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  1. Could the Incan Empire survive less the Spanish conquest?

    I totally agree. But in areas with similar cultures and traditions it's easier to unite people, even if there are rebellions from time to time. Given enough time and under different circumstances, the Incan empire could have become a more stable state in the Andes.

  2. Could the Incan Empire survive less the Spanish conquest?

    Yes, the civil war had ended... but a much bigger problem had begun: More than half of the kingdoms previously conquered by the Incas joined the Spanish, seeing them as liberators rather than the menace they were. Even some of the "Panaka", (the Incan royal lineages) joined the Spanish because...

  3. Ainu in the Americas

    But aren't farm animals the origin of old world diseases? And after some voyages, they would surely bring them.

  4. The Devil's Lands - Incas vs. Christians and Muslims

    Even if you made the Inca survive, they would stay in their frontiers, since their empire was at its limits... But they could turn into a world power with time

  5. The Most important event of the Past Millenium?

    I guess because domination doesn't mean the replacement of people and culture, even it it changed the cultures of the conquered peoples. And specially in the East, which wasn't dominated that much... Besides, from a non European point of view, there have been other factors that altered history...

  6. Is it possible for the death of a single peasant to change history appreciably?

    What if he was the ancestor of someone important? Maybe a famous artist? Or politician? Or whataver else? Maybe the ancestor of Napoleon? :p EDIT: Consider that he could be the ancestor of really many people after a few generations

  7. How Long Until History Fades into Legend?

    What if there's a pandemic disease that kills every human being on Earth, save those that are extremely isolated and still live in a stone-age culture?

  8. How Long Until History Fades into Legend?

    Only the interchange of ideas between different cultures is what helps the development of civilizations. Today many things seem too obvious or simple because we are used to see them, but it was hard when people didn't have all these images or ideas to invent something new. In fact, what's truly...

  9. 5 Most Vicious Civilizations

    We can say that many people from different civilizations have repeatedly done REALLY bad things, but you can't say that a civilization as a whole is or was vicious just because of that. Sometimes it's just individuals (who sometimes happen to be leaders) who do their "evil stuff", or sometimes...

  10. 5 Most Vicious Civilizations

    ...and then they fall. but humanity still advances, unless we become too brutal and end destroying everything. but we'll change. I just hope.

  11. 5 Most Vicious Civilizations

    I agree, but I think that ancient peoples did their thing because they had their own cosmogony, religions and their own ways to see the world; advancing from that to what we are today has always been a long and complex process.... But more modern cultures and peoples, even with their knowledge...

  12. 5 Most Vicious Civilizations

    This is very difficult... You could have mentioned lots of civilizations, because nasty things have happened everywhere. F.E. Mexicas had their ritual beliefs that make them seem vicious to us, but these kind of things contrast with their knowledge, cleverness, originality, inventiveness... so...

  13. American Indian discovery of Europe in late 15th century

    What if Inca Tupac Yupanqui had gone further... chroniclers reported him sailing to two islands far away in the Pacific ocean, using Peruvian coastal vessels, in a trip that lasted about a year... Of course he wouldn't have made it to Europe, but at least to continental "Old World". Note: It's...

  14. Greatest General in History?

    Genghis Khan Alexander the Great Tupac Yupanqui

  15. American Indian discovery of Europe in late 15th century

    The problem is... The problem is that every "old world" civilization had a frequent contact with each other, and they shared their technologies for a long time. Also, if you traced a map numbering all the western "superpowers" from the most ancient to the most recent (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete...

  16. Who was the greatest Pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy?

    Looks like Black Bart was he greatest...

  17. The Butterfly Effect - Overused?

    wow... i really mean wow...

  18. Throwing back the Europeans

    Totally agree. The best possibility is to change something in the European political scenario. What about a POD that causes the Spanish "reconquista" to slow down/stop? EDIT: I just thought of another possibility. What if the Inca and Aztec empires (or at least one of them) never formed?

  19. Throwing back the Europeans

    The Cañari, Huanca and Huayla kingdoms (in the Andes) also coopt. with the Spaniards to thwart Manco Inca II's plans to throw the invaders away. Had they not arrived to the siege of Lima in time, history would have changed, with all the conquistadors annihilated (But the Spaniards might have...

  20. What if North & South America were never colonized?

    Yes, the chances are that they would still do it. However, any change in the way and time they colonize the continent would have resulted in big differences in history as we know, specially in those areas where advanced civilizations flourished. Even the cultures would be very different, more...
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