exploring the possibilities

Exploring The Possibilities : A Journey To The New World

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if the Spanish had not discovered America? If the answer is yes, let's explore some of hundreds of possibilities.
North America; a continent also known as the new world, bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea. Most of North America’s land area is now controled by Canada, The United States and Mexico but it has not always been that way.
As far as we know the first people to live in “North America” were the Paleoindians who start arriving during the last glacial period thanks to the Bering Land Bridge. They split in several groups around the area and became different cultures. The largest and most advanced civilizations were the Aztecs in what we now call Mexico and the Mayas in Central America.
European colonists began to arrive in the 16th century, but what would had happened with us if they had not? The first conclusion that comes to my mind is that we would be indians and speak our native languages. But that is not as likely since at that time France and England were as powerful as Spain. So if it was not Columbus the one to discover América in 1492, it surely would have been some british or french guy some years later.
If it had been England the country that discovered and conquered The Americas we would probably speak English instead of Spanish and our country’s economy would be probably better. On the other hand we have some other possible factors that are not as good, for example, Maybe all of our traditions and cultures would be forgotten by now, and we would not know anything about them, maybe Mexico and the United States would be a same huge country ruled or controlled by England.
But what if no one had ever found us? How would it be? Maybe we would be better, or maybe not, maybe our cultures would continue here and we would be ruled by emperors instead of a president, our clothes and traditions would also be different, our food and our religion, because there would be things we would not know, and people we would not know, like one of our independece heroes Miguel Hidalgo, of course our history would be completely different. Our country’s land area would be bigger because it would have never been sold.
Our economy is another important thing, we would have a better economy if the Spanish had not stolen our gold and exploded our sources. And of course Spain would have never been that powerful.

So now that we have some ideas of how our world would be like, we can create our own stories and maybe analyze what would have been better for us and for the world, or what would we prefer, would we have the same things and benefits? Or would we be the same people we are right now? Instead of our president Enrique Peña Nieto, would we have the Emperor Enrique Peña Nieto? Or maybe king? Would I be part of the royalty because of my last name? Well, we will never know that and so many other things.