aztec mexico

  1. What if the eagle eating the snake on the cactus is first spotted (and Mexico City is built) on the U.S border?

    Instead of the prophecy being fulfilled in a swamp in the center of Mexico, it's fulfilled in what is now the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo. Right across the border from Laredo, Texas. During an expedition north by the Aztec empire. What if a city the size of Mexico City (which is the capitol...

  2. The Aztec Empire reforms itself?

    There are a bunch of threads on this site discussing the possibility of the Aztecs defeating Hernán Cortés and his native allies, the most common POD being a bigger victory at the Noche Triste where the Spaniards are completely massacred. However, many posters argue that, even if the invasion is...

  3. Cuauhtémoc escapes Tenochtitlan, leads a rebellion against Spain?

    The last tlatoani of the Aztec Triple Alliance, Cuauhtémoc, attempted to leave Tenochtitlan in a canoe right as the city was about to fall to the Spanish conquistadors and their numerous native allies. However, he was caught by a Spanish vessel and, after spending four years as a de facto...

  4. DBQ: Why the fuck is the Nahua majority religion Orthodox Christian?

    Okay, so pardon me for being an ignorant New Englander, but history and culture and stuff are kind of a new interest for me, so I didn't really pay attention to these things until recently. I was aware that the Nahua were mostly Christian and had been since sometime around the 18th century, and...

  5. Advice on what would happen if the Aztecs defeated the Spanish in 1520 and how would it happen?

    Hello everybody. Well, this is my first time posting on Alternatehistory.com since I've heard of this site since I was on the AltHistory Wiki in Wikia/FANDOM. But I am currently here because I need advice on a timeline I am writing on the Alternate History Wiki on Miraheze called Mexica Victory...

  6. How would the English colonise or control Mexico ?

    Assuming the English got to the Triple Alliance/Aztecs first (English Columbus in the north then later voyagers post-1500 began travelling south to look for a Central Passageway to Asia to bypass Portuguese African route monopoly), then what and how would the English approach to colonising or...

  7. Crosses, Pacha and Poddel'nyye Novosti: Reverse Cold War - Into the Future
    Threadmarks: Crosses, Pacha and Poddel'nyye Novosti: Update 1 - November 13, 2015 to December 25, 2017

    I will hereby continue the lovely, Turtledove nominated timeline Hammer's, Sickle's and Mushroom Clouds: The Story of the Reverse Cold War by @Kaiser K who sadly passed away in February 2016. After the actual Reverse Cold War, @TPL99 and then me, at that time with permission by Kaiser K, took...
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