Lost the game
Banned
Inspired by another thread about a possible Inca Meiji. Would it be a possibility? The conquest of the Inca took place around the same time as the King's Great Matter, so odds are if Catherine of Aragon still doesn't pop out a boy and the Holy Roman Emperor still threatens to sack Rome if the Pope annuls his Aunt's marriage, so England probably still goes Protestant. Assuming Mary I is still barren, that means Liz I still becomes queen.
Could we then see the English flouting the Treaty of Tordesillas by trading with the Inca? English ships land in treaty ports open only to the English laden with European goods, especially guns and cannon, then set sail for China laden with silver from the mines of Potosi, then return to Europe laden with Chinese goods that make London one of the wealthiest cities in Europe.
Perhaps an alt-Sir Francis Drake (or someone in the same position as he) is knighted for opening the Inca to trade, and there's a famous painting of him in the court of the Sapa Inca.
Four centuries later and the Inca have one of the strongest cricket leagues outside of the Anglosphere
Could we then see the English flouting the Treaty of Tordesillas by trading with the Inca? English ships land in treaty ports open only to the English laden with European goods, especially guns and cannon, then set sail for China laden with silver from the mines of Potosi, then return to Europe laden with Chinese goods that make London one of the wealthiest cities in Europe.
Perhaps an alt-Sir Francis Drake (or someone in the same position as he) is knighted for opening the Inca to trade, and there's a famous painting of him in the court of the Sapa Inca.
Four centuries later and the Inca have one of the strongest cricket leagues outside of the Anglosphere