Latin America might see some revolts, most of an Autonomist character, and a few ones of an actually independentist character, but otherwise remains in the Spanish Crown. IOTL the real drive behind the 1810 Juntas was Ferdinand's abdication to Napoleon (seen as illegitimate) and later his choice...
I'm no expert, but if you can keep Chavez from being elected in 1999 Venezuela, the Cuban regime might be forced to democratize by 2005...
Now, a timeframe to ensure it happens in the early 1990s like Eastern Europe... no idea
A quicker resolution to the Gothic Wars could do the trick, leaving a not-devastated Italy could do wonders fot the Roman Economy IIRC, as well as it would have for manpower and to keep the Lombards at bay...
This Empire would still be locked into a deadly generation war against Persia, but it...
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Well, as a resident odd guy with a fondness for the Pre-Islamic Expansion history of the Mediterranean, and with the Germanic Kingdoms of the 6th century, I'm loving this
Back in 1932-33 there was a plan in Bavaria, a desperate plan to stall the rise of the Nazis. the idea? Crown Prince Rupprecht would be named Generalstaatskommissar of Bavaria, giving him near absolute power on the State. This plan was supported by pretty much everyone but the Nazis and the...
hmmm... Aristocratic Hitler in a (possibly) Survivng Austro-Hungarian Empire? interesting...
then again, we know not what the future might hold
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Sounds nice! but then we South American would have no other denonym for you than ''Americanos''! :eek:
I'll throw my lot here... you always can have an ''Assyria'' on OTL North Iraq and Syria...
as for Argentina, La Plata is the correct form... as in United Provinces of the Plate River...
exactly, as long as he
a) does not replace the ''legitimate'' King with his brother and
b) does not do anything that affect the Colonies
there is not much in 1808-10 for the Colonies to rebel yet... after all, it begun as Juntas against the Viceroys that declared for Joseph (Pepe Botellas)...
that is actually a rather good idea, while it might create some superstates a-la Gran Colombia, by then those might be more stable... you could also have Napoleon enter Spain without actually replacing the King with his brother and it would have a similar effect.
the other thing could be...
Yes, IOTL the Criollos had very little experience at governing, and were not educated to have a slight clue of what to do, for example, in Colombia, only the small difference between the Criollos of Bogota who wanted to simply topple the Viceroy and replace him themselves, and the Criollos of...
I think that allowing the Criollos, into at least small govt. positions would help a lot later, partly what happened to Latin America, was that the Criollos had good Generals (Bolivar, Santander, San Martin) but were awfully inept at actually governing, because all government posts were IIRC...
Well... it depends... a strong enough entity based out from Italy but blocked from Continental France by another entity, and wanting to project power into Iberia will find them quite useful, same thing backwards...
in the modern era, it could act as a unsinkable aircraft-carrier, let's say...