There's a sci-fi book called The Years of Rice and Salt, which is about a world in which 90% of Europe is wiped out by the Black Death. In that alt history, the Chinese are the first to reach Mesoamerica, and because they're not making a concerted effort to murder everything in sight, the indigenous people have time to organize and present a united front.
It also gets me that if there were horses in America civilizations would have been really fucking advanced
There's a sci-fi book called The Years of Rice and Salt, which is about a world in which 90% of Europe is wiped out by the Black Death. In that alt history, the Chinese are the first to reach Mesoamerica, and because they're not making a concerted effort to murder everything in sight, the indigenous people have time to organize and present a united front.