Brithenig/Aelyan North America (was: Re: Languages in theBrithenig universe)

Matt Pearson wrote:

> One major difference between the Europe of *there* and the Europe of *here*,
> from what I've been able to gather by lurking on this thread, is that there
> were more (and smaller) nation-states there.  So perhaps colonisation happened
> on a smaller scale, and in a more chaotic fashion, *there* than *here*?
Just so.  Joint action between colonies of different nations was a more
sporadic affair.

> But even if that were the case, that doesn't explain everything.  How, for
> example, did the Europeans prevent the introduction of new diseases from
> exterminating large numbers of indigenous people?  Or, if there was indeed
> such extermination *there*, how did the indigenous peoples recover from
> it sufficiently to establish autonomous states?
The Black Death exterminated 35%+ of the European population, but no countries
were destroyed as a result.

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