WI: The Aztecs and The Incas were conquered by two different European Powers?

Mexico is inundated with English minor nobleman taking the gold and stealing the land.

In the early 16th Century everyone behaved in a similar way. If confronted with a less advanced civilization you took what you could and you didn't consider the natives unless they were in a strong enough position to negotiate or put up prolonged resistance.

I do wonder, guys, if there were the English and the French who conquered the Aztecs and the Incas, and get all of those lands and golds, will they still interested to North America? Or we will see other power colonized it, like the Dutch maybe?

And I read somewhere that Spain were able to become so powerful in 16th and 17th century because of wealth from the New World...so if those wealth was flow to other European nations' coffers instead, what would be the effect to European affairs during 16th and 17th century?
 
I think Mexico will be too south and far for 16th century England.

So... France had better choice i guess.

The sailing times are almost identical, not to mention what really matters. It depends greatly on domestic matters, but France certainly has more distractions on the continent. England, meanwhile, is poor enough that returns from exploration could be truly significant.
 

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I do wonder, guys, if there were the English and the French who conquered the Aztecs and the Incas, and get all of those lands and golds, will they still interested to North America? Or we will see other power colonized it, like the Dutch maybe?

In OTL the Dutch came around in the 17th century, which is quite late, so we would probably see a small amount of French and English colonization in NA. But without Spain controlling the Americas, we might see an earlier, more unified United Provinces emerge, depends on the butterflies really.
 
I'm currently playing europa universalis 3, it so happens that Portugal is colonizing large chucks of america. Apparently spain has yet to get their acts together and the english crown is busying duking it out with the ottomans.
 
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