The border between Bolivia and Argentina is the result of the war of independence. Between 1810 and 1820 the border changed, until at some point it kind of stabilized where it did. At one point Patriot armies reached as far as the current Peruvian-Bolivian Border, only to be repelled by loyalist...
It is hard to say. New Spain probably, if it ever gets independence. The other vicerroyalties only if staying united seems essential to win the war and achieve indepencence.
As other have stated, I do not think Criollo elites in Buenos Aires or Santiago de Chile would be happy to be ruled from Mexico city, which was even farther from them tahn Spain (in terms of existing navigational routes).
Part of the reasons why vicerroyalties diveded in smaller states was due...
I think the answer to these questions depends what part of Latin America you are referring to, and what moment in time. If you take, for example, Argentina or Uruguay in the year 1900, I'd say they'd be worse in a surviving Spanish empire than as independent countries. Instead, in that same...
Well, it took a while to get Sweden, which is compatible with the tesis that crops travel more easily along the East-West axis than along the North-South one. The difficulty lies in explaining why it took so long to get established in Southern Irak, but there may be other explanations: it might...
I think it was the expected result. Latin America had a larger population at the time of colonization. It also had civilizations which were way more developped than those cultures living in North America. Also, colonization started way earlier, by 1550 most of current Latinamerican metropolis...
To have a country in the Sourh Cone whose capital is Cordoba is not impossible: there were many people who feared during the independence wars and the civil wars that having the capital in Buenos Aires would make that city too powerful, and wanted the capital anywhere but there. Having it in...
France acepted non French European immigrants in Argelia. I think the number of Spanish and Italian immigrants was closed or even surpassed the number of French immigrants. They might do the same in Australia. They may even let Germans in, Germany wasn't seen as a threat before 1870.
A few did. The Mapuche adapted and expanded westwards, and lasted till the late XIX century. But hey were chiefdoms, not states. An Inca stronghold resisted in the Andes till around 1570, but they were beaten. As you say, the speed of the conquest didn't give them time to adjust.
I was going to say those where the religion of settlers wasn't tolerated, but even this "rule" has exceptions. Practicaly no Protestants or Jews moved to Spanish America during the Spanish rule (~1500- ~1810/20), and only after freedom of religion was established (which didn't happen...
I don't think it is at all likely. While Uruguay was always more secular and liberal than its neighbors and it had a powerful Left since the 1930ies, those who advocated for a violent takover of power were a minority among the Left. The Leftist forces, in turn, didn't have enough votes to win an...
In my previous post I stated factors which could cause dissension and make the population restless. Many factors -including geography- make the region a place difficult to rule once the old sources of Power legitimacy are gone, as Independence wars showed IOTL.
However, the region also had...
I think a lot depends on how the British treat their new subjects. There are quite a few factors that could fuel dissension:
1) Religion
Spanish America was entirely Catholic. Both the upper classes and the lower classes were deeply religious. Outside port cities such us Buenos Aires or...
I do not think they could annex it, much less hold it. It was too distant from Brazilian population centers, it was separated from Rio by jungles, deserts and high mountains, its population was very different from Brazilan population... They might have gotten part of Bolivian lowlands, but never...
Would they findcthe gold and silver themselves? IOTL they never found the gold in California. If the people in the Andes are hunther gatheters without precious metals, the Spanish would ignore the area.
Of course, the Incas didn't invent everything, they wew the succesors of a long list of...