For argument's sake, let us say there was no North or South America... it was all one big ocean until Asia.
How do you think history would be different?
The first thing people might say is that the Nazi's would have won- but really- there probably wouldn't have been Nazis to begin with. The Nazi party rose out of the humiliation and desperation of Germany losing the first world war- and that only happened because of the US Involvement... The allies may have prevailed in WWI without the USA, but the treaty would have been different. Either Germany would have had better negotiating power or they might have been completely wiped out- either way the situation likely would lead to the Nazi rise of power.
But even before the 1900's... how would the 1600s and 1700s been different?
Honestly- thinking about it- I think the people who started the early colonies would have left Europe anyway. They couldn't live under the situations there. If they couldn't come to America I suspect they would have started colonizing sub-Sahara Africa. Instead of the United States of America we may have had the United States of Africa. There would still be slavery, there would still be reservations for indigenous people. There would be some sort of Geroge Washington figure, a revolutionary war- and an independent county blessed with natural resources Europe could only dream of.
Thoughts?
How do you think history would be different?
The first thing people might say is that the Nazi's would have won- but really- there probably wouldn't have been Nazis to begin with. The Nazi party rose out of the humiliation and desperation of Germany losing the first world war- and that only happened because of the US Involvement... The allies may have prevailed in WWI without the USA, but the treaty would have been different. Either Germany would have had better negotiating power or they might have been completely wiped out- either way the situation likely would lead to the Nazi rise of power.
But even before the 1900's... how would the 1600s and 1700s been different?
Honestly- thinking about it- I think the people who started the early colonies would have left Europe anyway. They couldn't live under the situations there. If they couldn't come to America I suspect they would have started colonizing sub-Sahara Africa. Instead of the United States of America we may have had the United States of Africa. There would still be slavery, there would still be reservations for indigenous people. There would be some sort of Geroge Washington figure, a revolutionary war- and an independent county blessed with natural resources Europe could only dream of.
Thoughts?