Hello, everyone! I hope you’re having a wonderful day. A project I’ve been working on recently, and hope to make a magnum opus of sorts, is this setting. I was initially inspired by a YouTube video covering the climate implications of the globe show above; one where Earth’s surface is shifted 90 degrees, so that what was once North is now West, with what was once East being the new North. 

A key thing I’ve been struggling with, however, is the immediate impact on human evolution and development. For the sake of the project, I’m going to say that depsite such a massive change Human life will still develop where they first did in our world. And given the fact that the Mediterranean was the least impacted, I imagine the earliest civilizations would form in the same or at least similar places. The Indus Valley and Mesopotamian civilizations would likely have equivalents. But from there, I get stuck. Such a massive geological shift creates so many differences that I’m not sure where to go from there.

Any ideas, opinions, or potential resources would be deeply appreciated. My field of study is in Anthropology, so I’m not totally in the dark regarding human development, but my focus is religion. Other aspects of human society and how they form are a bit out of my depth.

Immediate Implications on Human Development: Rotated Earth