Scenarios about 'technological diffusion'
The spread of technologies, innovations, and technical knowledge across societies, regions, and cultures over time. Technological diffusion has historically been influenced by trade networks, imperial expansion, migration patterns, and cultural exchange, often creating ripple effects that transform societies that adopt new technologies. Understanding these patterns helps alternate historians explore how different rates or paths of technological spread might have dramatically altered historical development and power balances.
What If Andean Textile Techniques Spread Globally?
Exploring how world textile traditions might have evolved if the sophisticated weaving methods of ancient Andean civilizations had reached other continents before European contact, potentially transforming global textile production and design.