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A bit of lack of understanding of Arizona in your video. I am local and can add to the potential areas of medieval civilization in this area.
Phoenix Arizona was built on the Salt River near the conference of the Verde River to the east and the Gila River to the west. Large scale agriculture occurred before it was turned into urban areas.
On the fringe of the urban areas are still large irrigated farm lands. The farmers grow wheat, barley, and root crops in the winter. In the summer alfalfa is grown for a very large dairy industry. Cotton also a major crop. Citrus Fruit and pecan nuts are also important crops.
The irrigated farmland is part of the Salt River project that controls the Salt and Verde River systems. Before the Dams the valley irrigation farmland faced problems with floods but this is not a great problem. Most of the canals were built by an earlier irrigation civilization in the 1200s with simpler technology then medieval Europe.
The Gila River to the south of Phoenix irrigate Pinal County farms. And in the middle gila Safford Arizona is also a large irrigated area.
Mormons founded Safford area and Mesa area east of Phoenix as farming areas. The Mormons control much of the farm land in central and Northern Arizona.
Much of central and Arizona was founded by Mormons as farming or ranching areas. Mormons control or influence would stretch in much of Northern and Central Arizona and probably most of Nevada. They were equally good at setting up farming and ranching communities.
Much of the towns in the mountain areas in central and northern Arizona with forest and grasslands were founded as ranching, timber, mining, and farming areas by non Mormons. So mix areas of small towns along the rivers and cattle and resource harvesting towns in these areas. The Verde Valley with excellent farming and grazing areas would be main area of population north of Phoenix . These communities in this alternative history would also get along with nearby Mormon areas or sometimes be hostile.
Southern Arizona Tucson area has some farming along the San Pedro and Santa Cruz Rivers, and dryland flood irrigation farming along washes. The large grasslands, forest, and desert areas are cattle ranching. It's similar to west Texas and Southern New Mexico.
Western Arizona has extensive farmland currently but with out major Dams to control the Colorado large scale floods would limit the size of farming towns.
Successful farming in Arizona depends in this alternative world on medieval technology ability to create Dams. The Salt River project Theodore Roosevelt Dam was built with cut masonry stones. This would be possible with medieval technology as similar sized Dams existed in that time. The smaller Dams in the project could also be built too.
Large Dams like Hoover Dam on the Colorado probably were not possible with medieval technology.
Forest mountain areas would also be similar to the alpine culture of Europe in Arizona and most of the west. The ponderosa ranch and similar alpine kingdom would occur in mountain areas in the west.
The videos is good and interesting
But lack of details on the mountain west with wide variety of climate, terrain , and potential for different cultures. I can understand if you are not local It's easy to over look these areas. As a Arizona resident I have studied the flora, geography, and how the state developed. A local expert for each state would probably be needed to fill in all the details to build a medieval world in North America.
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I share many of the views here.
I consider America, and sadly most of the West, as fundamentally Universalist in their religion. And, so deeply so, that even most people who would call themselves Christian are actually Universalist, and its so engrained they don't know it. At least outwardly.
And, maybe some of this comes from Catholicism, but also humanism, the fact that something had emerged from the West which could take on the whole world presupposes it has a missionary obligation to the world, what else could come out of such an alchemy pot.
I mean, Europe could have a lot more against immigration they it does. But, the question really is; why are they allowed?? That is, I think they are incapable of escaping this abstract.
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