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However in the Americas, while Cortes is a great general, his policies are a little more controversal. He's a zealous Catholic and does whatever is possible in pissing off the native population and show his superiority compared to them. Told through a combination of small stories and your average history textbook. Various characters include the ruler Cortes, the commanders Alvarado, Pizarro, Olid, Cortes' former mistress [[UsefulNotes/LaMalinche Malinali]], his queen Isabel, the priest turned Patriarch Geronomio de Aguilar and various other individuals.
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However in the Americas, while Cortes is a great general, his policies are a little more controversal. He's a zealous Catholic and does whatever is possible in pissing off the native population and show his superiority compared to them. Told through a combination of small stories and your average history textbook. Various characters include the ruler Cortes, the commanders Alvarado, UsefulNotes/PedroDeAlvarado, Pizarro, Olid, Cortes' former mistress [[UsefulNotes/LaMalinche Malinali]], his queen Isabel, the priest turned Patriarch Geronomio Geronimo de Aguilar and various other individuals.
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The time-line begins with a slow start. It starts off with Cortes preparing for his expedition to Mexico though small changes already come in. He arrives with more money and troops, giving him much more luck in conquering the natives. Fast forward to 1520, he conquers Tenochtitlan rather early and leaves the town and its surviving inhabitants more or less intact instead of destroying them. The time-line then branches off to multiple fronts, covering the changes in Europe, the Americas and in Asia. Charles V manages to kick Francois I of France's ass much harder after the battle of Pavia leaving the man imprisoned where he dies, leaving his brother in law Henry of Navarre to take the throne in his place, as a stooge to Charles. The Mughals get rounded up and beaten in Panipat by the Delhi Sultanate who in turn get beaten by Rajputs. Portugal has better luck starting up relations with Ming China and sets up colonial ports all over the country, monopolizing on trade.
However in the Americas, while Cortes is a great general, his policies are a little more controversal. He's a zealous Catholic and does whatever is possible in pissing off the native population and show his superiority compared to them. Told through a combination of small stories and your average history textbook. Various characters include the ruler Cortes, the commanders Alvarado, Pizarro, Olid, Cortes' former mistress Malinali, his queen Isabel, the priest turned Patriarch Geronomio de Aguilar and various other individuals.
However in the Americas, while Cortes is a great general, his policies are a little more controversal. He's a zealous Catholic and does whatever is possible in pissing off the native population and show his superiority compared to them. Told through a combination of small stories and your average history textbook. Various characters include the ruler Cortes, the commanders Alvarado, Pizarro, Olid, Cortes' former mistress Malinali, his queen Isabel, the priest turned Patriarch Geronomio de Aguilar and various other individuals.
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The time-line begins with a slow start. It starts off with Cortes preparing for his expedition to Mexico though small changes already come in. He arrives with more money and troops, giving him much more luck in conquering the natives. Fast forward to 1520, he conquers Tenochtitlan rather early and leaves the town and its surviving inhabitants more or less intact instead of destroying them. The time-line then branches off to multiple fronts, covering the changes in Europe, the Americas and in Asia. Charles V UsefulNotes/CharlesV manages to kick Francois I of France's ass much harder after the battle of Pavia leaving the man imprisoned where he dies, leaving his brother in law Henry of Navarre to take the throne in his place, as a stooge to Charles. The Mughals get rounded up and beaten in Panipat by the Delhi Sultanate who in turn get beaten by Rajputs. Portugal has better luck starting up relations with Ming China and sets up colonial ports all over the country, monopolizing on trade.
However in the Americas, while Cortes is a great general, his policies are a little more controversal. He's a zealous Catholic and does whatever is possible in pissing off the native population and show his superiority compared to them. Told through a combination of small stories and your average history textbook. Various characters include the ruler Cortes, the commanders Alvarado, Pizarro, Olid, Cortes' former mistressMalinali, [[UsefulNotes/LaMalinche Malinali]], his queen Isabel, the priest turned Patriarch Geronomio de Aguilar and various other individuals.
However in the Americas, while Cortes is a great general, his policies are a little more controversal. He's a zealous Catholic and does whatever is possible in pissing off the native population and show his superiority compared to them. Told through a combination of small stories and your average history textbook. Various characters include the ruler Cortes, the commanders Alvarado, Pizarro, Olid, Cortes' former mistress
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* TheSavageIndian: Played straight with the Aztecs and the Taino.
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* TheSavageIndian: Played straight with the Aztecs and the Taino.[[Myth/TainoMythology Taino]].
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* HijackedByJesus: Played straight with the pyramids of Tenochtitlan which are converted, on Cortés' orders, to become churches. Same could be said for the local variant of Catholicism that is practiced in the Empire and the Aztec mythology.
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* HijackedByJesus: Played straight with the pyramids of Tenochtitlan which are converted, on Cortés' orders, to become churches. Same could be said for the local variant of Catholicism that is practiced in the Empire and the Aztec mythology.Myth/AztecMythology.
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''The Navatlacas: Heirs to Hernan and Montezuma'' is an Alternate History where UsefulNotes/HernanCortes overthrows the Aztecs and instead of leaving it for the King of Spain, misunderstandings between the two of them leaves Hernan into forming his own empire in the Americas. [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=168276 Read it here]].
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''The Navatlacas: Heirs to Hernan and Montezuma'' is an Alternate History where UsefulNotes/HernanCortes UsefulNotes/HernanCortez overthrows the Aztecs and instead of leaving it for the King of Spain, misunderstandings between the two of them leaves Hernan into forming his own empire in the Americas. [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=168276 Read it here]].
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''The Navatlacas: Heirs to Hernan and Montezuma'' is an Alternate History where Hernan Cortes UsefulNotes/HernanCortes overthrows the Aztecs and instead of leaving it for the King of Spain, misunderstandings between the two of them leaves Hernan into forming his own empire in the Americas. [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=168276 Read it here]].
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* AlternateHistoryWank: Inverted into AlternateHistoryScrew in various occassions.
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* TheRenaissance: Begins around this period though it branches off from there.
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* {{Badass}}: Cortés himself, of course, but YouShouldKnowThisAlready. Qualifies by virtue of his insane ambition and charisma in taking over Mesoamerica and claiming it for himself. Other contenders to the title are Alvarado, Pizzaro, and Olid, Cortes's commanders.
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''The Navatlacas: Heirs to Hernan and Montezuma'' is an Alternate History where Hernan Cortes overthrows the Aztecs and instead of leaving it for the King of Spain, misunderstandings between the two of them leaves Hernan into forming his own empire in the Americas. [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=168276 Read it here]].
The time-line begins with a slow start. It starts off with Cortes preparing for his expedition to Mexico though small changes already come in. He arrives with more money and troops, giving him much more luck in conquering the natives. Fast forward to 1520, he conquers Tenochtitlan rather early and leaves the town and its surviving inhabitants more or less intact instead of destroying them. The time-line then branches off to multiple fronts, covering the changes in Europe, the Americas and in Asia. Charles V manages to kick Francois I of France's ass much harder after the battle of Pavia leaving the man imprisoned where he dies, leaving his brother in law Henry of Navarre to take the throne in his place, as a stooge to Charles. The Mughals get rounded up and beaten in Panipat by the Delhi Sultanate who in turn get beaten by Rajputs. Portugal has better luck starting up relations with Ming China and sets up colonial ports all over the country, monopolizing on trade.
However in the Americas, while Cortes is a great general, his policies are a little more controversal. He's a zealous Catholic and does whatever is possible in pissing off the native population and show his superiority compared to them. Told through a combination of small stories and your average history textbook. Various characters include the ruler Cortes, the commanders Alvarado, Pizarro, Olid, Cortes' former mistress Malinali, his queen Isabel, the priest turned Patriarch Geronomio de Aguilar and various other individuals.
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!!Tropes:
* AllohistoricalAllusion: Do you want hope and change with that Obama car?
* AlternateHistory: A clear-cut and excellent example of such.
* AlternateHistoryWank: Inverted into AlternateHistoryScrew in various occassions.
* AmazonBrigade: Played straight with the Zihuatlánas.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Can be argued for Cortés and Olid.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Cortés cements himself as Lord-Speaker of the Aztecs through smashing all those who stands before him, even fellow Spaniards.
* {{Badass}}: Cortés himself, of course, but YouShouldKnowThisAlready. Qualifies by virtue of his insane ambition and charisma in taking over Mesoamerica and claiming it for himself. Other contenders to the title are Alvarado, Pizzaro, and Olid, Cortes's commanders.
* BalanceOfPower: The Pope's foreign policy emphasizes that the major powers of Europe (Holy Roman Empire, Spain, France, etc.) do not get too powerful at the expense of hiw own influence in Italy.
* BeamMeUpScotty: An in-universe example. The historians of the Navatlacas highly doubt that Cortés gave an epic, Shakespearean speech when declaring independence from Spain.
* TheCavalry: Played straight with his army saving Don Pedro and his Juārdiyās from slaughter.
* TheChessmaster: Played straight with Cortés and to a lesser degree Olid. How else were they able to get where they were?
* TheChurch: Who else but the Roman Catholic Church?
* CityOfGold:
** The Spanish sent numerous expeditions into the Americas looking for Cibola, the fabled City of Gold. Ironically, the natives of one tribe they worked to death mining for gold were sitting on a treasure unaccountably vast: all of the natives' jewelry was made of platinum, which the Spanish conquistadors considered worthless silver Rocks and threw vast quantities of platinum in the Amazon river looking for the "good stuff". Problem was, only the natives knew how to work platinum, and they were all dead.
** Also played straight with the Navatlacas at the beginning,
* ChildSoldiers: Jenizários start out like this.
* {{Determinator}}: Most definitely Cortés, in both RealLife and this AlternateHistory. Taking only a few hundred men and forging an empire the kind of which the world has never seen through sheer will, Cortes is an excellent example of this kind of trope. His men probably qualify as well, going into an alien world most of them have never been too, and conquering ALL of it.
* TheEmpire: None other than the *HolyRomanEmpire.
* FolkHero: The author himself notes that Cortés essentially turns into a murderous, conniving, and utterly ambitious George Washington for the Navatlaca people.
* ForWantOfANail: Must have been some misunderstanding between Charles and Cortés. WhatAnIdiot.
* GoingNative: What most of Europe fears Cortés and his men have done. In practice, they have, by orders of Cortes himself, taking Aztec wives, and adopting some of the local customs. Played straight with Gonzalo Guerrero, one of the shipwrecked Spanish sailors that Cortés encountered on his expedition. Unlike Aguilar, Guerrero opted to stay with the Maya.
* GreenEyedMonster: Possibly one of the reasons why Olid went all Starscream on Cortés.
* HijackedByJesus: Played straight with the pyramids of Tenochtitlan which are converted, on Cortés' orders, to become churches. Same could be said for the local variant of Catholicism that is practiced in the Empire and the Aztec mythology.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Played straight with Diego Colón and Cortés.
* HumanSacrifice: Firmly outlawed and crushed by Cortes's men, and one of the few customs of the natives that Cortes makes sure ends.
* IncestIsRelative: Played straight with the Hapsburgs.
* LadyOfWar: Is played straight and justified with Bagua Maorocoti.
* MightyWhitey: Essentially what the conquerors of the Aztecs are, but due to ethnic assimilation, they will no longer be so in a few generations.
* NobleSavage: Subverted with Bagua Maorocoti and the Taino.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: By virtue of not being real-life history, this trope is in full effect, especially in what would normally be Mexico and the Central American nations. Of special note is that the author uses a Nahuatl (the Aztec name for their language) Wiki for the names used in his story.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. Big time.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Happens with Nordamerika as witnessed in the ''Tales of the Navatlacas: Heirs to Hernan and Montezuma'' spinoff thread.
* PraetorianGuard: Eventually down the road, the Navatlaca Empire's Jenizários become this.
* TheRenaissance: Begins around this period though it branches off from there.
* TheSavageIndian: Played straight with the Aztecs and the Taino.
* ShownTheirWork
* {{Spexico}}: There's considerable cross-fertilization between the cultures of the Spaniards and the Mesoamerican peoples in the Navatlaca empire. The country enjoys churros and hot chocolate while bullfighting remains popular.
* TheStarscream: Olid. Here is a man who is among the most skilled and competent of the Spaniard nobility in Mesoamerica. Yet he backstabs Cortes, and using the conquerer's own tactic, carves a kingdom under Cortes's nose.
* VestigialEmpire: Will be played straight with the Ottomans.
* WarIsHell: Played straight.
* WhatIf: Cortés created an empire in Mesoamerica for himself?
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The time-line begins with a slow start. It starts off with Cortes preparing for his expedition to Mexico though small changes already come in. He arrives with more money and troops, giving him much more luck in conquering the natives. Fast forward to 1520, he conquers Tenochtitlan rather early and leaves the town and its surviving inhabitants more or less intact instead of destroying them. The time-line then branches off to multiple fronts, covering the changes in Europe, the Americas and in Asia. Charles V manages to kick Francois I of France's ass much harder after the battle of Pavia leaving the man imprisoned where he dies, leaving his brother in law Henry of Navarre to take the throne in his place, as a stooge to Charles. The Mughals get rounded up and beaten in Panipat by the Delhi Sultanate who in turn get beaten by Rajputs. Portugal has better luck starting up relations with Ming China and sets up colonial ports all over the country, monopolizing on trade.
However in the Americas, while Cortes is a great general, his policies are a little more controversal. He's a zealous Catholic and does whatever is possible in pissing off the native population and show his superiority compared to them. Told through a combination of small stories and your average history textbook. Various characters include the ruler Cortes, the commanders Alvarado, Pizarro, Olid, Cortes' former mistress Malinali, his queen Isabel, the priest turned Patriarch Geronomio de Aguilar and various other individuals.
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!!Tropes:
* AllohistoricalAllusion: Do you want hope and change with that Obama car?
* AlternateHistory: A clear-cut and excellent example of such.
* AlternateHistoryWank: Inverted into AlternateHistoryScrew in various occassions.
* AmazonBrigade: Played straight with the Zihuatlánas.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Can be argued for Cortés and Olid.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Cortés cements himself as Lord-Speaker of the Aztecs through smashing all those who stands before him, even fellow Spaniards.
* {{Badass}}: Cortés himself, of course, but YouShouldKnowThisAlready. Qualifies by virtue of his insane ambition and charisma in taking over Mesoamerica and claiming it for himself. Other contenders to the title are Alvarado, Pizzaro, and Olid, Cortes's commanders.
* BalanceOfPower: The Pope's foreign policy emphasizes that the major powers of Europe (Holy Roman Empire, Spain, France, etc.) do not get too powerful at the expense of hiw own influence in Italy.
* BeamMeUpScotty: An in-universe example. The historians of the Navatlacas highly doubt that Cortés gave an epic, Shakespearean speech when declaring independence from Spain.
* TheCavalry: Played straight with his army saving Don Pedro and his Juārdiyās from slaughter.
* TheChessmaster: Played straight with Cortés and to a lesser degree Olid. How else were they able to get where they were?
* TheChurch: Who else but the Roman Catholic Church?
* CityOfGold:
** The Spanish sent numerous expeditions into the Americas looking for Cibola, the fabled City of Gold. Ironically, the natives of one tribe they worked to death mining for gold were sitting on a treasure unaccountably vast: all of the natives' jewelry was made of platinum, which the Spanish conquistadors considered worthless silver Rocks and threw vast quantities of platinum in the Amazon river looking for the "good stuff". Problem was, only the natives knew how to work platinum, and they were all dead.
** Also played straight with the Navatlacas at the beginning,
* ChildSoldiers: Jenizários start out like this.
* {{Determinator}}: Most definitely Cortés, in both RealLife and this AlternateHistory. Taking only a few hundred men and forging an empire the kind of which the world has never seen through sheer will, Cortes is an excellent example of this kind of trope. His men probably qualify as well, going into an alien world most of them have never been too, and conquering ALL of it.
* TheEmpire: None other than the *HolyRomanEmpire.
* FolkHero: The author himself notes that Cortés essentially turns into a murderous, conniving, and utterly ambitious George Washington for the Navatlaca people.
* ForWantOfANail: Must have been some misunderstanding between Charles and Cortés. WhatAnIdiot.
* GoingNative: What most of Europe fears Cortés and his men have done. In practice, they have, by orders of Cortes himself, taking Aztec wives, and adopting some of the local customs. Played straight with Gonzalo Guerrero, one of the shipwrecked Spanish sailors that Cortés encountered on his expedition. Unlike Aguilar, Guerrero opted to stay with the Maya.
* GreenEyedMonster: Possibly one of the reasons why Olid went all Starscream on Cortés.
* HijackedByJesus: Played straight with the pyramids of Tenochtitlan which are converted, on Cortés' orders, to become churches. Same could be said for the local variant of Catholicism that is practiced in the Empire and the Aztec mythology.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Played straight with Diego Colón and Cortés.
* HumanSacrifice: Firmly outlawed and crushed by Cortes's men, and one of the few customs of the natives that Cortes makes sure ends.
* IncestIsRelative: Played straight with the Hapsburgs.
* LadyOfWar: Is played straight and justified with Bagua Maorocoti.
* MightyWhitey: Essentially what the conquerors of the Aztecs are, but due to ethnic assimilation, they will no longer be so in a few generations.
* NobleSavage: Subverted with Bagua Maorocoti and the Taino.
* IstanbulNotConstantinople: By virtue of not being real-life history, this trope is in full effect, especially in what would normally be Mexico and the Central American nations. Of special note is that the author uses a Nahuatl (the Aztec name for their language) Wiki for the names used in his story.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. Big time.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Happens with Nordamerika as witnessed in the ''Tales of the Navatlacas: Heirs to Hernan and Montezuma'' spinoff thread.
* PraetorianGuard: Eventually down the road, the Navatlaca Empire's Jenizários become this.
* TheRenaissance: Begins around this period though it branches off from there.
* TheSavageIndian: Played straight with the Aztecs and the Taino.
* ShownTheirWork
* {{Spexico}}: There's considerable cross-fertilization between the cultures of the Spaniards and the Mesoamerican peoples in the Navatlaca empire. The country enjoys churros and hot chocolate while bullfighting remains popular.
* TheStarscream: Olid. Here is a man who is among the most skilled and competent of the Spaniard nobility in Mesoamerica. Yet he backstabs Cortes, and using the conquerer's own tactic, carves a kingdom under Cortes's nose.
* VestigialEmpire: Will be played straight with the Ottomans.
* WarIsHell: Played straight.
* WhatIf: Cortés created an empire in Mesoamerica for himself?
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