Thank you, thank you!
Will cook up an update later today.
do you think we can have an Americas update, I don't think we've had one in a while if im not mistaken.
Thank you, thank you!
Will cook up an update later today.
do you think we can have an Americas update, I don't think we've had one in a while if im not mistaken.
A little "border incident" between English and French colonies, perhaps?
The English, only known as Smythe, died of his wounds after returning to the English colony.
Poor Smythe, an unfortunately necessary casualty of a timeline writer....
Still this should be interesting. I'm assuming the mediator will be Iberia? Though I could be wrong.
Good, chaos and war in Livonia continues. Very good.
The First Mexican Revolution
Though the Iberians and the Mexicans (the demonym of those who live in the Dominion of Mexica) disagree on what to call the events of 1536 in the then Captaincy of New Granada, both agree that it was a watershed event that would foreshadow the formation of the Dominion, and the devolution of the Iberian colonial empire by the 19th century. The Iberians call it Cuauhtemoc's Great Revolt, while the Mexicans call it the First Mexican Revolution.
Although Hernán Cortés had succeeded in taking power for himself, and receiving confirmation from King Miguel of Iberia as Capitan of New Granada, the nephew of the former tlatoani Moctezuma II, Cuauhtemoc had managed to flee northward with a few loyal Mexica. Although Cuauhtemoc had only a few hundred or at most a thousand followers after Cortés' coup, he had managed to gain the help of many local tribes and cities, telling them about the "evil invader, who by his appearance as Quetzalcoatl, has deceived the Mexica." By 1536 Cuauhtemoc had twenty-five thousand men at his beck and call.
By this time Cortés had renamed Tenochtitlan New Toledo[1], and had encouraged his men to intermarry with the local women, as well as asking for a formal mission to be set up there. The temples were not demolished - yet the sacrificial areas were - but set up as churches, to serve as the places of worship for the New World congregation. Cortés also set up the leaders of the Mexica who allied with him as part of the New Granadan government, thus setting up a precedent of partial self-rule.
Cuauhtemoc made his move in 1536. Although his army was far larger, it was still relatively behind in terms of technology. None of his men had iron weapons, and most of them had not yet encountered the deadly sound of gunpowder. However, an elite core of the troops led by Cuauhtemoc himself had known of the Iberian force's advantage, and would prove to be his deadliest weapon.
The stage was thus set up for a clash - between the two men considered to be the most instrumental in founding the Mexican state.
Interesting update.
By instrumental, does this mean that Cortez and Cuauhtemoc are going to come to some sort of agreement?
Otherwise, it sounds like Cortez will get scalped.
In a earlier piece you had Cortes in India during 1520. It take a year to return [1521]- then some time before He reaches Cuba [decision and travel] [1522?]By the Way, ?Why does he go to - not nothing much Cuba?Thus, when Hernán Cortés, an Iberian soldier of fortune who had made his name in India, arrived, the Mexica were apprehensive of his arrival. Some assumed he was Quetzalcoatl, including the tlatoani Moctezuma II. Others were more cynical, assuming the white man came to conquer, including the tlatoani's nephew Cuauhtémoc. Eventually, however, the latter faction grew in power, culminating in a coup that deposed Moctezuma and set up his more pliable brother Cuitlahuac as tlatoani[1].
Cortés, being a shrewd man, took advantage of this period of political instability to gain the Mexican lands for the Iberian crown. He gained an audience with the deposed Moctezuma, offering him his throne back if he would agree to recognize Miguel of Iberia as a formal suzerain. After much internal debate, he finally relented, recognizing that he was still the rightful ruler of Tenochtitlan.
Cortés and Moctezuma's forces soon faced Cuauhtémoc's forces in a battle near Tlaxcala, where the latter was defeated by the superior arms of the Iberian. Though Cuauhtémoc lost, he gathered his supporters, and fled north, establishing a Mexica state that would hold for decades...
Upon arriving at Tenochtitlan, Cortés deposed Cuitlahuac and imprisoned him, and restoring Moctezuma to the position of tlatoani. However, Cortés was not satisfied with Tenochtitlan as a mere vassal state under Iberia - in order to further increase Iberian control, as well as increase the flow of gold to the state's coffers, he began to plan his own accession as leader of this state. But a lucky pathogen would make it easier for him.
Moctezuma II died in June of 1525;