The Untouched New World

it would sure help a lot if you have iron/bronze/copper tools instead of just rock and bones

The Inca had bronzeworking, though I'm not entirely certain if they used it just for jewelry, or to make weapons and tools. I'm fairly certain they had some copper tools (or one of the Andean civilizations at any rate).
 
The Inca had bronzeworking, though I'm not entirely certain if they used it just for jewelry, or to make weapons and tools. I'm fairly certain they had some copper tools (or one of the Andean civilizations at any rate).

Both the Inka and the Tarascan were using bronze weapons by the Cortes. However, the Inka were devastated by civil war and disease though, and the Tarascan submitted to the Spanish after seeing what happened to the Mexica, who had been their largest rival empire in the Mesoamerican region for centuries (think Carthage & Rome).

Its one of the primary reasons ongoing resistance to Spanish rule was centered mainly in the areas that made up the former Inkan and Tarascan empires.
 

Maur

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Yes, MesoAmerica would keep advancing at it's own pace. Unfortunately, that pace was significantly slower than the pace of Europe, and especially that of Europe with borrowing from India, China, the Middle East, and to a lesser extent Africa. As a couple of others have said, the New World was falling further behind the old one as time went on. That might have changed to some extent when Peru came in more sustained contact with MesoAmerica, but at best they probably fall behind at a slower rate. The Old World just had more resources--more easy to domesticate plants and animals, more room--over twice the land mass if my back of the envelope calcs are correct, to support bigger populations.
Really? I only saw people claiming OW had later start, and i tend to agree.

Whether it would slow down later is not a point, at this stage of history OW centers had little to no contact with each other, too.

According to one study of Mexican Indian populations, the Mexican Indians had roughly the equivalent of a black death roughly every 20-25 years for something approaching 150 years before the populations finally stabilized. It took that long to develop a disease-hardened population. The population ended up at maybe 10% of where it started, depending on how many people the very first epidemic killed. Virgin soil diseases are a huge problem.
The study is most likely just a guess since we have no exact idea about populations of pre-colombian and early colombian NW, much less the impact of diseases.
 
This reminds me, does anybody know that one AH novel where Britain, Spain and Portugal never colonized the New World and Muslims did?
 
Does anyone know the name the Mayans gave to their nation? Like, what did they call the land they lived on? Cause im sure it wasnt Yucatan...thats an Aztec word, or variation of one anyway.
 
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