What If America Was Never Colonized? | Alternate History

What if North and South America were never colonized by Europe? Which of the indigenous tribes, nations, and civilizations will prove advanced enough to rise as the new superpowers of these continents?
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[MonsieurDean]

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[patriotdream]

The followup to this video is, "What if the Americas Discovered Europe?"

[chillylagarto]

As a Not well known indigenous civilization that I feel is sometimes overlooked is the Mapuche peoples in the Southern Tip of South America. Even in our History they resisted Spanish incursions for about 300 years, killing more Spanish Conquistadors there than the rest of the Americas combined, using tactics and weaponry the Spanish brought. Even managing to fight the Incas to a stalemate.

However it is something to be said that outside of foreign invasion the different Mapuche tribes regularly engaged in war with each other, meaning that while they almost perpetually have experienced warriors.

Many say that the Mapuche could be compared to the Germanic tribes during the time of the Roman Empire, being a people that is nearly impossible to submit but probably won't develop into a traditional Civilization.

[SofronPolitis]

On the other side of the ocean:

- The potato is unknown, Europe, especially in the North, keeps relying on wheat for subsistence, its population grows more slowly and the continent's demographic centre remains the Mediterranean.
- The European economy is not flooded with gold and silver, trade with India expands more slowly, the medieval aristocracy of land is not shaken that fast by an aristocracy of money.
- Related to the above, Europe's lack of precious metals leads perhaps to an earlier European focus on gold-rich Eastern Africa.
- The minds of the people are not troubled by weird animals, exotic people who live in a "state of nature", or news that the Earth was circumnavigated. Challenges to the biblical view of the world are weaker.
- There is no American exile for religious dissidents. Radical protestants remain in Europe, facing repression, worsening the social instability caused by the Reformation, and making the states they live in more authoritarian as they have to keep the troublemakers down.

[nikolajsteffensen]

okay so hear me out. what. if this all happened in the same timeline as "what if byzantium survived"

[RichardWagnerEnjoyer]

there must be a part 2, this was too good. Also important thing to note is that its theorized that the Mississippian mound builders after falling evolved into the 5 civilized tribes, the Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw and the Seminole. They could also make a good addition to this scenario. Perhaps one where they take the torch of the mound builders civilization and recreate it.

[Mr.Flame]

What if islam never spread out of arabia, that would be an interesting timeline as it involves a lots of countries

[shinkisaragi]

Me being of Tarascan ( Purepecha) Descent it feels good To know someone is acknowledging my culture and the Accomplishments my ancestors did because we are often over looked In the pages of precolonial Mexican history and Even in modern indigenous American literature

[zionmolina]

Do, What if The Mongols conquered Japan.

[tsdobbi]

"The Aztecs were a loose alliance of subject city states" I don't think alot of people realize that is literally what Rome was until shortly before the transition from republic to empire. It really didn't change until the Social war of 91 BC. The "subject" cities in Italy wanted Roman citizenship. Ultimately they were granted their request and Italy was actually united as Roman territory. Prior to that, actual Roman territory really only consisted of Latium. So from a political point of view the Aztecs at this time were probably on par with late republic Rome.

[lorriemiller]

Not all Native American tribes were Stone Age cultures at all some were silversmiths and had elaborate cultures in terms of religion rituals, mythologies etc. They were not all entirely primitive at all. Some built housing and they knew how to hunt, fish, farming, and they also could firm confederations and alliances. They had more than stone age abilities for the majority of Native American tribes.

[crimsonterror]

This is, by far, the best prediction I've ever seen about this subject.

[EvilParagon]

This could be a good scenario to mix with the Viking Permanent Settlement one.
Since the Vikings have... what... 400 year headstart? Maybe the Iroquois don't exist, and horses flourish throughout the continent allowing for _mass_ empire building.

[benjamingrist]

I think the tribe known only as the Mound Builders would have been a huge player in this world as well. Archeological evidence suggests that they controlled the Mississippi River and its eastern subsidiaries, as well as huge swathes of the midwest and southern regions of what is now the US.

[willhiggins]

The Natives to get the respect they deserve in history.
This was a nice video.

[icyguy]

What if the Ottoman Empire modernized and didn't collapse?

[HaloisTight]

What if the Australian Megafauna of the Pliocene and the Pleistocene never went extinct?

[specialistwafer]

What if the Spartacist Uprising had succeeded?

[aragornii]

I am from Michoacán. I appreciate covering the Tarascan state.

[wargriffin]

So even if the new world wasn't colonized, you STILL have the foundations of a powerful federation of states forming east of the Mississippi, near the Great Lakes? Very interesting...