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Post by triassicd on Jun 30, 2021 17:31:45 GMT
Lets set the scene its January 1st 2019, 9:00 pm and similar to what happen in the 1632 book by Eric Flint "the Ring of Fire" transports every single Native reserve, revelation, and towns with Native-American majority from Canada and the US was transported back to 1490.
Questions:
What will these time travelers do in order to survive?
How would they effect history?
I encourage you to make a timeline between day 1 to 100 years after the event and to also imagine any factions or new nations that will form years after the event.
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Post by stevep on Jul 1, 2021 10:21:55 GMT
Lets set the scene its January 1st 2019, 9:00 pm and similar to what happen in the 1632 book by Eric Flint "the Ring of Fire" transports every single Native reserve, revelation, and towns with Native-American majority from Canada and the US was transported back to 1490. Questions: What will these time travelers do in order to survive? How would they effect history? I encourage you to make a timeline between day 1 to 100 years after the event and to also imagine any factions or new nations that will form years after the event.
Well this does nothing for the rest of the Americas I fear, at least in the short term, although I suspect that few of the up-timers will shed many tears for the Aztecs. Its also going to introduce a fair number of old world disease into the region a bit earlier but also possibly the chance of medical support for some of them.
The big issue of course is how independent the up-time areas would be of the loss of contact with the rest of the modern world. How much can they maintain of modern technology and how fall back might they have to go technologically to establish a new stable society. [Still going to be a long way ahead of the rest of the world even if it has to drop back a century or two.]
For the US one big factor is that the vast majority of the area are in the west, see here. As such their a long way from the initial Spanish landings in the south or the British and French in the east so it would take some time for their arrival to have an impact. Also would groups such as the Cherokees - probably the most famous deportees - wish to move en mass back to their ancient homelands and possibly end up clashing with their ancestors.
For Canada I can't find a map but there are some pages on Wiki with info, possibly the most useful being List_of_Indian_reserves_in_Canada_by_population, which lists all reserves with a population over 500 although this dates back to 2006. A lot more of those are in the east including the two most populous so they might be able to have an impact earlier and prepare their new neighbours for the potential threat. Assuming of course they don't end up in conflict with the down-timers over issues like lifestyles, religion etc. They could however be a serious opponent to any European landings by the time they start reaching N America in numbers.
Steve
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