Supplemental: Shawnee Scripts
First, a quick reminder on how Mowin Syllabics functions. It is written right-to-left, similar to Hebrew or Arabic. Each glyph represents either a consonant+vowel pair such as pa- or he-, a vowel such a a-, or a consonant cluster such as -nd. A diacritic is a sign...
Yup
The 536 AD event is a real thing. It was a volcanic winter that caused crop failure throughout the world. TTL's version is described in more detail here.
To a limited extent, yes.
I wouldn't go that far. Its just that merchants would be less concerned about how pretty their writing is...
I would like to point out that the various dark skinned aristocrats or aristocrat adjacent people listed in this thread have an advantage that a black noble class wouldn't. Namely, that they were looked at as "one of the good ones." In other words, they dressed, talked, and acted like European...
Wax does not mean "beeswax". To quote myself:
Lots of plants and animals make wax. In OTL Native Americans used all kinds of waxes before European honey bees were imported during the Columbian exchange. Tallow, insect wax, plant wax, all kinds of stuff. I doubt they'd be producing enough to...
Chapter 42: To Use Your Left Hand
Since the invention of writing in or around the year 300 BCE, different groups in Minisia had begun using different variations of Mowin Syllabics in order to better express the languages they spoke.
The most common variants of Mowin Syllabics during the...
Chapter 41: The Infinite Empire
Beneath all heaven
There is no land that is not the king’s;
Throughout the borders of the earth,
None who are not his subjects
-The Book of Odes, Classical Chinese Poetry
Beginning with Mahomet, the history of the Shawnee Empire starts to become, well, more...
No update this week.
I did update the Vocabulary list here so that all non-English words or ATL phrases up to Chapter 40 are included.
The schedule for the next section looks something like this:
Chapter 41: The Infinite Empire (expansion of the Shawnee Empire into the Ohiyo Valley) 5/11/24...
They've been around for a while but they are definitely increasing right now.
They probably won't disappear entirely but they are going to be greatly reduced in number.
Threadmarks: Chapter 40: The Land of Bede and Wool
Chapter 40: The Land of Bede and Wool
The Rosary River [Snake River] is so named because of a misconception. Some of the inhabitants of the valley, the Newe [Shoshone] people called the river the Yampapaa, after the yampa plant. The French assumed the plant they were speaking of was bede [Apios...
ok. I guess.
Sure
There is a difference between taming an individual animal and domesticating a group of animals. Taming is just individual animals getting used to human contact and maybe even being trained. Domestication is breeding animals so that they are always friendly to humans and...
Um... Thanks, I guess?
Scientists have attempted to domesticate moose. It hasn't worked.
I don't know if they can act like small cows or oxen, but they will be used for labor eventually.
Dogs have long been used in warfare. I don't think goats will be. Wapiti will definitely be.