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A Cultural Map of America with Medieval Technology (Patreon)

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2020-04-16 01:49:10
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A cultural and social map of the different development regions of what Anglo-America would look like with medieval technology. 

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Anonymous

How exactly would you define medieval technology in this context? Would it be akin to what existed around the year 1000 or would more modern technologies be preserved for practical reasons(such as bicycles, firearms, germ theory, etc). Because to me, this kind of technological status quo would probably not last more than a century or two, unless the population had dropped to such low levels that it is almost impossible to retain most modern tech(watch Isaac Arthur's video on post-apocalyptic for more details). Speaking of which, how large would the population of such a North America be?

whatifalthist

The technology is around 1200. It's a completely unrelated alternate universe thought experiment. No nuclear war or similar event has taken place. I really have no idea what the population would be. I'm guessing 60 million or so would be a good ball park. The US east of the Mississippi has a similar area and climate to habitable China, which had 100 million people in 1200, but rice allows a much higher density of population than grain, corn etc... The whole population west of the Mississippi would likely be somewhere beneath 10 million, I'm guessing.

Anonymous

The cultural areas you call irrigation, what do you mean by that. Do you mean that they would use irrigation techniques to grow agriculture, and thereby have an agricultural civilization, they otherwise would not. And how would they do that, what techniques/technologies. What crops will the seed. What are the historical comparisons. Is it the mesopotamians, the egyptians, the khwarezmid empire etc. Would the irrigation cultural region be denseley populated or sparsely populated, compared to the other cultural regions on this map.

Anonymous

What livestock would the herding culture be domesticating? Is it sheep, goats etc.

whatifalthist

The irrigation societies use irrigation agriculture and are thus like Egypt, Mesopotamia,Transoxiania etc... It would be very densely populated, as all the regions above were. The peoples of this region like the Pueblo were irrigation based and I guess these populations would grow wheat or corn. The herder region would use stock animals that don't require a lot of water or vegetable mass, such as goats, sheep etc...