Re: Alternative histories and paralele universes

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Kristian Jensen wrote:
> > You could also have some kind of
> > extinction of burden animals occur in the old world - giving
> > Americans the advantage they never had in our Universe.
>
> Or even spare the burden animals in thew New World.  But there's anothe=
r
> advantage that the Old World had over the New World - it's more
> horizontal, so to speak.  The Americas, especially Mesoamerica, are
> north-south oriented, so that the spread of crops was impeded, since it=
> takes longer for crops to be adapted to colder/warmer environments.
Well.  Mesoamerica is south-north oriented but is all tropical and mounta=
inous.
Then you can find almost the same climate in Mexico or in Colombia or in =
Peru.
But there is a point, if the domesticated burden animal were the bison, i=
t would
have not been easily adapted to the tropics...? if it was the llama, it w=
ouldn't
have reach Central america or Mexico before trade would have developed la=
rge
boats.

Would be nice to know which posible burden animals were hunted extint...
mamuts?

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