portugal wank

What are the series of PoDs that could end up resulting in Iberia looking something like this by the end of the Reconquista (1492)? There are only 3 conditions to be met to arrive at this scenario: 1- At one point, Portugal will inherit the throne of Leon and dominate the union; 2- Castile and...

In 1759, following a supposed regicide, José I of Portugal decreed the expulsion of Jesuits from the entire Portuguese Empire. However, there was some serious opposition to these plans, and there were rumors that a possible new assassination attempt could happen against José I. WI this were the...

"Where are we going?" "To the Church, there is something I need to do before..." "Before you depart" "I know" "Why is it this late at night though? What could be so important you'd need the sky to be covered in darkness to keep it a secret" "I...I might not come back, not alive anyway...

With a POD of 1480, besides Brazil and its African and Asian territories, could Portugal have other colonies? Before anyone talks about how they couldn't do that because of demographics, you're wrong, @Viriato has consistently shown that Portugal had an enormous amount of settlers and extremely...

With a POD in 1820, how can we have the population of Brazil, by 2020, be bigger than OTL (212 million) and what PODs are necessary to achieve this? @Vinization @Gukpard @Guilherme Loureiro @unprincipled peter @Galba Otho Vitelius

Luís de Meneses, 3rd count of Ericeira, was a Portuguese noble and statesman who served as the king Pedro II's minister of finance from 1675 until his untimely death in 1690. During his time in office he pursued a mercantilist economic policy, banning or limiting the imports of certain products...

Bartolomeu de Gusmão was a Luso-Brazilian priest who, among other things, made the first serious attempt to create a hot air balloon in 1709, more than seventy years before the Montgolfier brothers' successful experiments. Unfortunately, not only did his demonstrations fail to impress the...

When it comes to the Iberian Union, there's much discussion about how it impacted both the countries of Portugal and Spain. However, what's often overlooked is how the Iberian Union impacted the colonial empire of Portugal. Specifically, was the Iberian Union a net good or was it negative when...

Is it possible to screw Spain (and especially the size of its colonial empire) whilst wanking Portugal (and its colonial empire) to a point where the number of people who speak Portuguese is just as big as or even bigger than the Hispanophone population? Obviously I do not think it's possible...

So I found out about this in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luso-Sundanese_padr%C3%A3o What if the Portuguese fulfilled their promise and built a fortress in Sunda Kalapa? Could they assist the Sunda kingdom in the war against the Sultanate of Demak, and if so, would it gradually fall...

How would Portugal and her colonies develop without this conflict? For a POD I can think of two immediately that work. 1. No Iberian Union, either Sebastian does not perish in a war with Morocco, or someone other than Phillip manages to inherit the kingdom. 2. The Netherlands is not inherited...

I'm talking about this guy, who was the son of king João III and died at the age of 16 from either tuberculosis or diabetes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Manuel,_Prince_of_Portugal Let's say he's a bit healthier and succeeds his father whem he passes away in 1557. I assume his reign...

Portugal had one of the most accomplished histories in the age of exploration, being the first into India and China, as well as the first large-scale colonies in Africa. This is to say nothing of how they started the expeditions in the first place or Brazil. Which also exists. But I want to know...

So the title states clearly the challenge, but it is lets say a multitiered challenge, it can be made under any kind of circumstances and events possible, it could be an imperial capital city of a united iberian nation, a city state, having OTL borders, some spanish autonomy becoming independent...

Portugal has three very important distinctions in the age of exploration: starting it, reaching India before any other european, and the only European territory in China prior to the 19th century; Macau. But Macau was still only one city, and what's a city to a massive island? Your goal, with a...

Despite facing backlash and criticism both at home and abroad over the wars in Angola, Guinea & Mozambique, the Portuguese Armed Forces were reported to have been rather successful on the battlefield in at least 2 out of the 3 theaters...