I have read many times that the only thing that held Brazil together to prevent the emergence of several republics in the style of Spanish America was the presence of the Portuguese royal family. I wonder what republics would have emerged if the Portuguese royal family had not escaped from Napoleon
"Throughout the Empire, hordes of Christians plunder temples and kill the priests of the ancient gods..."
The time of Constantine the Great always seemed to me quite interesting. Paganism is very importan even while dozens os Christian sects flourish. All that things rises even to speak in...
Tanger was given as dowry to the British in Charles´marriage to Catherine in 1661. My questions are: would have been viable for the British to keep the city? and wich had been the consequences of Tangier in their hands since 1661?
Well, I was reading about the Ottomans and Italy in a recent thread. I was wondering, how was the balance of powers at that time?
To summarize, Which do you believe that was the first power at that time (especially the late fifteenth century and the mid-sixteenth)? How do you could do to change...
In fact there were many opportunities for the invaders leaving the peninsula during the early stages of invasion, that would be easier than "the moors never invaded Iberia", but I also don´t know what would be the consecuences of the moors leaving the peninsula in 730, for example. What could...
How to maintain dominance over Spanish America ending the monopoly at the same time? It´s a simple cuestion but a difficult challenge if you accept it. DO YOU ACCEPT IT?
Castilian was born in an area of Basque speakers and complaints about the Basque Country led to this region fall into the hands of Castile in 1200. Furthermore, the navarro language is phagocytized by Castilian so it is practically a dead language.
If the Basque disappears in the late Middle...
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What I wonder is not how to make the empiresof the aztecs and incas to survive, but how should the europeans react against that.
Everyone assumes that smallpox and other diseases were the main cause of the conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. Everyone also assumes that for this...
I´m wondering what could happen if the plans of oliver cromwell succed. What if Venables and Penn had been in a better relationship. What if they really succed in the conquer of Sto. Domingo instead of Jamaica. I believe that a conquest, relatively easy, of the island would mean that British...