What kind of otherworld do you prefer?

[Cruel2BKind]

The 6kings (I don't like to use Roman numerals, were present in the new world from at least the late 10th century. Thus, they might have had tomatoes, depending on the specific time period.

New world yes, but not central or southern america.

The cold hard fact that the elementary school classes are trying to cover with cute pageantry, is that by the time columbus&co. got the the Americas, plague from the spanish had wiped out close to 96% of the population. We didn't conquer america because of superior technology, we conquered because we were filthy and ridden with disease.

Anyway, the original population of the New World was large and fierce enough to reduce the proud norsemen to darting into the coast to steal timber before getting out as fast as they could. They hardly had time to go to modern-day mexico to get tomatoes and maize

And now we believe that Native Americans were actually first to cross the pond, too. Check it out.

http://books.google.com/books?id=hB...mericans%20shipwrecked%20in%20Holland&f=false

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Huh.

Maybe I'm just incredibly morbid or something, but I LOVE writing dystopia!

I've also written in psudo-victorian England (with mermen)

Post-columbian north america (with werewolves)

Dystopian future america (with genetically altered ladyboys)

Modern Day north america (with zombies)

Fourteenth century scandinavia

and Tolkienesque village (with tentacle demon)

Dystopias and medieval/ancient worlds are some of my faves, too.

I like the idea of different customs, laws, etc. which can often provide a way to satirize our own.

 

[R. Richard]

New world yes, but not central or southern america.

The cold hard fact that the elementary school classes are trying to cover with cute pageantry, is that by the time columbus&co. got the the Americas, plague from the spanish had wiped out close to 96% of the population. We didn't conquer america because of superior technology, we conquered because we were filthy and ridden with disease.

Anyway, the original population of the New World was large and fierce enough to reduce the proud norsemen to darting into the coast to steal timber before getting out as fast as they could. They hardly had time to go to modern-day mexico to get tomatoes and maize

And now we believe that Native Americans were actually first to cross the pond, too. Check it out.

http://books.google.com/books?id=hB...mericans%20shipwrecked%20in%20Holland&f=false

Thorfinn Karlsefni was from Iceland. He sailed to Vinland, probably in the year 1010, to settle the land previously discovered by Leif Ericsson. He had three ships and about 160 colonists. He remained in Vinland for three years. The matter is recorded in the Northman sagas, called the Hauksbok. The written evidence was disregarded by anthropologists, until the 1960s when a Northman farm was discovered and excavated at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. The evidence discovered at the Northman farm site included worked iron, which the Amerinds didn't do and ancient Northman coins.

So, two indians were shipwrecked in Holland cica 60BC. First, there was no Holland in 60BC. The area that was to become Holland was sparsely populated by germanic tribes. The Romans then arrived in 57BC. Now, lets try to reason our way through this supposed incident. For some, unknown reason, a canoe load of Amerinds decided to paddle to the East. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean and then shipwrecked on the coast of what was, much later, to become Holland. There were two survivors. The two survivors obviously didn't speak Frisian, Saxon or Frankish. However someone decided that the two survivors were savages who should be paraded around the area. (This last ignores the fact that the germanic tribes were, essentialy savages themselves.) The locals knew that the savages weren't Dutch, since they had both ears. (Actually, threre was no Holland and there was no Dutch, until much later.) Thus, they had a local artist, one Rembrandt van Rijn, do a protrait that was so accurate that, much later it was realized that the two savages were Amerinds. (Much of the delay was due to the fact that Van Rijn painted over the portrait of the savages with a work that's called 'The Night Watch.' You can determine this last for yurself, by simply using some solvent to wipe off the later poainting, to reveal the Amerind portrait underneath.)

You are/were an English major, right?

 

[Cruel2BKind]

You are/were an English major, right?

Nursing, I just took an Ancient People's class.

 

[topace]

I prefer the here and now with small twists, though I like daydreaming about being able to travel to other universes where stuff like "Star Trek", "Stargate", or "Star Wars" (to name three popular sci-fi franchises) is real and wonder how myself and my new powers fit in to that universe. It's always interesting and I always find a new twist. I might one day turn them into fan fiction stories and post them. Though my favorite daydream is what would happen if someone went back (with all our knowledge), united the two Americas into a single empire BEFORE any one from Europe arrived, and see what happens next. <- That one I just gotta turn into a story of some story sooner or later!!