A few New World what ifs/questions

1. WI: Horses survive in North America?

2. WI: Ancestral strain of smallpox travels over with Native Americans
- Would this start a "virus war" where this different New World pox strain got into the Old World and infected Europeans?

- Would this affect the Natives immunity to smallpox?

3. WI: South and North America never collide?

4. Is there any none ASB scenario where any Mesoamerican or North American society/civilization can hold on to there land and fend of Europeans to the modern day?

5. Is there any possible way for Native Americans to progress further with their technology? i.e. Invent the wheel, metal casting etc.

If you happen to answer any of these thanks for taking the time.
 
4. Is there any none ASB scenario where any Mesoamerican or North American society/civilization can hold on to there land and fend of Europeans to the modern day?

For this one, yeah, the early conquest was hanging by a thread, made of shaky alliances. Blow one of these alliances (and god knows the conquistadores were brutish) they would have been destroyed.

Basically they rolled a massive serie of natural sixes on the dices. Even during the escape from Mexico they could very have been wiped out.
 
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