If the Ice Age never ended

 



What if it were the Last Glacial Maximum lasted another 26 thousand years? The world would be a colder place, yes, but more importantly it would be a more climatically extreme place. Travelling north and west through an Arabian desert about as dry and hot as in our timeline, you’d pass through savanna in Anatolia, a bit of forest steppe, and then BAM, you’re on the tundra.


It could be that civilization in Mesopotamia and India might develop along recognizable lines in this world, but Phonetician and Egyptian explorers would have found nothing north of their north-Mediterranean outposts but frozen wastes populated by increasingly monstrous denizens.


 


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Published on April 07, 2016 14:00
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