Talk:Montezuma's Revenge

"Cortez and Pizarro fail in their conquests of the Americas and to this day the powerful Aztec and Incan empires exist. The Mississippian Mound-Builders remained strong, and with the support of a technologically vitalized Aztec Empire fended off the attacking western cultures. Also, the enigmatic Anasazi exist to this day...somewhere in the Southwest."

Not sure, but what exactly is your POD? IIRC the Mississippian Mound-Builders and the Anasazi were extinct before the came in contact with the Europeans, so they would not be preserved by Cortez not conquering the Aztec.

OTOH, there were a lot of inestability in Mexico when Cortez came. Removing the Spaniards and the Aztec would probably survive one or two hundreds of years... much probably not to the present... and, even if Cortez failed, smallpox was there already... not a good factor for stability. Unless there would be some European interest in preserving an Aztec government...