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He could have warned them about global warming as well, this could occupy more of their time than investigating world-ending disasters.

How can Damian’s knowledge of the intellectuals of the 18th century be so broad? Even an historian might have difficulty to know people from sonmany different places.

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I find it annoying that Damian decided to interfere so much with Earth. He could probably have teleported his iron with magic and refine it at an atomic level with magic. He could have made a spell to detect iron, and plunder undiscovered mines… He might have more stealthy options.

saved? salvaged?

In this era the Dutch Cape colony is pretty small and the Great Trek of the Afrikaners hasn’t happened yet. The indigenous of the area are the Venda and Sotho people, and at best the region might be in the area of influence of the Mwenemutapa Empire, who are in contact with the Portuguese of the colony of Mozambique.

In this era French is more widely spoken by diplomats in all those places excepted China. It’s a common occurrence in even the Persian court (Safavid dynasty), to the point the Farsi language has many loans from French. The Ottomans also probably have people good in French since the sultan Suleyman the Magnificent/Legislator, who had his own interpreters to speak with King Francis the First of France. In Russia, the imperial family wrote letters to each other in French too, it’s in their archives, and they will know that language pretty well even as late as the Soviet Union. Only the Qing China Empire would need interpreters in their own language.

The Seven Years War is still raging. The Great Lakes and Labrador are nominally under French control, but in reality Innu and Algonquin indigenous are mostly the ones present there and they have no metallurgy. The French had no mines excepted for the iron mines of the Forges du Saint-Maurice in Trois-Rivières. Mines were also surveyed in the region of the Missouri valley in Louisiana but they were not exploited.

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