WI Surviving Inca Empire

The Inka had failed to conquer Colombia once already. It was just an entirely different world for them.

Say what? Huayna Capac had just taken Quito when he died and the Incan Civil War broke out; how was he supposed to be conquering in Colombia without going through Ecuador first? Sure, he had mixed results in Colombia, but he did steadily advance, taking what is modern-day Cali(I believe).
 
Atahualpa had a plan to capture the Spaniards and killed them all but three (aside from keeping the horses); the blacksmith, the gunner, and the barber.

The first two for obvious reasons, and the barber beacuse he had the "power to rejuvenate men" after shaving them :D.

In any case after the end of the civil war the Incas were in no position to go conquering anywhere; the demographic collapse suffered by both the epidemics and the war itself at caused serious labor and military manpower shortages which would not have allowed the Empire to run as efficiently as it would have in the pre-1525 period. Expansion in any direction would be out of the question, to consider otherwise would be ASB. Ecuador itself had only been pacified by c. 1523 (hence all of the professional armies being in the north.)
Unless European contact can be delayed by at least a generation, or Wayna Qapaq survives the plague, eliminating the civil war, there really is no chance for survival for the old Empire.
 
I know this is dead but I just have to say...

Do you think the Tawantinsuyu could have westernized? They easily adapted to conquered peoples' technology, and European tech doesn't seem that far off.

Also, what about their religion? The were already slowly moving from a pantheon to monotheism, and their god, Inti, was a supreme being. Do you think the Spanish could have tried to protect them and convert them like the Mexicans? They also believed in a sort of monotheism, and both were strangely similar to Christianity.
 
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