::Out-of-Character Forum::

[Rednal]

And I... live in territories not yet discovered? =D  

[Arena Emperor]

No, just the other side of the country from the city/state of New Ivaline. 8D
I'd tell you what that is, but I don't have a name for it, yet. XD

 

[Rednal]

Of course it has a name. It's "Big Water Meets The Land Of The People". In... the local dialect. ^^  

[Arena Emperor]

There's so many things I'm not sure about with what you just said...but that's not exactly unusual.
If Cristobel Columbo did not name the New World after Amerigo Vespucci, though, what name might it have received? ...That is the question. v.v

 

[Rednal]

Well... who was the first one to reach the area, who did they serve, and was there any important figure at their court that naming a continent after would've gone over well with? =D Say, if some king wanted to make his wife happy (or whatever).

Unless the whole old world was burning or something, in which case people usually name it after themselves...  

[Arena Emperor]

Those are the questions I am yet to answer. But I will...
All questions are answered in time...>.>

...Except the ones with no answers. Then I just make them up...

 

[Rednal]

That's pretty much what I do, too, so... XD  

[Arena Emperor]

It's what the pros do.
The cool ones, anyway.

 

[Rednal]

And, if you're REALLY good, it ends up being more awesome than you expected.

...

*Has had the Dr. Horrible songs playing in his head*

I really should do a Shadow Soji version of those...  

[Rednal]

Now, how to respond to Faust...? ^^  

[Zorc James]

ZOMBIES, EVERYWHERE!
*ish the zombie fan*  

[Great Ryoman!]

Hm...well how about we start by compiling facts about who discovered each area of America first. Here, I'll make a list...

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First, you have the fall of Constantinople in 1453. That started the Age of Exploration, because the Ottomans split Europe and Asia in half, refusing to allow anyone from one side to enter the other.

Then there was Columbus in the 1490s, who discovered America.

In the Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494, the Pope declared all of America Spain's, but they and Portugal agreed to split it down the middle. So those two thought they'd own everything. Haha! Historally BAD ideas. xD

After that, you have Amerigo, who wrote about the new continent, and started the idea of a New World. His writing really inspired the Age of Exploration, and that's why we name it after hi. Circa 1500s.

In 1513 Vasco Balboa crossed Panoma and discovered the Pacific Ocean, which he named the South Sea.

In 1524, defying the claim Spain and Portugal had on America, the French king sent Giovanni Verrazzano, the first guy to explore the North American continent (from the Georgia area all the way up to Newfoundland).

Jacques Cartier, a sailor of Verrazzano's, went inland, and mapped/discovered most of the Eastern side of the continent. He also claimed and named Canada. (Canada is apparently Iroquois, and he named it in honor of them, in their language).

Andres Urdaneta was the first guy to find California, in the 1560s, and established the first route across the Pacific ever. (For Spain, of course.)

Francisco Ulloa explored the west coast, and was the first to call California California.

Then Francis Drake fiiiinally sailed over, and started laying serious claims for England in the 1570s. Originally, all their territory was called New Albion (Aka New England).

Now you just have to ask yourself, "how would our changing history affect THESE guys? Would some of this not happen? Would some of this happen MORE?".

 

[Great Ryoman!]

Although I believe our big incident that changes everything is set about 200 years before the story, and the story is in the 1900s, so that'd be the 1700s...

That doesn't really affect any of those times.

The only war I can think of off the top of my head during that 1700s time is the French and Indian War (Well the war between France and England that encompassed it), and add the end of the century the Revolutionary War. >.>  

[Zorc James]

So, Red, You gonna post with Ruru?