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IOTL, the British colonies revolted to become the USA. The USA then exploded in area and population and would become first a world power and then superpower and now hyperpower.

But suppose the Americas never developed a world power of any kind? Suppose the entire Western Hemisphere was full of middling nations (sort of like what we see in South America today)?

With a PoD of say, 1492, what if the Americas was full of small to middle sized countries and none was large enough to become a world power?

And with a 1492 PoD, was a world power (on the order of OTL USA) probable or unlikely to develop in the Americas in the first place?
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