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Fair point. Someone might, indeed, use that one.

Cortes and his new country are not "these hated enemies", and the Tlaxcalans will know the difference. They were one of the primary factors in helping Cortes defeat the actual Aztecs in the first place. They'll know it's the Spaniards in charge of the new country, and they'll see that the...

Lincoln had every intention of making a more balanced, less punitive Reconstruction. A single line thrown into a speech wouldn't have changed anything if he's still assassinated. The same people who screwed up Reconstruction will still do so even if he adds such a line. Now, if Booth's plot...

As the descendant of Huguenots, I'd like to see this myself. There were a couple of failed attempts at making Huguenot colonies in OTL. I do wonder whether Coligny could have pursued the idea more vigorously and gotten a French equivalent of New England (by which I mean a haven for the...

My initial reaction is to say that it's not as likely as the Native American-based names. The general trend (though obviously not an absolute rule) is for sports teams to have names that convey a sense of strength and ferocity. Centuries of wars had given white Americans a grudging respect for...

I don't think the Europeans would even think of calling it Cortesia, and to be honest, I don't think Cortes would either. I don't know how early the term "Mexico" came into usage to describe the area, but I think either that or some other Native-derived name (Aztlan, Nahuatlaca, Tenochtitlan...

Some interesting thoughts here. It may have been naive of me to assume they'd have to send their adventurers somewhere else to keep them out of the New World. I can't imagine they'd pull a Ming China and just withdraw into themselves, especially after other European powers start getting into...

I think blacks would eventually be given freedoms in an independent CSA. Due to the geopolitical realities of its situation, it would not be able to keep out influence from the USA, Britain, and Canada. Slavery would probably be abolished by the force of international opinion before it became...

Considering the South rebelled in the first place so that its whites could continue to keep its blacks as slaves, I really don't see racial relations in an independent Confederacy advancing faster than in a defeated one. After Emancipation comes (and it will come; it'll just take longer), I can...

Well, not exactly. I need them to stay in the Caribbean. In the rough draft I have going now, I have them leaving their Caribbean holdings in place, but not sending any new expeditions across the Atlantic, and being too distracted sinking their soldiers and money into war in Morocco to do much...

Given the time period, I can't see any reason they would encourage Asian immigration, and I can't see any reason any Asian nation would suddenly find its inhabitants drawn to Cortesia. The fact that the Native population has dropped from disease is not going to suddenly make the Catholic...

The point of this is neither the expulsion of Europeans in general from the Americas nor a Spanish conquest of Africa. The point is to distract Spain. I don't need Africa to be a "pushover". I don't even need Spain to succeed at whatever it is they end up doing. I just need them to follow...

I am working on a TL that requires, but is not directly about, an effective Spanish withdrawal from the New World in the early 16th century. My POD is that Cortes gets defeated by the Aztecs and King Carlos decides to rearrange Spain's priorities and concentrate on the Old World. My assumption...

Exactly. There will be some immigration, but it won't be nearly on the scale that OTL Mexico saw, and it will take longer. And Cortes won't be able to bring in additional soldiers from Spain. The nation's populace and army will be majority Native. (Heck, the army Cortes used to conquer the...

Cortes will be in a much more tenuous position than the OTL Spanish ended up. Where the OTL Spanish could flood Mexico with Spaniards, tear down Native buildings, and slaughter or enslave Native people with impunity, Cortes won't have the resources or security to be able to do that. I doubt...

I highly doubt it. This is the early 16th century, remember. The Reformation has only just gotten started, and Catholicism is still very much in charge. Pretty much everyone in the European world regarded polygamy as an abomination. Cortes would be excommunicated--which, as a Catholic, he...

I'm not an expert in sports history by any means, but as I understand it, sports club team names started out in the old days as very informal nicknames anyway, and it wasn't until later years that they started to actually become official. (Which explains why Chicago and Boston have such stupid...

Oh, there are definitely limits to how far he can go. With his limited resources, he can never make his domain as large as OTL New Spain/Mexico got. His successors could expand the borders a bit, but with the Spanish Empire opposing them rather than supporting them, it will stay a small...

But would it be good enough for Cortes? I mean, I think even he would understand that an invasion of China would be suicidal. But the Aztec Empire, for all its wealth and regional influence, was really very small. Once he had control of it, he would probably want more. It all comes down to...

Wow. Just . . . wow. Before I clicked the link, I thought the name was one of those "take that" names in protest of "Redskins"-type names. You know, like the Fighting Whities. Anyway, I agree with those who say that baseball is too much of a Northern sport to be very popular in an...