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  1. Plausibility Check-Llamas introduced to Mesoamerica

    We had a productive thread on this subject a few years ago, but after recently revisiting some old notes of mine, I thought I'd canvass some opinions to see how possible/plausible people would find such an event occurring, and if it did occur, how far some sort of llama pastoralism could spread...

  2. Túpac Amaru escaped the Spanish?

    Disclaimer, I'm talking about this guy, not the 18th century rebel leader. Túpac Amaru was the last Sapa Inca of Vilcabamba, the city that resisted the Spanish conquest for decades after the fall of the Inca Empire. Following one final Spanish offensive to conquer Vilcabamba once and for all in...

  3. Apus of the Ocean: A Timeline Concept

    Consider the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_rafts If you read the article, there is plenty of evidence that Andean seafaring capabilities were much more developed than usually thought. In fact, the first contact between the Spanish and the Inca was with an ocean-going...
  4. Light Jammings

    WI/AHC: Neo-Inca state Survival?

    As it says on the tin. Is it possible for the Neo-Inca to sucessfully resist the Spanish at least to the degree the Maya did? AFAIK it took 20 years for the Neo-Inca to bridge the gap in technology. So, is it plausible?

  5. AHC Majority indigenous Peru by the 2000? Pod after Independence.

    The Bolivian census of 2001 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivians#Ethnic_groups) showed: 60% Indigenous 26% Mestizo and almost 13% white. While the 2017 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvians#Ethnic_structure_of_Peru , couldn't find one from the 2000's) Peruvian census give us: 24%...

  6. WI: No Inca Empire

    What if the Inca Empire never existed? How might things have changed?
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