Earth (Pangea)



Pangea is the supercontinent on Earth existing around the year 9,000,000 B.C. It was this point in time, nine thousand millennia ago, that comprised one of the four major time-zone accessible through the time doors within the alternate history of Earth created by  Minax's disruptions in Ultima II.

Description
In standard history, the Pangea was a phenomenon of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, and would have been present at around 250,000,000 B.C. In the continuity of Ultima II's world, however, the land mass was still undivided as of what would have been the Miocene period, pushing the eventual occurrence of the continental drift forward by millions of years.

If the Stranger traversed this Ur-continent during the days of Minax, the hero would have found that there was a small human settlement on the landmass, an extraordinary exception to widespread scientific consensus regarding the era. A dungeon could also be found in the mountainous region which would eventually develop into modern Greenland.

Trivia

 * The dungeon entrance in northern Pangea (Proto-Greenland) is inaccessible in the DOS port of the game. However, it is accessible in later ports, e.g. in the 1983 remake for Commodore 64. Furthermore, a fan-made patch has corrected the problem for the DOS version.