance this is done. We also are willing to halt the game at times of low interest, so when interest returns we restart the game from where we left off. Whatever happens in game will most probably become canon and so players must play the game carefully. This game will also either have no moderators, only me and FP and mods or all of us as mods - because we trust the players in the above list (well, Roa [that guy's crazy - FP]).

I, FP, would also like people's posts to be made as detailed as possible, or at least make the pages for your nations detailed, not only with the whole politics, war, peace shebang, but also mention culture, science, social aspects, discoveries, geographical exploration, famous people, religion, tourism (if any) - just anything to make the pages (if they go canon) as detailed and as good to read as any.

See also: Atlantic Islands