If James V dies childless the next Scottish monarch won’t be related to the Tudors.To prevent the union of Scotland and England, is there a better way than just stopping James VI of Scotland from becoming James I of England? Like, would it be more effective to go back further so that an alternate Scottish monarch is not so closely related as to be in a position to bring about personal union?
Might be my inner building nerd speaking, but I would kill to see an Appalachian-Orthodox take on architecture. Can't stop thinking about it now.The Ethnicity of the region doesn't change too much from the Scots-Irish of OTL, but by the time of the American Civil War, all of the core of Appalachia from Georgia to Virginia is Eastern Orthodox and ended up becoming an Autocephalous Orthodox Church in its own right.
What does that look like for American Culture and history and what does it do for Appalachia?
This probably depends on how or why the Belgian revolution does not occur.How would the Belgian Revolution not happening affect the Revolutions of 1848?
Earlier ascendancy of William II resulting in reforms?This probably depends on how or why the Belgian revolution does not occur.
Very low without a Mississippian seafaring wank. There seems to be surprising obstacles between Cuba and southern Florida, hence the very different flora and fauna found there. This extended to human cultures, since cultures in southern Florida rarely contacted those in Cuba and are archaeologically distinct from a very early time period and in later time periods even moreso. For instance, the Taino of Cuba were (mostly) cassava farmers, while the Indians of southern Florida were sedentary hunter-gatherers who gathered vast quantities of shellfish. There was not much contact between the two groups, probably because Florida didn't have much to offer that the Taino couldn't get elsewhere that didn't require a journey across so much hurricane-prone open water.What is the plausibility that the (proto-)Muskogean-speaking clans would settle Cuba (optional: southern Florida and Bahamas)?
I was really curious about that specific area(s) west of the Mississippi.In any case, the Muskogean peoples originated somewhere inland west of the Mississippi River. It seems clear by the number of language isolates/small language families around the Gulf Coast (like all Florida native languages beside ones that arrived later like the Mississippian era Appalachee or colonial era Seminole) or inland (the Yuchi, probably spoken over a far greater area) that Muskogean peoples are a relatively recent arrival. It's been a while since I checked the literature, but it is very much linked to the spread of Mississippian culture and large migration events that occurred around the time Cahokia was abandoned (a major drought in the 13th century) and the historically attested mass migrations and violence of the 16th/17th centuries (drought and onset of the colonial era). So that's another huge hurdle for that.
It's been a while since I checked the literature on it but it was probably somewhere in the Ozarks in southern Missouri or Arkansas, or maybe a little further west on the eastern edge of the Great Plains (which would be ironic given the US government deported the majority of their distant descendants there). Likely it was not far from the later site of Cahokia, but wasn't too far west either since Muskogean languages have elements in common with other indigenous languages of the Southeast (there exists a coherent Southeastern language area/sprachbund) and to a much lesser/theoretical degree, the Gulf Coast as far south as Veracruz in Mexico. The latter is probably related to how maize cultivation arrived in the region.I was really curious about that specific area(s) west of the Mississippi.