>>1118322
If we used the Roman alphabet only as the Romans used it, and if the continents were named Vespuca instead of America, the USA would be the VSV

>>1118333
If the Greeks met a tribe of Britons first, the Krytani (sp?), instead of Pretani, VSV would have been settled by the Kritish.

>Maine (Mass)

>>1118369

If the Greeks could spell, Britain would be Pritain.

How come the Antebellum-South never had any great men of letters?

The north had like Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson etc... etc...

Where are the Southern writers?

>>1118543
Samuel Clemens. Also Maryland was Southern back then, Poe was a southerner.

>>1118550
>Mark Twain
>antebellum

???

>>1118550
>Poe was a southerner
He wrote all his best work in the north though.

>>1118322
>COLLECTIVE
>REPUBLICS
>OF AMERIGO VESPUCCI

>>1118322
>europe is too sinful and commercialized
>lets go travel the ocean to live pure, simple lives
>united states of pornhub

>>1118543
Great question. I'm guessing it has something to do with the very martial nature of Southern education, or rural education in general.

Mark Twain had no real exposure to literature until he moved to Philadelphia.

>>1118543
There's Faulkner at least.