The Americas That Might Have Been: Native American Social Systems through Time

Imagines the development of the Western Hemisphere without European contact and colonization This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today—politically, economically, culturally—if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American peoples interact with the world’s other societies? It assumes that Columbus did not embark from Spain in 1492 and that no Europeans found or settled the New World afterward, leaving the peoples of the two American continents free to follow the natural course of their Native lives.The Americas That Might Have Been is a professional but layman- accessible, fact-based, nonfiction account of the major Native American political states that were thriving in the New World in 1492.

Granberry considers a contemporary New World in which the glories of Aztec Mexico, Maya Middle America, and Inca Peru survived intact.