PlainTalkBadManners<p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/BookIdeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BookIdeas</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/SpeculativeFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpeculativeFiction</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/SomeoneNotMeNeedsToWriteThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SomeoneNotMeNeedsToWriteThis</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/MaybeAnAnthropologistNeedsToWriteThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MaybeAnAnthropologistNeedsToWriteThis</span></a></p><p>What would the alternative history of the world be like, if the Europeans from 1492 onwards, treated the people they encountered in the Americas, Asia, the African continent and Australasia on their naval expeditions as humans they respected, humans they could exchange culture, technology and knowledge with?<br />Would we have capitalism? Would we live in harmony with the natural world? <a href="https://me.dm/tags/synergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>synergy</span></a></p>