Could any of the civilizations in the Americas have ever developed into an empire that spanned from South America into central America and then well into North America?
No. Why would you even ask if that's possible? Nobody created a continent-wide empire in Europe and that's a much smaller place than either of the Americas, and they had easier means of travel throughout the area.
No. Why would you even ask if that's possible? Nobody created a continent-wide empire in Europe and that's a much smaller place than either of the Americas, and they had easier means of travel throughout the area.
Because India and China don't have jungle that to this day is impassable and a waterway that is a major birthplace of hurricanes right in their heart. It'd be ASB to have a powerbase in North America and hold South America or vice versa. The terrain is just too unfriendly for regular communication.
Spaniards did manage to create an empire spanning both Peru and Mexico, and much more.
The jungles of Panama are not going away. But there was some OTL communication between Peru and Mexico. Bronze metallurgy was introduced, and hairless dogs.
WI Incas build up sufficiently powerful navy, that they end up projecting power to Mexico and Inca soldiers with bronze swords take control of Tenochtitlan?
How does that have anything to do with what I said? China and India aren't entire continents, and more to the point they also had the same advantages that Europeans had to let them create large local empires.So how come someone was able to create large empires in China and India?
Spaniards accomplished said empire-building in a very different context than what you'd expect if you're asking if a Native-American empire could span through both continents. Spanish had a lot of ocean-traversing ships and, more importantly, germs. How many Inca soldiers can hop on over to Mexico and how are their bronze swords going to grant them enough of an advantage to conquer an empire with hundreds of thousands of soldiers? Empire-building in any continent is not even a fraction of how simple people on this forum tend to make it out to be, and in the Americas moreso. Also, source on the Pre-Columbian communication between Peru and Mexico?Spaniards did manage to create an empire spanning both Peru and Mexico, and much more.
The jungles of Panama are not going away. But there was some OTL communication between Peru and Mexico. Bronze metallurgy was introduced, and hairless dogs.
WI Incas build up sufficiently powerful navy, that they end up projecting power to Mexico and Inca soldiers with bronze swords take control of Tenochtitlan?
WI Incas build up sufficiently powerful navy, that they end up projecting power to Mexico and Inca soldiers with bronze swords take control of Tenochtitlan?
the big question here is just what kind of ships can the Incas build? If they get full out into the bronze age, can they build ones big enough to establish real communications with Mexico and point north, essentially bypassing that jungle in CA?
the big question here is just what kind of ships can the Incas build? If they get full out into the bronze age, can they build ones big enough to establish real communications with Mexico and point north, essentially bypassing that jungle in CA?
Bronze age ships aren't hurricane proof. That's going to create a problem vis a vis regular communications between two population centres with differing interests.
Excuse me?metallurgy, which is not a technology that was particularly present in the Western Hemisphere before the European mariners made contact