Editing Latinoamerica (section)

===Age of Empires===

By the Middle Ages some ethnic groups such as the Aztecs and the Incas have decided that theirs was (of course) the right way how things had to be done and began a process of building up empires, and all assorted activities such as road building, a better trained bureucracy, breakthroughs in mathemics and of course some ethnic cleansing and genocide to those who wouldn't agree (what, you really thought Europeans were the only ones doing these sort of things?).

In the North the great city of Tenochtitlan had grown upon the lake Texcoco, boasting a population of tens of thousands, from this supremely defensible position the Aztecs ensured the domain of tens of tribes and towns, promoting commerce, law peace and a bit of human sacrifice unless the Sun may die out. In the South the Incas conquered or convinced to join the Tawantinsuyo most of the Andean and coastal civilizations present in the region, they hold the record of achieving all of this without having invented the wheel or advanced in metallurgy beyond copper and gold, the guile historian points out this was simply because attempting to use carts in mountain terrain or exploit iron in a region where it wasn't easy to get it was simply impractical so they had to work around these problems.

Meanwhile the Mayans kingdoms continued their development, with written records showing a rather convoluted chronicle of kings waging wars among them and attempting to one up each other, this and the draining of natural resources resulted in a temporal decline which forced people out of some of the cities although civilization still held.

Beyond the Big Three tens of local cultures across the continent each made their own lives, sometimes waging tribal wars against each other, sometimes trading and sharing technologies and overall doing what humans do with all this "getting civilize" business.

By the fifteenth century things were going well, population was growing, roads were being built and commerce may soon ensure the local kickstart of the Iron Age, sure, both empires and the kingdoms had the occasional civil war, failed military operations, uprisings due some people not being quite happy about being taxed and forced to work for someone else, relocated from their lands or, in the case of the Aztecs, being sacrificed to some ferocious deity and so on, still, nothing extraordinary, in fact, quite similar to Antiquity in the Old World, then suddenly some very weird foreigners popped up from beyond the sea...