native american empires

From what I've read, the Inca were among the best nourished people in the world at the time. It was by no means an "equal" society, but it was one that seemed to take good care of its subjects. Part of it was due to the environment requiring a lot of big picture management to be productive. When...

---------------------- Part 1: A Sign From Above Palace of Axayacatl, Tenochtitlan May 20, 1520 A.D. Moctezuma sat, lonely and silent, in one of the many rooms of his father's palace. Though several hours had passed since the sun vanished into the horizon, the tlatoani's body refused to sleep...

Chapter 1: The Great Kingdom It was a bright summer day in the city of Kahoquah. It was the a type of day where the warmth was cooled by a soft summer breeze that soothed the soul and refreshed all those who felt it; the type of day where merchants and vendors would gather at the markets...

While there are quite a bit of threads trying to change the historical fate of the various native tribes and kingdoms of the Americas, I want to go one step further. Your challenge is to find a way for a state that culturally is undisputably Native American in government and population, rule...

Just a few days ago on DeviantArt, I found this map by MoshiDungo: The title of the map is What if the Americas colonised Europe? As the title explicitly implies, it shows a pre-Columbian Europe being colonized by American sailors, rather than the other way around. Unfortunately, the...

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...

Horses evolved in the planes of the north american continent. Eventually in prehistoy (can't remember the time frame, it was before the rise of civilization but they were domesticated after) most horse breeds had migrated to Afro-eurasia, or gone extinct. What if they remained in America in...

This is a simple and basic challenge, find a way to have a native group reach a point where it could feasibly develop an empire on a scale similar to the Aztecs. Whether this is more of an economic scale, or military scale is entirely up to you.

Assuming no European colonialism, either through an Americapox scenario or butterflying European "discovery," is a unified Caribbean possible? Or likely? If so, which society would succeed at it? I'm specifically envisioning a native Caribbean "mare nostrum" equivalent, whereby the major...

Dealing with what-if history for the Americas can be a pain when it comes to dealing with any scenario that results in Native Americans not being decimated by Europeans. A large amount of pre-Columbian history has been simply lost or destroyed. And we're only finding now that there were some...

When I think about history, two groups I often think about has having similar stories are Jews and Native Americans. Both groups of people built civilizations before being conquered from the outside by more advanced civilizations, who after many wars, settled their homeland until they were but a...

I was washing some dishes after carousing the wank section on the site and thought "I want to start an AHC thread, how hard could it be?" Here's the challenge, create a North America where Native Americans control a majority, if not all, of the landmass. There are a couple of restrictions...

Proto-horses went extinct in North America about 12000 years ago - approximately the same time humans arrived on the continent. How would history have been different if the American horse hadn't gone extinct?

Beginning 700 AD, locate the right people, the right place, the right resources, the right leader (reasonable likeness), and the right ideas to build up a Native American tribe or nation based north of present-day Panama to survive the European invasion in very good shape and beat the invaders...

Background During World war 2 there was a group of Native Americans called the "American Indian Federation" These native Americans were Nazi Sympathizers. This is an untold story of World war 2. They were fascist Sympathizers and supporters of the Nazi Powers. In fact, the leading member...

What would need to happen for Native Americans to reach a point where they are on par with Europe? By this I mean that this alternate Native American civilization would have to be about as technologically advanced as Europe and be capable to establish colonies. My theory is that there would have...

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...