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I was scrolling by a few threads here since I'm intrigued at the idea of a nation like Germany, the United Kingdom, or France being the first nation to develop socialism as opposed to Russia. Then I thought about Western European nations to develop socialism first, and the two I thought were...

Scenario: The Iberian peninsula is united under a single flag sometime before 1492. Main question: How does this affect the colonization of the New World? Without Portugal and Spain separated, there's no direct competition for those lands, Iberia would be the only empire in the world that can...

I recently found out about this yesterday and was wondering how this would play out if it worked? The Andalusian Independentist Conspiracy was a plan created Duke Gaspar Alonso Perez de Guzman and Francisco Manuel Silvestre de Guzmán to revolt against Spain and create an independent kingdom in...

What if in the uniting of the crowns Castille and Aragon, the rulers decided to adopt Catalan as the main language? After all Catalan was very prestigious in the Middle Ages, more so than Castilian Spanish. Could Catalan successfully spread and supplant Castilian Spanish? Would most of Spain be...

It has been said that the islands of the Philippines was on the verge of adopting Islam (like Indonesia OTL) by the time the Spanish first arrived in the Philippines in the early 16th century, converting the Southernmost regions of the Philippines as well as the region surrounding modern-day...

From what I read in old Portuguese records shown by a historian I know, the Portuguese were friendly with the Bruneians and even explored Luzon during the reign of John III, however that was stopped due to the regency and influence of Catherine of Austria, what if the Portuguese and later...

what if USA "liberates" all 1763 Spainish colonies? Napoleon was never born and Spanish empire survives with 1763 borders in 1850s and are without civil wars but for that reason they don't enact post occupation reforms and have even less industry. American settlers are countered by brutal...

I've been thinking, what if the civil war ended inconclusively, and both nations managed to stay neutral during WW2? How would they have developed during the Cold War? Could they have reunified later? Would they have been accepted into the UN, NATO and the EU? One way to start this timeline is...

The Childs of the Salamander TImeline of the death of Francis I in 1525 On 24 February 1525 in Pavia, in Lombardy, the army of Francis I, King of France was defeated. More than a military defeat, this meeting saw the king captured by the armies of his great rival on the European scene, the...

If the Byzantines were stronger in the west, was there any possibility of an Orthodox Spain and what would be the consequence? If it's possible the best pod in my opinion would be for the Byzantines to hold on to Italy before the schism and keep Spain within its sphere. What changes would there...

On March 9, 1539, Catherine of Austria would die giving birth to Infante Antonio, who also dies when she gives birth to him, John III needed another wife and Henry VIII would send his daughter Mary Tudor (who was recognized again as legitimate on the urging of Jane Seymour) on 1540 which would...

During the early 19th Century in the 1830s, both Spain and Portugal were going through civil wars. To oversimplify, this were between liberals, and the conservatives over the succession of their respective monarchs. In Spain, it was the Carlists, where the supporters of Infante Carlos (Charles...

So, in my Failed Constitutional Convention TL, Godoy is forewarned about napoleon's intent to double cross Spain given the chance and believes it (i figured that with ~11 countries all having embassies in pairs, intrigue makes such secrets much harder.) as such, spain and Portugal do not fall...

As in the title, if circumstances arose earlier in the ARW where Britain was not so confident in victory, would they be a able to recruit Spain to their side by offering Gibralter or Florida in exchange? Would they be willing to join against France too? I thought of the scenario after I read...

I am planning a Time line and would love to see some discussion on the scenario below. The premise is that the Spanish under the direction of prime Minister Manuel Godoy is able to start a war with Portugal a decade earlier then OTL. In 1797, a year after the Second Treaty of San Ildefonso with...

How could Spain have maintained Latin America under its empire until the decolonization era? In OTL the Peninsular War sparked the independence movements, so avoiding it would be obvious, but then what? Would the Spanish Empire need some reforms? How would Spain deal with the US and its...

In this TL the Iberian Union survives for a lot longer, a few centuries at least. My question is what happens to some Portuguese colonies, specially Brazil. Without the competition between Spain and Portugal, would Brazil still expand westwards? Or does the crown make them respect the Line of...

Why didn't Spain and Portugal colonize more of Oceania and South East Asia during their peak power? And what would have to change for them to do it? Also, most of New Guinea was on the Spanish side of the world, so wouldn't it make more sense to colonize there instead of the Philippines?

What if the Carlists won the First Carlist War (1833-1839) and Prince Carlos became king Carlos V. What would be the colonial consequences of this? Will Spain be more involved in the Scramble for Africa or in Asia or will they do more in the New World with Mexico or something? And thus: will...

First of all, I urge everyone to familiarise themselves with the terms Legitimist, Orleanist, and Bonapartist on the chart. Henri, Count of Chambord (Henri V on chart) was the last male line descendant of the French branch of the House of Bourbon. He almost became King of France in 1871, but...