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[Virex]

I think the vikings used to have a Northern-Canadian Colony of Hundred, who weren't asses to the local natives.

They called them "skraelings," Viking first contact with them involved killing eight of them and sparked a war between the natives and the vikings.

I always heard that the whole mess was started by a misunderstanding. The Vikings, seeking to trade primarily, offered cheese and beer as a gift. The locals accepted, but unfortunately, most of them were lactose-intolerant, meaning they quickly contracted a severe case of diarrhea. They, predictably, concluded that the Vikings were trying to poison them and reacted in kind.

[Bdthemag]

AW YEAH, ALTERNATIVE HISTORY.

I fucking love AH, and currently I've been quite interested in the time line and story presented in the Darkest Hour mod Kaiserreich. Something about a WW2 focused around Syndicalists vs. Imperialists seems really fucking awesome to me.

[Loud Whispers]

I always heard that the whole mess was started by a misunderstanding.

"[Thorvald] then said: "Here it is beautiful, and here would I like to raise my dwelling." Then went they to the ship, and saw upon the sands within the promontory three elevations, and went thither, and saw there three skin boats (canoes), and three men under each. Then divided they their people, and caught them all, except one, who got away with his boat. They killed the other eight, and then went back to the cape, and looked round them, and saw some heights inside of the firth, and supposed that these were dwellings."

Vikings viking.

[Virex]

I always heard that the whole mess was started by a misunderstanding.

"[Thorvald] then said: "Here it is beautiful, and here would I like to raise my dwelling." Then went they to the ship, and saw upon the sands within the promontory three elevations, and went thither, and saw there three skin boats (canoes), and three men under each. Then divided they their people, and caught them all, except one, who got away with his boat. They killed the other eight, and then went back to the cape, and looked round them, and saw some heights inside of the firth, and supposed that these were dwellings."

Vikings viking.

Oh, must've been a different situation then. I distinctly remember hearing a story about Vikings getting into trouble for offering cheese to lactose-intolerant locals.

[Xantalos]

Well, time to watch.

[Hubris Incalculable]

From a Linguistic point of view, what if the Vínland Colony had survived to the present? What would Vínlandic sound like? Would it be more or less conservative than Icelandic?

[Loud Whispers]

Could the native Americans have survived as a nation colonialist expansion had the vikings and natives been able to co-habitate?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Not likely. Smallpox killed more Native Americans than the settlers ever could have, and it was out of anyone's control. The French colonies were mostly at peace with the Native Americans, and it didn't do much in the end. The numerical and technological gap was quite simply too great.

[Virex]

Forget smallpox, if the Vinland settlement would've kept contact with mainland Europe, sooner or later it would've been struck with the bubonic plague...

[Boea]

So, how about that guy, China, who made a mega fleet. And how the next emperor burned it to cinders, with the shipwrights, when the first one wasn't able to launch it from dying.

[Skyrunner]

What if the Mongols were able to invade Japan? O.o It was sheer luck they failed.

[Mech#4]

That happened twice didn't it? Or was the second time due to something else happening other then a storm?

[Skyrunner]

Yes, they got thwarted every time. XD

[Loud Whispers]

What if the Mongols were able to invade Japan? O.o It was sheer luck they failed.

Eh, more like Korean levies with Mongolian support. They didn't really mind. I'm not sure if all that much would have changed really, depending on if they razed Japan or subjugated it. I imagine something along the lines of the Empire of Korea later on, and a North/South Japan after the pacific campaign!

[Guardian G.I.]

What would happen if the purchase of Alaska by the US didn't take place, and Alaska remained a part of Russia?