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We had a productive thread on this subject a few years ago, but after recently revisiting some old notes of mine, I thought I'd canvass some opinions to see how possible/plausible people would find such an event occurring, and if it did occur, how far some sort of llama pastoralism could spread...

I made this for school a while back, and i think it might be worth posting here. Obviously it has it's issues, but it's a start The Western Empire Survives BACKGROUND Before I dive into this story, I must disclaim that this is not a real analysis of “What if the Western Roman Empire...

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Assuming you believe that Huayna Capac did not die from smallpox and there was no 1528 pandemic and I personally believe this argument , say Pizarro dies in 1528 in Tumbes or for what ever reason the Spanish expedition arrives in 1537, is this enough time for Atahualpa to have consolidated his...

While migrating to New Zealand in the early 1300s, a significant Polynesian settler population (with animals) is blown south by a freak storm and gets caught in the powerful eastward winds of the roaring forties. They are carried to the Chilean coast of south America. Either unable or unwilling...

The beginnings of New Spain involved an initial bit of luck before disease allowed to steamroll across the Americas. Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Incas was one of the biggest examples of dumb luck in colonial history, but would he have had the same success without Cortez's success to...

Is there a complete or at least substancial enough genealogical tree of the Sapa Inca? I tried to search for it and couldn't find much after the Empire itself ceased to exist. Even if its just a rough outline, I would appreciate information on the Sapa Inca's descendants, preferably direct...

The Spanish colonization of the Americas, including the conquests of the Inca, Aztecs and other natives brought great wealth and power to the Spanish Empire. However, that wealth was also a disadvantage, as all that silver caused economic inflation in the Spanish Empire. So what if, Spanish...

As it says on the tin. Is it possible for the Neo-Inca to sucessfully resist the Spanish at least to the degree the Maya did? AFAIK it took 20 years for the Neo-Inca to bridge the gap in technology. So, is it plausible?

Let's say that Cortés' expedition ends up in a total failure, as it might have had if the native allies Cortes found in Mexico were less friendly or if he failed to find a decent interpreter, and the Spanish authorities in Cuba care little since Cortes was a mutineer at that point. Let's then...

In a hypothetical scenerio, where Cortez expedition failed SO horribly, that causes a butterfly effect, in which the Aztecs (although, internally collapsing) and the Maya tribes and the Inca Empire survive Spanish conquest, and would later make-contact with the other Europeans, like the...

The Inca Empire was one of the largest and most successful of the empires of the Americas, being part of the "Big Three" which most people are familiar with. It started out as a small city-state in the Cusco Valley, that grew to encompass much of the region under the reign of...

What if Pachacuti had failed to defeat the Chankas and the Inca Empire became stillborn, with the Kingdom of Cuzco never expanding beyond the Cuzco valley or being eliminated? What effects would this have on the Andean world? Could the Chimu survive? How would colonization be affected? The lack...

Peru is a relatively small player in the world today. Given the Amazon to the east. The Andes to the south, and fairly powerful nations surrounding it, geographically, Peru isn't exactly in the best spot. But given that the Inca Empire once held what could conservatively be called a large part...

What would happen to the La Plata basin and adjacent areas if Spain fails to conquer the Inca Empire? Might Spain ultimately decide to settle and consolidate their control over the area to a greater extent than IOTL? They could follow up on Pedro de Mendoza's discovery of Buenos Aires instead of...

What if the Inca in South America successfully developed and used electricity and radio for rudimentary communication by the time the Conquistadors arrived in the 16th century? For example, a paddle-wheel in a stream, rotating two magnetic lodestones around a crystalline material which is a...

What if, for some reason, Spain never conquers the Aztecs or Inca? (Most likely POD, Cortez dying, and no conquistadors come for some ASB reason), and the Spanish never gains the Large amount of New World wealth of Gold and Silver? There can be those countries who can still get rich off of...

What if the Inca Empire never existed? How might things have changed?

In this alternate timeline, the Ottomans are far more hostile to Italian traders in the wake of conquering Constantinople. Now being cut off from a large source of their profit, and desperate to make it up, the Doge of Genoa, Paolo Fregoso, accepts Christopher Columbus's plan to attempt finding...

So every once in a while we discuss about what would happen if the main indigenous nations of America managed to fend off the European settlers and conquerors, from the least (Aztecs) to the most (Incas/Tahuantinsuyus) plausible. 1.Something that I keep wondering, more specifically in...