Post by genyodectes on Nov 14, 2021 15:14:57 GMT
So this is an idea to go in tandem with a Proto-Germanic Civilization along the Rhine, but here's the basic idea - 9000-8000 BCE, Natives along the Mississippi domesticate the Eastern Bison, along with a large variety of other smaller animals and fish and have an extensive Crop Package of the Three Sisters, Sunflowers, and other such crops (feel free to make suggestions for these other crops). Eventually, this leads to a large collective of city states along the River and the Ohio as well, leading to multiple different Kingdoms that are eventually conquered and annexed by one state that's wealthier and more powerful than the rest.
This Empire grows large enough to stretch to the Rockies and maybe the Pacific in the West and Appalachians and maybe the Atlantic to the east and the Great Lakes to the North to the Gulf in the South. This Superpower basically pulls a china and across much of the Americans has tribute be paid to them in either cash, slaves, or something else every few years along the gulf coast and carribean. By the time contact is the Old World is made in say 1500 here, this Empire has been in the Iron Age for centuries and is still the most powerful one (it reached it after centuries of warring with other kingdoms leading to advancement past Stone --> Copper --> Bronze --> Iron using them for tools instead of just artifacts like OTL).
So my question is, what is your estimate for minimum-maximum population range, with the likliest in between them for at least this Superpower (you can predict what might happen to the rest of the Americas as a result of this and make ideas for populations based on that). Another question is how would Europeans interact with such a massive state before diseases and pandemics wipe them out to almost nothing like in OTL? Would they try the conquest strategy first or stick mostly to trade and begging for outposts in the Cities of the Empire to trade?
You can also say what impact you'll think this'll have on the Native American identity post-colonization since I imagine, at least in North America, it'd give them an astounding feeling of pride.
This Empire grows large enough to stretch to the Rockies and maybe the Pacific in the West and Appalachians and maybe the Atlantic to the east and the Great Lakes to the North to the Gulf in the South. This Superpower basically pulls a china and across much of the Americans has tribute be paid to them in either cash, slaves, or something else every few years along the gulf coast and carribean. By the time contact is the Old World is made in say 1500 here, this Empire has been in the Iron Age for centuries and is still the most powerful one (it reached it after centuries of warring with other kingdoms leading to advancement past Stone --> Copper --> Bronze --> Iron using them for tools instead of just artifacts like OTL).
So my question is, what is your estimate for minimum-maximum population range, with the likliest in between them for at least this Superpower (you can predict what might happen to the rest of the Americas as a result of this and make ideas for populations based on that). Another question is how would Europeans interact with such a massive state before diseases and pandemics wipe them out to almost nothing like in OTL? Would they try the conquest strategy first or stick mostly to trade and begging for outposts in the Cities of the Empire to trade?
You can also say what impact you'll think this'll have on the Native American identity post-colonization since I imagine, at least in North America, it'd give them an astounding feeling of pride.