Valdemar II
Banned
There's two aspect in this challenge one is how Carthagian has affected America and the other are how the Spanish will react. The answer to the first are that it won't be recognisable compare to OTL, there won't be Aztecs and likely no Mayans either, likely the entire Caribian, most of Central America and the American South will be populated by "Mestizo", with a post Carthagian culture. Likely the Caribian will be a mess of city and island states, while Mexico are more and less unified under a unitarian empire. I doubt Human sacrifies will be common but it will likely exist on small scale.
How will the Spanish react? Likely a lot more like they planned to in OTL. They will set up a few outposts for trade and send a few missionaries which will likely be somewhat succesfull, beside that they will likely end up conquer a few of the local citystates if they becomes hostile, so more and less like the Portugese in Asia. If Europe continued to develop like in OTL likely the Dutch will conquer most of the Carribean late on, making it into a second Indonesia, through they likely convert the locals, mostly because it will be seen as somewhat harmless, and the Spanish has already begun.
How will the Spanish react? Likely a lot more like they planned to in OTL. They will set up a few outposts for trade and send a few missionaries which will likely be somewhat succesfull, beside that they will likely end up conquer a few of the local citystates if they becomes hostile, so more and less like the Portugese in Asia. If Europe continued to develop like in OTL likely the Dutch will conquer most of the Carribean late on, making it into a second Indonesia, through they likely convert the locals, mostly because it will be seen as somewhat harmless, and the Spanish has already begun.