If the Aztecs beat the Conquistadors, What would have happened next.

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Paradoxically the biggest immediate change is in North Africa.
Without the American rush, Spain keeps it's attention on the Reconquestia, and the taking of Morocco.
I am not sure about this one. Morrocco was a far cry from Granada in population/defensive depth and had comparable tech.
Also without Mexico and Peru, Spain stays out of the Pacific, No Spanish Philippines.
This is true... which means Japan probably snaps it up.

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I got to agree that the whole Aztec edifice was tottering anyway. They would likly have crashed down shortly even without Colombus.

Lots of other civilizations/citystates in the area to pick up the remains though. Those fellows with metalworking maybe.

I'd have more faith in the Incas. The whole empire was young, not set in their ways and still encountering problems that required novel solutions. They were a number of notches down on the "Bloodthirsty human sacrifice" scale. They had an exceptionally defensible territory.

If the initial Conquistadores failed, they would have had time to get through their Smallpox civil war.

A touch of luck there, if the winner was one of those flexible and competent young rulers history seem to throw up now and then, and he got a long reign, they could do very well indeed.
Which Mesoamerican civilization do you see as succeeding the Aztec, if Columbus had never been born?
The Tarascans or another one?
 
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