What If

My husband and I love brainstorming stuff like this. Nifty idea for an alternate world setting. The basic premise is that the Oceans of the world are too dangerous to travel be it due to Mosasaur, Megaladon, Midgard Serpent, Kraken, Cthulhu... Whatever. If you venture out on the high seas, something’s going to get you. The only reliable paths open to human expansion has been via land or air. So this would mean that the colonization of the continents would only happen if there was a land bridge or the expanding nation developed air travel. Navel power houses like England, Spain or the Norse would not have the clout they did in our world and whoever invented air travel first would rule the skies. Rather cool set up for a steampunk-esque universe.