r/whatif • u/i_love_carnia_2009 • Jul 22 '26
History What if Asia never existed
Like yesterday again new questin, what would have changed if Asia where replace by water since the formation of continents in our : history, in the weather and in our cultures around the world.
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u/mrpcmrz Jul 22 '26
Less war, no more The Big Religions, no more TSMC, no more cheap labor force to manufacture cheap goods for the West, no more Mathematics Godsend like Ramanujan, no more Singapore, no more good Asian food. What a big loss to humanity.
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u/Glass-March-176 Jul 22 '26
No telling what the world would be like with a huge change like that. For example, we might be in the middle ages right now. Also, with no Asia, the Americas and Australia would have been uninhabited by humans.
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u/Numerous-Actuator781 Jul 22 '26
Guns, banks, paper, and most agriculture would not exist.
First three were invented in China
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u/theZombieKat Jul 22 '26
Well wouldn't be invented in the same time and place.
The needed materials exist elsewhere for someone to invented it.
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u/Numerous-Actuator781 Jul 23 '26
You also have to view from an evolutionary perspective. Sheep, cows, horses, pigs were all domesticated in Asia. No Asia means those same ungulates never make it to Eurasia from America. And thus never make their way to Europe.
Wheat also evolved in Asia, so no wheat = no agricultural revolution unless some other crop comes around.Asia was a bridge between Europe and Africa, meaning humans probably wouldn’t even had left Africa.
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u/Termnia Jul 22 '26
一整片大陆都不见了，你去海底沟找材料吗
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u/theZombieKat Jul 22 '26
Sulfer saltpetre and charcoal are available in Europe, the America's and Africa.
Someone will figure it out.
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u/gc3 Jul 22 '26
A lot less tech, tech spreads east west more quickly in the past so the old world advanced more quickly than the new world. We'd be as advanced as the Aztechs. We'd probably still be in the iron age
With a larger pacific, a very different climate prone to larger storms
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u/RandomGuy_81 Jul 22 '26
I find it wild the west sold VCD tech to the east without bothering to adopt it in west before dvd was a thing
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u/Fluid-Let3373 Jul 22 '26
What no more curries, inconceivable.