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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this big ass. Lady Macbeth (or king Abdallah ben Abdelaziz al-Saoud of Saudi Arabia) Fuck them all and let God sort His children out. Arnaud Amalric Kiss my hot lips! Joan of Arc Property is Theft! Benjamin Franklin Et merde! OK, the Guard...

Is not our familiar sequence Moon-day, Mars-day, Mercurius-day, Jupiter-day, Venus-day, Saturn-day? In Germanic tongues (including English) and with some mistaken correspondences Moon-day, Tyr (or Thor)-day, Wotan-day, Donar (or Thor)-day, Friig (or Freija)-day... Of course the medieval Church...

The problem for the pistol is to 'catch' in the first time, and early handguns require two hands, one to hold the weapon, the other for the fuse. Its use is far less 'instinctive' than to throw a javelin, and for a moment you have your shield strapped to the arm which you can't use actively. And...

Relevant (and excellent) thread for the North of North America: Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule Elk (moose for you in the New World) was semi-domesticated in Finland, then abandoned because horses were readily available. In an alternate NA without surviving native...

Indeed: the astrologers / astronomers of ancient Mesopotamia were struck by what, for them, could not be a coincidence, the 'obvious' division of the moon cycle in 4 phases of 7 days, and the presence of 7 moving 'stars' (the sun, moon, and the 5 interior planets) in the sky. Hence more...

A fascinating question, but one which would easily trigger a flame war! Spontaneously every population everywhere thought itself as 'different' [to clearly separate 'self' from 'non-self' is a basic requirement of Life] and automatically 'superior', the Sons of The Sun-God or whatever. But...

Because of phonetic similarities between a few Cherokee and Welsh words some claim that in the mid-12th C. one Madog ab Owain Gwynedd founded a Welsh colony in what is historical Cherokee territory. [did the 12th C. ancestors of the Cherokees already live in 'Cherokee territory'? Who cares...

I have edited my previous post to acknowledge your excellent mention of the Mayas of 1848. But for a large Meso-American country pushing the Spaniards back and remaining independent from the start... Europeans would not be deterred by even a series of minor defeats (in what amounts to...

Of course these is no 'pure civilization', but the OP seems to aim at an independent 'country' having kept more of its Native cultural heritage than in some parts OTL of Latin America. The purely American POD leading to what is expected in the OP would be a mutation of a local disease by...

If following 0ccam's rule one favors the less drastic divergence, gunpowder would come from the East (the earliest Chinese references date from the early 9th C., but they were mixing saltpeter and sulfur since the 1st C. and had observed the powerful flame of burning saltpeter, so...) at a time...

For all reasons mentioned above I can't see any hope of a surviving purely Native "country". Even an early POD (allowing time for the Native population to recover before the 16th C.) with a rather far-fetched hypothesis (ensuring a limited but [semi]permanent contact so that diseases turn...