What If There Was A Continent In the Pacific?

I think the Polynesians, Incas, and Aztecs having potential access to horses, cows, steel, gunpower, artillery, and arquebuses through trade with East Asia would change colonization quite drastically. Plus the expaded trade could lead to the Ming dynasty maintaining their trade fleet and not isolating themselves.

I can see Mu being a serious contender on the world stage, because being on that trade route would make them UNIMAGINABLY wealthy. Since the climate is so consistent, societies would have an easier time spreading over large distances, so you've got the potential for centralization and empire. The real juice to inject would be a couple fictional invasions by an Indian or Chinese power to spread the good word of our lord and savior The Horse to Mu, and things snowball from there. With the large central plains of the continent to really thrive in, horses would make linking up West and East overland truly feasible. It'd take a while to actually take off, sure, but after hanging out and chilling and hunting megasloths for a thousand years, suddenly the plains nomads have horses--and maybe more importantly, the places just bordering the plains nomads now have horses. All it takes is one Cyrus from a plains-adjacent backwater city-state to sweep in toward that wealthy west coast with horse archers and light cavalry, conquer that peninsula and get the supercharge from the triangular trade, and you've got a real son of a bitch of an empire on your hands. By the Common Era, I could see the friction in that region creating a second Mediterranean pressure cooker environment out there, and then all bets are off. You've got Chinese dynasties in Mu, Munese dynasties in China, religious wars between the blend of weird Hindu-Inca syncretized East and a newly converted Muslim West, shit's wild.

A great follow up idea to this is: the Americans vs the Japanese in the deserts of Mu, happening simultaneously with the North African campaign.

There is a sub continent under New Zealand that they recently discovered. Apparently, the mountains of New Zealand are the highest point of the continent.

Somewhere in the Mu Continent universe, Cody is making a video that asks "What if Mu never existed and there were only islands in the Pacific?"

It's actually really interesting to think about the idea of two Polynesian civilizations, one maybe Chinese-inspired and one Inca-inspired, having vastly different religious and cultural ideals and clashing over them, while still speaking a somewhat mutually intelligible language and sharing lots of basic culture with each other. Imagine what those wars would look like. This is fascinating to think about even if the dude who invented Mu was bonkers.

I think that the Megafauna would probably survive in Mu, purely due to how big it is. Yet I can imagine that they'd be incredibly endangered and wouldn't be that numerous, with them surviving where the humans were less numerous.

Imagining a Pacific Theater in WW2 with Mu existing is real crazy and pretty interesting

"Water levels will rise and change everything!" If we can add a continent, we can remove an equal volume of water. I think that's an allowable handwave for this scenario. EDIT: The whole evolution of life on Earth would change so no humans would exist. There, discussion finished.

Instead of mu rising sea levels, why not assume there is less water? I mean you are assuming a lot more land, why does it displace water rather than replace water? Both are reasonable assumptions since, you know, they are totally made up. Would be interesting video. And easier to conceive the consequences of MU

i flew intercontinental several times as a young one, and I remember sitting window seat and looking out at the ocean expanse for miles for long moments spanning several minutes at a time, and thinking how easy it would be to hide something out there. So much space, we don't really process it most of the time. You could absolutely land a space ship the size of a small country in the middle of the water and -if you knew the plane paths and could avoid being in them -there's no WAY anyone would ever find you out there. I also remember picturing sea creatures as big as I could see. They could totally exist out there and there would be literally no way to detect them. Crazy how much of the earth is undiscovered by humans.

If Mu started Human contact around 1500 bc, why wouldn't horses eventually be traded for goods ,that makes Mu easier to traverse and accelerates its human advancement

whenever I hear more about pseudo-archeologists and their worldbuilding theories they remind me more and more of an evil version of JRR Tolkien

Now imagine if all the hypothetical landmasses were real? Mu, Atlantis, Lemuria, Zealandia, and all the obscure ones as well.

I believe that if Mu existed, it would have been the pacific empire, maybe not as advanced as Europe, but definitely very advanced, as there is just so many trade to be had, that ideas would spread fast enough for naval type ideas or something like that would have exploded

When I was a child, around 12-14, I used to imagine these kinds of things, I've written a few books/stories throughout my childhood and one of them was about a civilization in a massive island between Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Obviously I didn't have enough knowledge and study to imagine a realistic climate, fauna, flora and more, like you did, but it was a really fun project.

Is it weird I want to see a scenario where Lemuria, Zelandia, Atlantis and Mu all were existing continents at once?

I’d argue MU would have more likely been settled by the ancestors of Native Australians rather than the Polynesians. The ancestors of indigenous Australians arrived there when sea levels were low and nearly connected Asia to Australia. Depending on Mu’s geography it may have also been connected and allowed for human migration tens of thousands of years ago

Another consequence is that for sure America north of Amazon, south of Texas, west of Andes and the Caribbean would probably know how to make Iron weapons. By the time of Columbus arrival it'd probably be around 800-1000 year old set of skills they learned from traders of Mu.

Nah, that huge peninsula sticking out to Asia like a sore thumb would be a constant battlefield between Japan, the Ming dinisty trading fleet, and the Polynesian