AHC: Keep Pre-Columbian American cities going.

one bane of ancient ruins was, weirdly enough, railroads. Apparently, these consumed quite a few old buildings as they were scavenged for railroad ballast. Harrapa, Tiahuanaco, several places in the middle east.
 
Re Dubrovnik I think it was heavily patched up after the Serb-Croatian wars, sure restored to its older state, but as a restored entity

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So what if Cortez, in 1521, decides to not tear down the step pyramid of Templo Mayor, but leave the pyramid and approach stairs intact and build a Christian church on top of the pyramid, in place of the Aztec temples? Would the later Spanish governors and bishops review that decision?
 
So what if Cortez, in 1521, decides to not tear down the step pyramid of Templo Mayor, but leave the pyramid and approach stairs intact and build a Christian church on top of the pyramid, in place of the Aztec temples? Would the later Spanish governors and bishops review that decision?

There was a small Christian shrine put on the very top of Tenochtitlan's Pyramid after Cortes and the conquistadors destroyed all the religious idols. It was later razed down with the rest of the pyramid and replaced with a small church which would later be replaced with the modern day Cathedral. It's not going to happen so long as the Spanish are in charge.
 
There was a small Christian shrine put on the very top of Tenochtitlan's Pyramid after Cortes and the conquistadors destroyed all the religious idols. It was later razed down with the rest of the pyramid and replaced with a small church which would later be replaced with the modern day Cathedral. It's not going to happen so long as the Spanish are in charge.
Agreed. But for the aforementioned political reasons, I can't see the Aztec Empire surviving the conquest. The Tarascans might be able too, though I'm not as informed about them: However, Tzintzuntzan has largely survived to the present day relatively intact.

I'd also like to point out that I don't think that either Mesoamerican nor Andean technology was really any more "backward" than European technology: While in some ways - such as metallurgy or mechanical engineering - the American civilizations were clearly behind (especially metallurgy in Mesoamerica), but in other ways, such as the Aztecs with their chinampas, great causeways, vulcanization of rubber and their utilities system, the Maya with their fabled mathematics and astronomy as well as water filters and flush toilets and the Inka with their famous paved roads, bridges, aqueducts - the longer than that of even the Romans, textiles rivalling the silk of contemporary China or the Chilkat blankets of the Pacific Northwest Coast and medicine on a level arguably equal to that of contemporary India or Japan.
 
Even in the more hunter-gather and chiefdom parts of the Americas, more than one modern city was built over what was once a key Native settlement. For instance Atlanta was originally a Creek town.
 
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