hernán cortés

I just wanna preface this beforehand, this is my first post and I'm no professional. My research and what I say here isn't gonna be perfect, but I would appreciate some criticism on anything that seems implausible or downright wrong. That's all, now history. On August 13th, 1521 the Aztec...

Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado were some of the key figures of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, and later the early stages of the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. However, during the La Noche Triste, as the Spanish retreated from Tenochtitlan after the Spanish massacred Aztec nobles...

There are a bunch of threads on this site discussing the possibility of the Aztecs defeating Hernán Cortés and his native allies, the most common POD being a bigger victory at the Noche Triste where the Spaniards are completely massacred. However, many posters argue that, even if the invasion is...

What if the Aztecs had managed to score a total victory at La Noche Triste and effectively neutralize the threat posed by the Spanish and Tlaxcala force? I'm talking about depleting the force's numbers even further to the point where feasibly fighting would be much more difficult and killing or...

Title. I've looked all over the place but all I can find are discussion threads, not actual TLs. Any good ones?

Let's say that Cortés' expedition ends up in a total failure, as it might have had if the native allies Cortes found in Mexico were less friendly or if he failed to find a decent interpreter, and the Spanish authorities in Cuba care little since Cortes was a mutineer at that point. Let's then...

What if Hernán Cortés had been killed on La Noche Triste? How would things have changed?

Aztec army ultimately defeats Cortés in the Battle of Otumba. What happens next? Thank you.