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  1. Taunay

    WI: The Spanish didn't conquer the Inca Empire? How things would evolve to the Inca?

    It would make no sense for Spain to colonize Argentina, it only exists due to the conquest of the Inca Empire. Prior to that, there was zero interest in the Rio de la Plata. Now to the questions: I disagree with assertions that the silver was somehow bad. Yes it led Spain into wars, but some of...
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    De-colonization of Brazil if Pedro I sided with Portugal?

    It depends on whether the elites of Brazil (which tbf were fairly integrated into Portuguese politics and society) would feel that some equality between them and their Portuguese peers would exist. If it doesn't, Brazil would likely balkanize into multiple republics in the 1830s/40s. If it does...
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    Brazilian WI: the 1930 Revolution is a bloodier affair?

    A more authoritarian Vargas regime earlier also means that many achievements of the 1934 Constitution (such as the female right to vote and secret elections) would never exist - or would exist later. What matters more for me is how this regime will develop. Let's say that the regime lasts as...
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    Best Non-England Location for Industrialization?

    The fact that Europe imported major innovations from Asia and was obsessed with finding a route to India should also tell something
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    Best Non-England Location for Industrialization?

    I think a major problem is that people always tend to assume that Europe is somehow destined to become the center of the Industrial Revolution, even though they were a backwater for millenia. Song China could very well have industrialized, as could Bengal. If England managed to overcome its...
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    WI: Brazilian empire adopts a monarchist foreign policy on Latin America

    Let's say that either Pedro I wins the Cisplatine War (keeping the monarchy in Uruguay) OR he stops being unfaithful to his wife (which helps keep him in power for a little longer). Well, with Cisplatine still on Brazilian control, with Colonia and Montevidéu looking just over Buenos Aires, it...
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    WI: a diferent Pedro II of Brazil

    Had no idea of that, interesting Perhaps the Marquis of Paraná, Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão. He was a Moderate but by 1832, he had gradually turned to the right
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    WI: a diferent Pedro II of Brazil

    Feel free to do so! I'm a big fan of Brazilian Empire TLs, and it makes me sad that there's so few of them
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    WI: a diferent Pedro II of Brazil

    I agree with these PODs. But I have something to add, if you want a Pedro II that's different from OTL, you also need to change who tutors him ITTL. IOTL his first tutor was the Patriarch of Brazilian Independence José Bonifácio de Andrada, who held quite liberal views that may have influenced...
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    i want an opnion and critique about my timeline map

    Looks fine to me, and I appreciate American Canada
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    Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Why the Spanish name for a Brazilian?
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    No Iberian Union; Effects on Spanish and Portuguese Empires?

    Exactly, this whole idea that the Dutch are destined to steal Portuguese colonies is wrong and may come out of mismatched nationalism rather than actual facts.
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    No Iberian Union; Effects on Spanish and Portuguese Empires?

    Fair, but the reconquest of Pernambuco was made by the Luso-Brazilians in the region, for example, so the idea that Portugal will always get stomped by the Dutch in the Americas and Asia is a bit falacious. Especially as I mentioned that without the Portuguese Restoration War, Spain would have...
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    No Iberian Union; Effects on Spanish and Portuguese Empires?

    A surviving Avis dynasty would have better relations, as it historically did with the nobility (at least compared to the Braganzas) This "decade or two later" can make all the difference when it comes to how Portugal will develop, and without the disaster of the Spanish Armada - in which many...
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    No Iberian Union; Effects on Spanish and Portuguese Empires?

    Yes, but the Iberian Union accelerated this trend I tend to disagree, I don't know if the Dutch always wished to have a colonial empire. Also without the Iberian Union Spain will be more focused on fighting the Dutch in the 80 Years' War, as the Portuguese Restoration War wouldn't be happening...
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    What is a common thing or trope that always seem to happen?

    I think each house that ruled Spain/Portugal/England/France/Any other European country had its ups and downs, for Spain for example: Habsburgs: Advantages: - Very few rebellions in the colonies - Easier access to private loans Disadvantages: - Constant wars in Europe - Too much decentralization...
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    No Iberian Union; Effects on Spanish and Portuguese Empires?

    They wanted to. Nassau planned an invasion of Buenos Aires, but the WIC decided to attack Chile instead, with very few significant results. As for why they didn't attack it first, it was because Pernambuco was much more economically productive and beneficial to hold, due to its sugar-cane industry
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    No Iberian Union; Effects on Spanish and Portuguese Empires?

    I won't deny that sooner or later the Dutch/English would want to have direct control over Asia instead of relying on Portugal. But with England and the Netherlands being focused on their wars with the Habsburgs, there's no reason why they would attack a neutral or even allied Portugal at this...
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    No Iberian Union; Effects on Spanish and Portuguese Empires?

    I mean, - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%E2%80%93Portuguese_War So wihout the Iberian Union, it's likely that the Madre de Deus wouldn't be captured and that Dutch/English interest in the East wouldn't be as big. Also quoting from the Wiki:
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    Solano Lopez conquers Argentina

    This should be a TL
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