Latinoamerica

Latinoamerica, America Latina or the rest-of-the-american-continent-that-is-not-USA-or-Canada is a region of the world located in the southern section of the american continent, as other parts of the world this land has given their share of unique features and content to the cultural multiverse most of /tg/ guys dream about. As we are not Wikipedia and we never wanted to be anyway we will focus in those aspects we really care, namely their contribution to anything fantastic or scifi-related.

How it came to be

Long ago, when mankind was marching across the globe in mass-migrating tribes, some of them managed to get to the huge landmass which one day we will know as America, there these tribes established settlements which in some cases eventually grew into cities and then regional civilizations, each one developing their own trails but overall sharing the same "vibe", this is, a tendency for a massive brutal architectonic style, colorful geometric oriented designs and the tendency to a symbolic and stylized visual style which spoke of a deep and harsh connection with nature (but not in the tree-hugging way you may imagine).

While isolated from the rest of the world these pre-columbian civilizations managed to slowly advance in many cases into the Copper Age, creating in some cases glyph-base writing scriptures, irrigation channels and an impressive textile and metallurgic craftmanship, indeed, the lack of contact with other continents and the harsh geography hinted more advances, for example, things like wheels wouldn't work quite well in the Amazonian jungles, the Pacific deserts or the Andean chains.

Eventually when the european explorers the Aztecs, Mayans and Incans (the Big Three of the Pre-columbian World) had considerably bad odds, and while they managed to stand their ground for decades, eventually the fell to the continuous flux of european colonizers.

It's important to explain something here, while the spaniard conquistadores were brutal and inhuman in the process of conquests. in many cases toppling entire and killing entire tribes, they never intended to exterminate the native population, if at least because becoming the owner of your own patch of land and native tribe of labourers was a huge social leap (most of the colonists were indeed poor people indeed for a chance of social advancement) and the spaniard crown wanted subjects to fuel their quickly decaying realm. Most of the decimation was done

to be continued...