Alt history wiki

[AnotherPacifist]

This site sounds almost like RFC played out in detail! A collection of quotes from the Aztec alt-history:

* 1 Contents
* 2 Victory over Spain 1519-1612
* 3 The second Aztec - Spanish war 1612
* 4 The enlightenment
* 5 Alliance with the United States 1792
* 6 The years of prosperity 1800-1900
* 7 Conflict on the horizon 1920-1941
* 8 World War II 1939-1943
* 9 XXI Century

However the Aztecs, under the leadership of the new emperor Cuitláhuac, who successfully defeated the Spanish at the battle at the gates of Tenochtitlan in 1521. After the first Aztec Spanish War the Aztecs suffered greatly from Spanish introduced diseases, primarily smallpox. Eventually the Aztecs became immune to the disease, but only after 35% of the population had been wiped out. Despite all the human sacrifices, the priests could not stop the plague. Which led to a series of protests, and in the end, a massacre of all priests by the enraged population. This ended the priests’ power once and for all. Once the Aztecs had shaken off the effects of the plagues, they began an intense period of Modernization, realizing that they needed to modernize if the Spanish ever returned.

Gunpowder was in short supply though, as was metal, so traders from Britain and France traded weapons for gold. They also taught the Aztecs how to mine and smelt metal, and manufacture metal weapons and amour. Supplied with advanced weapons, the Aztecs went to war with, and defeated, the Confederacy of Tlaxcala. After the war, the Aztecs did not mass murder their prisoners of war, instead sending, them to work at the metal mines.

The Aztec empire had emerged stronger and now had a new valuable resources: Cannon and Horses.

Alliance with the United States 1792

During the Formation of the United States, the Aztecs supported this new nation, since they felt that a strong America would help them keep the European powers in check. Emperor Montezuma V sent a detachment of Aztec cavalry under George Washington's command. The Eagle warriors also helped the US.

On January 1943, the USA and Aztec Empire finished the Manhattan-Mixco Project;the First atomic bomb. They wasted no time in using it on Quito and Maachu Pichu, killing an est. 500,000 as well as Huasac, and forcing the Incas out of the war. MacArthur dictated peace terms to the acting chancellor, Huana Ata, which included retaining the emperor and a new constitution prohibiting war. But the Inca empire would still be occupied by Aztec and American forces to the present day.

 

[ZachScape]

Yeah... I love alternate history... especially AH maps. I am even creating my own TL, but I don't think I'll ever show it on the internet at least. But one thing that ALWAYS seems to show up and bother me is that the first world war always starts around 1914, and WWII starts in 1939. And most of the time, there is only two world wars, as opposed to 3 or even 1.
There is usually complete lack of the butterfly effect, as seen in the 191 series (which I plan on reading for my 11th grade summer reading project). How come (although I LOVE the counterparts aspect of the series) there are the same political figures in that as in real life. Who knows if Wilson would have gone into politics if the Confederacy had won, let alone be born at all?

Spoiler :

But my TL is based around William Sumner, one of my favorite US politicians. I am not going to go far into it (so I put in spoilers), but he had more influence. Fr and GB recognized the south after it appeared the US lost the Battle of Antietam (but they did not know Lee had been hunted down and killed). US gained better relations with Germany after the F-P War, Ottomans remained much stronger (due to the lack of pressure from Fr and GB), and US won substantial territory in Canada (about 2/5). Au-Hung turned into the USGA (United States of Greater Austria - act. proposed) because of better relations from US. Russia and Germany remained friends, and Italy stayed on the German side to gain territory from the Ottomans (yet they deeply hated USGA).
Russia had an even more humiliating defeat from Japan, too, because US wanted to hold out on the peace treaty because they thought their Russian friends could win the war. Even if they lost, they were friends with Japan, too. Russia ended up losing Outer Manchuria to an independent government. From foreign help, Russia won the civil war in 1923.

I haven't worked out all the kinks, but right now it's just about 4 maps (1867, 1921, 1921 alliance system, 1929).

But I liked that article, except the dates, and seemingly Buzzkill-mega-powerful Inca.

 

[Panopticon]

After the war, the Aztecs did not mass murder their prisoners of war, instead sending, them to work at the metal mines.

Um... that stretches the boundaries of realism!

It's a good story and sounds a lot like a game of RFC. However, it doesn't seem to follow the Two Iron Laws of Alt-History:
1. The Confederacy must win the American Civil War.
2. Germany must win the Second World War.

 

[Zagoroth]

Well those are the only alternate history people think about because they think only important things happen in the present. Of course technically, that is true...

 

[ZachScape]

But is SO much harder to go back before the 1700s, let alone hundreds are years earlier, and follow through to present day.
It is not just somebody is lazy, but say there was a crack in a single tile in the Himeji Castle in 1400... likely hood is that none of us would ever be born. Now imagine that crack is CC sinking in the middle of the Atlantic 200 km from the coast of Spain...