Islas Verdes

Republic of the Islas Verdes (Spanish: República de las Islas Verdes), is an island group in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Existing out of 4 large islands and approximately some 200 smaller coast islands. The capital city is Moncada, or Moncada. On the island of Isla Moncada.

The islands were first populated by the Taxecano civilization. Who got conquered by the Spanish during the Spanish Conquest of the Americas.

The current largest party in the parliament is the Verdesian Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Verdesiano) or PSV. With Maria Jesús González as president. In 2010 she won the elections and became the first female president of Islas Verdes since the declaration of Verdesian Indepedence in 1898 from Spain.

Pre-Columbian Era
In the Pre-Columbian era a large part of the islands were inhabited by the Taxecano peoples. A Mesoamerican civilization that is highly related to other Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Aztecs, Olmecs and Mayas. Just like other Mesoamerican civilizations, they build their temples ontop of pyramids, because they believed the higher you were from the ground, the closer you were to the gods. Human sacrifice might be their biggest ritual. Where they rippoed out someone's heart and represented it to the gods. They believed that a human's heart was the most sacred thing in the world, and by giving it to the gods they kept the gods alive. Something remarkable about these rituals is that the victims were mostly volunteers. According to the Taxecan Mythology, man kind was made by three gods, including Cuk'ul Katz (Taxecano designation for the Mayan god Kukulkán, and the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl), out of maize. Maize also was their biggest resource, and is used in almost every dish in the Taxecano cuisine. Just like most other Mesoamerican civilizations, the Taxecanos faced the end of their culture during the Spanish Conquest of the Americas.

Spanish Conquest
The Spanish Conquest of Islas Verdes began in 1518, starting with encounters and expeditions. The first attempted conquest happened in 1531, with the victory for the Taxecanos. Unfortunately for the Taxecanos, the Spanish brought diseases wich killed almost one-third of the Taxecano population. The Spanish, who highly underastimated the Taxecanos in the first battles, reinforced their troops to attack the Taxecanos again. It was not because of this that the Taxecanos lost most of the later battles. But the native population was dying by large numbers because of the diseases the Spanish brought from Europe, such as smallpox.