The Andean Wars
From Alternative History
In 1492, Christopher Columbus went to the court of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, asking for help in an enterprise to sail west and reach the Indies. The sails for the four ships are destroyed in a horse carriage crash and the entire voyage is delayed six months. Columbus hits a force 5 hurricane just 50 miles away from the OTL Bahamas and his fleet is destroyed. He manages to ride a life boat for 8 months back and professes that he reached the end of the Civilized earth and there is no western sea routh to Asia. He is forced in disgrace back to Genoa.
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[edit] European Events
[edit] Spanish Civil War
The Spanish people, particularly in Castile and Grenada, began to fear Portugal's power overseas and rose up against the monarchies of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon. They are both killed in the mass rioting between 1493 and 1498. A group of revolutionaries try to set up a democratic government but are quickly silenced by various Spanish warring factions.
[edit] Islamic Invasion of Spain
In 1498, The Ottoman Empire who were moving through OTL North Africa at the time, were setting their sights on Spain. Led by Sultan ??, The Ottomans began a very long invasion of Spain and later, Portugal lasting from 1499 to 1562, creating The Sub-Caliphate of New Grenada and beginning the massive deportation of all Catholics to labor camps in The Moorish Kingdoms. The Christian, Spanish-speaking population of The Sub-Caliphate of New Grenada is decimated, never to return to their homeland.
[edit] Mediterranean: An Islamic Lake
After the final conquest of The Sub-Caliphate of New Grenada in 1561, The then intensly powerful Ottoman Empire was setting its sights on The Italian States and Southern France. Charles VII, The new king of France who had just destroyed the large British presence there but was now facing a Muslim Invasion up the Rhone River and through the Pyrenese Mountains. Muslims finally invaded both the Kingdom of Two Sicilies and southern France in 1611. Marsille in 1616, Naples in 1618, and other cities fell to the Ottoman Empire. They reached the outskirts of the Papal States by 1620. Charles VII died soon after the French Invasion of typhus. Sultan ?? also died on The Italian States Campaign, being shot by an Italian Cannon.
[edit] Russia Defeated
Shortly after the death of Sultan ??, the newly ascended Sultan Suliman I began to assemble his forces against Muscovy, which was the leading Russian state at the time. He assembled his armies of Jassinaries and allied themselves with Kazahk Khanate which knew much about winter warfare and staged the second successful winter invasion of Russia after the Mongols. It began in September of 1629 and ended in the spring of 1631. The Kazahk Khanate took most of western Russia, and the rest broke into many Russian States, led by Novogrod.
[edit] Formation of a European Alliance
Shortly after the initial invasion of France and The Italian States, King Henry IV, the step-son of recently passed away Charles VII, called together a council in Paris comprising of all major European powers, and are as following...
- France, where the assembly was being hosted.
- Britain, Where, although being racked with civil war, made the Ottoman Empire their common enemy.
- Austria, where their southern and eastern border was threatened by Muslims.
- The Teutonic Knights, whos Anti-Non-Catholic view, couples with they bieng surrounded by the Kazahk Khanate made the Ottoman Empire thier enemy.
- The Italian States, where half of their territories were invaded.
- Novogrod, whose southern border was bieng threatened by the Kazahk Khanate
These nations forged an alliance in 1634, called the United Europa Alliance and delared themselves common enemies of the Ottoman Empire. They began to assemble hundreds of thousands of troops to destroy the Muslim presence in Europe and OTL North Africa.
[edit] Counterstrike in the Meditterainian
The West Europa Alliance began to assemble huge armies to combat the new Ottoman presence in Europe. Hundreds of thousands of troops began the liberation of those invaded territories. The British landed all over The Sub-Caliphate of New Grenada and began their slow advance inward by 1650 and besieged Toledo by 1655. The Ottomans retreat to The Moorish Kingdoms. The Italian States, along with the rest of Europe, attack Tunis by 1658.
[edit] Counterstrike in Russia
Since the Kazahk Khanate destroyed Moscow and killed the Tsar back in 1631, the center of Russian power was in Novogrod which was growing in power after Moscovy's defeat. They along with troops from Austria began to take back territories to shrink the Kazahk Khanate back to its original size in Central Asia. In 1657, troops of the United Europa Alliance began the liberation of Kiev and many other Russian cities until the Kazahk Khanate surrendered and much like the Mongols before them, dispersed onto the steppe.
[edit] Ottoman Empire dissovled
Soon after the Ottomans were pushed out of southern and estern Europe, the Ottoman Empire began to crumble. The United Europa Alliance moved through the balkans quickly and granted Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia independence by 1689. The empire itself broke apart in 1712 and millions of Muslims fled west to Persia. France and Britain divided The Sub-Caliphate of New Grenada and most of The Moorish Kingdoms among themselves. The Muslim threat had disspated and European dominance could resume.
[edit] Andean Events
[edit] Aztec-Maya War
The Aztec Empire, in 1531 began to expand southward in search of new sacrifical victims for their Andean Religion. The Maya States who were just reviving out of a decline was awakened by a threat to their western border. The Aztec Empire province of Oaxaca. This province built on the export of Coco, and was cutting into the southern Maya States. Soon the two sides were at a war never seen before in Mesoamerica. The Maya, having suffered centuries of civil war were more accomplished worriers than the Aztec, but lacked the political organization to feed large armies Aztec. At the battle of Huehuetenango in 1538 General Tecún Umán successfully repelled the Aztec and pushed them back into the lowlands of Oxaca. Under the leadership of Montezuma IV and with the help of Cachiquel mercenaries, the Aztec reformed their out-of-date army and, using their numerical advantage, began another, this time successful assault on the Maya territories in 1554. Aztec froces entered Chichen Izta in 1560. The Maya leadership soon dispersed into the Chetumal Sea (OTLCarrebien).
[edit] Inca Sea Voyages
The Incan Empire began to expand out into the sea by building large Log Canoes and first discovering the Manarunasuyo (Quechua "no body's land"OTL Galapagos) and then expanding north and meeting with the Aztec Empire and their new conquests by 1581. The Incas soon traveled even farther west and through a grueling journey reached Cayapac Island (OTL Easter Island). There the natives were fighting each other viciously but settled their differences as the Incas began their colonization of the island. There the Incan Empire learned about the writing symbols Ronogongo and it began to be used as an official system for the emperor. Through trade and small skirmishes, the Aztec Empire and Maya States caught on and developed their own Ronogongo like styles. The Incan Empire also travels around the OTL Straight of Magellan and settles most of Southern Andes.
[edit] Jungle Peoples and Desert Towns
The Manioc States in the Antisuyu Forest(OTL Amazon), who was under vassal status of the Incan Empire began a revolt which the Incas could not put down but like the Maya States was forced to moved west. The Manioc States devoloped into a mosaic of very small but advanced states. The Manioc States began to use the wheel and iron, which through trade began to be used by the Incan Empire.
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