maya

After the sack of Jerusalem (587 BC) thousands from Judah's military flee on phoenician ships to Americas and conquer Mesoamerica and Andes with Germs, Metal and Horses How will this change Judaism of the settlers ? ( it was still polytheistic as evidenced by elephantine papyri) How will change...

They domesticate an alternate version of Baird's tapir. In this timeline, it will Gestate in 300 (instead of 400) days and they reach sexual maturity in up to 1.2 years (instead of 2 years) it will also tend to have triplets, quadruplets & quintuplets (instead of one calf at a time). I think...

So, I looked up some of the history of the Yucatán on Wikipedia, and it is fascinating. There were a lot of Yucatán independence and autonomist movements from the 18th and 19th centuries, it seems. The Rebellion of Jacinto Canek happened in the middle of the 18th century, and the Caste War of...

The polity of Peten Itza, it's capital at Nojpeten, was one of the last Maya states to fall to the Spanish. While the kingdoms of the Yucatan and Campeche were conquered relatively quickly, it was the Peten basin, and it's deep jungles, that continued Maya resistance even as other kingdoms fell...

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...

So an interesting idea that came to my head was that the Taino not only get into regular contact with the Mesoamericans, but end up frequently raiding and plundering them, almost like a Viking analogue for the New World. Although some evidence of contact between Mesoamerica and the Caribbean has...

Hunac Ceel was a Maya general who brought down the power of Chichen Itza and established the dominance of Mayapan over the Yucatan peninsula. Legends say that Hunac Ceel, also known as Cauich, unsuccessfully fought the Itzas and was taken captive. He was hurled into a cenote as a sacrifice to...

Fairly straight forward. The idea is do I wish to include into the timeline that I am already working on and in process of; a pod for the American continents. This question is asked, as I am surely interested in realizing a particular thread regarding a maritime Maya civilization. This maritime...

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...

Inspired by the thread on Meiji Inca and the Europeans butterflies proceeding from it. https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/can-the-incas-pull-a-meiji.448982/ If we go from the postulate that Cortes and Pisarro are not as lucky as they were in OTL and stretch it a bit further so that...

During the time before the arrival of Europeans in the New World, the Maya were one of the most powerful Empires that existed. Between 250 and 900 AD, the Maya Empire dominated the Yucatan peninsula. They built massive cities sporting spectacular stone sculptures, developed intricate...

Point of Divergence ... We know that based on archeological discoveries that the Vikings made several excursions to North America in the area known as Greenland and settlements were made there, roughly between 900 and 1000 AD. Some discoveries have been made that have called into question the...

What are the best chances of Southeast Asia, Oceania and the native civilizations of the Americas to establish cultural, diplomatic and economic relations long before the start of European exploration? And what are the possible butterfly effects of such event?

Suppose that: -a very large earthquake occurs in Yucatan, expelling a lot of mayans, destroying infrastructure, and forcing such refugees to flee. They decide to flee west, and end up finding the aztecs. This one may be more detrimental to the mayans. -or, some mayan city-state grows into too...

Could advanced but not so strong civilizations like the Mayans and the Muisca have had survived European contact? Thank you.

By all reports the Kaanul (or "Snakes") empire was something quite unlike any other Classical Mayan state. It was more organized and larger (at its height ruling over a realm of some 1.75 million people, 250,000 of those city dwellers) than anything that had come before. For some centuries...

I tried looking into this but I couldn't find anything. When the Spanish came and started conquering, were there any calls to reunite the League of Mayapan to fight back against the Spanish invaders? If so, how would it work? Could it do anything?