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hey, all. i finally got around to actually writing part of my TL again rather than just making notes and decided to start with the my alternate Aztec Empire. i'd been batting it around for a while but finally decided on having Cesare Borgia replace Hernan Cortes as the conqueror of the Aztecs ITTL. this obviously requires him to survive his OTL death and be sent to the New World, so i wanted to open some discussion as to how this could happen: while his actions in the New World will at least partly reflect those of Cortes IOTL, i still need to figure out exactly HOW he gets to the Americas. my current idea is that the European governments basically play hot potato with him and he keeps getting sent between different powers because they don't want to deal with him until he ends up being sent to Cuba, after which Velazquez de Cuellar also tries to get him out of the way by sending him from Cuba to Mexico. however, i'm not sure how likely this is.

a brief disclaimer: i DID start a thread about this idea when i first came up with it a long time ago, the conclusion at the time being that no one would want to give Cesare any chance of getting into power. frankly, i don't care that it's implausible--i just REALLY like this scenario, so i'd like to hear some other opinions ;)
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