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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1989519" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>I'd agree up to about 500 or so years after this &quot;apocalypse.&quot;&nbsp; After that, I've got to ask what's holding them back still?&nbsp; Thousands of years may sound like a number that you can blithely toss out in a fantasy setting, but look what a different it makes in the real world!&nbsp; A thousand years ago, the Normans had just recently conquered England, and were still struggling to figure out how to incorporate it into their own realm in Normandy.&nbsp; It would bear little (if any) resemblance to what we typically think of as &quot;Merry Olde Englande&quot;, which was only a couple of hundred years away.&nbsp; Look at the drastic change in the face of the Americas in just 400 years, for example, to see how quickly a society can move in, exploit a new land, displace the former inhabitants (not even an issue in this case, as the former inhabitants are presumably mostly all dead) and have significant evolution of its own away from its former appearance as colonies of various old world nationalities.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1989519, member: 2205"] I'd agree up to about 500 or so years after this "apocalypse." After that, I've got to ask what's holding them back still? Thousands of years may sound like a number that you can blithely toss out in a fantasy setting, but look what a different it makes in the real world! A thousand years ago, the Normans had just recently conquered England, and were still struggling to figure out how to incorporate it into their own realm in Normandy. It would bear little (if any) resemblance to what we typically think of as "Merry Olde Englande", which was only a couple of hundred years away. Look at the drastic change in the face of the Americas in just 400 years, for example, to see how quickly a society can move in, exploit a new land, displace the former inhabitants (not even an issue in this case, as the former inhabitants are presumably mostly all dead) and have significant evolution of its own away from its former appearance as colonies of various old world nationalities. [/QUOTE]

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