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Old 02-26-2021, 08:35 PM   #5411
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Try this one...

Most of the alternate Earth's Homeline can get to are geographically identical to Homeline and Centrum. But this Q6 low Mana parallel is different. It has an island the size of Iceland about three hundred miles west of the Strait of Gibralter. Because of the maritime environment, this island is wetter and more fertile than Spain.

The first people to find this island were the Phonecinans. The Greeks, who were colonizing the Western Mediterranian at the time and soon placed colonies on the island. Greek culture and language became dominant on the island. This is why the name Lipara (one of the Hesperides the nymphs of the sunset) became the common name of the island.

Rome, not a naval power, chose to ignore Lipara as long as they stayed out of Rome's way. The Liparans were glad to do this.

The Liparans were somewhat more likely to apply technology to practical problems than most Greeks. This is thought to be because they had fewer slaves than most classical societies. But why they had fewer slaves isn't understood. One of their inventions was a form of paper, which they independently invented more than a century and a half after the Chinese.

Because of both paper and the isolation of Lipara from the European continent, a far larger portion of Greek literature and knowledge survives on this parallel than most. Trade with the Arabs brought in a great number of Arab literary works (the Arabs tried three times to conquer Lipara, bad weather, and poor planning ruined all of these with high loss of life). Diplomatic links with Byzantium brought in large amounts of Byzantine literature. As the monasteries and

more later.
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