Unironically, furgonomics in the worldbuilding of my furry visual novel indirectly caused Israel (and other Levantine countries) to become a historical superpower and an ally to Spain/Portugal, and a kickstarter of the industrial revolution. AnthroSwim is not involved. I am a bit lost.
Furry visual novel is called "Manifesto Symphonia", a fvn for the itch.io May Wolf 2026 furry visual novel jam. In turn, this game is the manifesto of my artistical movement called "The Symphony".
This is so random I had to post it here. I am not making this up. Let me explain this briefly.
In my world, humans are derived from canidae. They look like lemur-dog anthros. These people, let's call them "wolfmen", first appeared in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa instead of central/subsaharan Africa like irl humans. They can go through a second puberty. In their second puberty, they basically transform into a werewolf, partially or totally. As a result, they have a lot of folklore revolving around the transformation and canids. This includes the idea of woods feeling like one's second home, which is present in many cultures of my world. Simultaneously, people who live in less forest-like areas often have a tendency to become depressed or even commit suicide due to a deep feeling of dettachment. This is mostly cultural/psychological, not a biological thing. Also, wolfmen are immunologically more delicate than real life humans and fall victim to hot-humid and very cold climate diseases easily, so the great Asian empires were not as big as they were in real life. Taking this into consideration, I wrote forest cultures as generally more difficult to invade due to feeling more in their element. I wrote all this when designing the pre-history of my world, so I could later on figure out how to write the international history of it.
This is how we get to the current state of things of my world. As a byproduct of forest peoples being "harder to invade", the Roman Empire never got as much control of Europe in general as it did in real life. As a result, it was a less powerful empire and they couldn't get much control of the Levantine region, which was mostly unbothered by Egyptians because they were not very powerful either due to plains depression and diseases. Israel-Palestine were less threatened by external superpowers, so they had the perfect scenario to flourish. Judaism became a bit more widespread than in real life, posing a formidable competitor to Christian Churches and branches of Islam. There were more religiously Jewish people and branches of Judaism were bigger. The Jewish were not as systematically oppressed in pre-medieval and medieval ages as they were in real life. Israel-Palestine and the Levant in general greatly contributed to science and indirectly caused an earlier birth of universities. They were allies with Spain. Capitalism developed earlier but still came to a halt until the Industrial Revolution happened.
The great discovery of America by the Old Worldhappened in the 17th-18th century. A great part of Nordic peoples relocated into America due to demographical collapse (diseases), finding America by accident, but this was not comparable to Columbus finding America. Instead, it was found by an expedition of Levant and Spain people after years of intense study of avant-garde geographical theories pointing out to a new undiscovered continent.
Thing is, I don't want my lore to diverge too much from real life lore. Any advice on how to handle the contact of the Old World with America and the whole history from 18th century to 21st century?