I’m looking for specific and non obvious answers. Give me something visceral, rid the world of a figure or nation you hate. Preserve a culture you adore. It doesn’t have to make sense either, you are basically god here.

What I mean is don’t just say you’d get rid of imperialism or colonialism bc no shit

Personally I would make it so that the Americas are never discovered by the old world and every “would be” conquistador (especially cortez and pizarro) explodes.

  • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Or maybe teach the Europeans germ theory and basic hygiene before 1492.

    The British were giving out smallpox blankets well before germ theory. I don’t think a more precise understanding of the mechanism of contagious disease transmission would have helped.

    “Out of our regard to them … we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.” —An eyewitness, quoted in Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–81, 2001