mesoamerica

Something that I have wanted to ask for a long time is: could Mesoamerica have invented stuff that would ensure more enhanced technological and scientific advancement? I know that Mesoamerican societies were very advanced, but is there any way Mesoamerican civilizations could be far more...

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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...

Before the rise of the Aztec Empire, the Valley of Mexico was dominated by the city of Azcapotzalco, which had Tenochtitlan as its vassal. Eventually the latter grew too big for its britches, and so it allied with Texcoco and Tlacopan in a successful campaign to overthrow their overlord, which...

Introduction Entry #1, 100,000-6,000 BPD (Before Present Day), Global The Past 100,000 Years, Roughly Although Human Settlement is nonexistent by this point in the Anahuacs and still confined to the origin continent of Yectal [1] (Africa), it is necessary to understand the underlying...

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...

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...

What if the Mexica never relocated to the Valley of Mexico from Aztlán? How might it alter Mesoamerica?

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...

The Tarascan State was an empire located roughly on what is now the Mexican state of Michoacán, centered on the city of Tzintzuntzan, on the shores of Lake Pátzcuaro. Their government was more centralized than that of the Aztecs, who were their contemporaries and also fierce enemies, and their...

Whoever survives this period of colonialism and conquest, it ain't the Aztecs. They were more of a rickety tributary empire than anything, they might defeat Cortes, but they can't hold off the Spanish forever, as seems to be the consensus on the forum. Others however, seem to have a better...

The potato, the humble spud, developed in the foothills of the Andes, was a major staple crop there. It is way more nutritious and provides more calories per acre than many other staple crops. What if it had reached Mesoamerica in the Pre-Columbian period? The challenge is to get them across the...

Human Sacrifice has always been an important practice for the peoples of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, going back all the way to the Olmecs and possibly earlier throughout the early farming cultures in the region. What if the practice never became part of the religions of the Mesoamerican peoples...

8 Deer Jaguar Claw was a powerful Mixtec king and ruler of Tilantogo who was the son of the high priest 5 Crocodile. He was recorded to have conquered 94 cities, and briefly succeeded in uniting many of the various Mixtec kingdoms under his rule. He had a half-sister, 6 Lizard Jade-Fan, who was...

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...

Located in the Valley of Mexico and in existence from approximately 100 BCE to 750 CE, Teotihuacan was once the largest city in the Americas, with a population of perhaps 150,000 residents and an area of over 30 square km at its zenith in 450 CE. Some of the greatest monumental architecture of...

The (Native) American Dream: The Complete History of Tahkoxia and Xuyuba Early Humans and Domestication Given the fact that humans originated and evolved in Africa, it seems rather interesting that some of history’s most powerful civilizations would in part of the world that was an...

How come there are no Tarascan timelines on this forum? I was thinking of it and IMO the Tarascans have a way better chance at surviving than the Aztecs, because from what I know they had a centralized state with metallurgy, defensible terrain, weren't hated by everyone, and judging by the fact...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec_alternative_origin_speculations So I’ve seen AH & sci-fi stories use the “Zheng He‘s treasure ships contact New World civilizations” premise as their POD, but I can’t think of any works based around the idea of Ancient Chinese forming the Olmec. Does anyone...

What if the Aztecs never relocated to the Valley of Mexico? How would that affect things?