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Not in the short term, where they get the funding necessary to conquer the rest of the Americas as OTL and then manage to conquer the Andes anyway just by surrounding them. Then the wealth t r i c k l e s d o w n to the rest of Europe enabling their colonial ventures.

The Maya (and other Mesoamerican cultures for that matter) were familiar with those as well, but they seem to have not been as prevalent in the Yucatan by the Postclassic, probably due to the shifting nature and style of warfare. Ambush tactics were quite effective against the Spanish in the...

After 1900: Ben Carson wins 2016 presidential election.

You know, I'm not a sailor but that's an interesting idea. The balsa trees used for Andean watercraft are in Central America as well. Being rafts of incredibly lightweight wood I imagine there'd be almost no draft -- ergo, the power of the currents to pull the craft also diminished? The...

The Early Postclassic goes from 900 to 1200. Chichen Itza was quite active during that time. Hence, closest thing to empire in the region, until the Spanish. There seems to be a few different interpretations on the exact extent of the Yucatan peninsula (I don't have a source on hand to confirm...

I can maybe see an ATL where Mesoamerican culture diffuses more heavily along the Caribbean and Gulf, but whether these would be wholly Maya would depend on other factors. Plastered white and red cities might attract Spanish conquistadors to the region, especially if they had gold. If they...

I don't think so. They were trying to improve relations after the War of 1812, were they not? I'm not sure if they were in the mood for another war with the Americans.

River valleys make good starters for a number of reasons, but not all river valleys produced civilizations and not all ancient civilizations were based on river valleys. They have many benefits and you can make many decent guesses but environmental determinism is something to be avoided. If you...

It is very telling that, despite a record of Plains Indian winter counts stretching centuries, there are only a few recorded events of disease, and those events follow years of famine or war. Physiological and even psychological stresses were and are an important factor in weakening an...

It was this one for me, though honestly that was my gateway into alternate history in general (but reading that made me realize how much I loved native TLs!). Though my real 'first' was before I even heard of alternate history, much less this website; it was one of my own timeline ideas. I've...

Sons of Inti meets Minarets of Atlantis :p

TL;DR doesn't seem to suit me very well...

Probably not as much as you may be banking on. Remember that culture isn't linear or completely predictable. The Americas may have adopted agriculture a little later, but the time between the first recorded agriculture and the first recorded complex societies is also much shorter -- and...

I think a change of title would get you better replies; I thought we were gonna brainstorm new musical instruments ITT, or discuss strange musical instruments of history. The electric guitar as most people imagine it was around since the 1940s and a little earlier, stemming from attempts to...

It took me a while to realize you were just screwing with me. I just about had a teleological heart attack...in my brain. *EDIT* I also seem to have completely misunderstood you, sorry. Yes, it's quite interesting that despite a later peopling of the Americas (no matter the specifics on the...

What elements are we using to compare 'more' or 'less' advanced, and why do we consider them so? Is practical metalworking, writing and the wheel the only factors? And why do we consider them advanced? Mesoamerica is littered with examples of extensive hydraulic engineering projects; I think...

If you're talking about the last paragraph, then no, because the atoms that made up Johannes Bureus were currently inhabiting other organisms and a few non-living substances. If you're talking about the middle paragraph, this is about the same time runic script began to be replaced by Latin due...

This is mostly OTL, you just have to figure out how to get the various local scripts to survive. You could have Futhark in Scandinavia (and its Old English cousin futhorc), Gothic in parts of northern Europe, a survival of Old Hungarian and probably a continuing tradition of Ogham in Ireland, if...