Maria Vitae

Due to significant differences in the chemical composition of the minerals that form the planet as well as the nature of mineral-feeding bacteria in the earliest stages of life’s development, the oceans of planet Earth in this universe are composed of fresh water rather than salt water. This leads to drastic differences in the development of civilization compared to our own Timeline, with coastal settlements being much more prominent and human travel by boat between countries and continents occurring for the first time centuries or even millennia earlier than it did in our Timeline.