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I recently read that the Mayflower ship carried 27 families to the 13 colonies and today over 30 million people are descendants from those 27 families. Therefore as some have stated the world would be completely different and to suggest there be a WW1 and WW2 defies understanding about impact...

Yes, you are correct. It will add intrigue to TL. We have clear examples in our history of what happens to those who are "deemed" unfit to rule. At best is to be locked up in a "institution" more like a prison. Or they could be manipulated/tricked to give power to those who wish to control them...

Yes, it will; it happened with those not autistic. What I meant was that depending on the severity of it, many can learn to navigate many different circumstances instead of being institutionalized.

Depends on his education. A lot of kids and adults with autism can learn how to behave and act. With proper help and “assistance,” he can navigate. That is coming from a parent of a child with autism.

The events will change, and in my opinion, we can have Pedro II instead of Joao IV. To make things simpler for us, we can have similar events, and they have similar attitudes and prejudices. In my example, Jose II and Marques Pombal dealt with the 1755 earthquake on a TL that started in 1450...

The biggest factor or pitfall I see in many TLs is that we have the same character in the same role or invent the same thing hundreds of years later. An example was a Portuguese TL that started in the 15th century; Portugal established a large colony in North America and then had the same king...

In tnr 17th century there a few cases in which there are few claimants to the throne. It would only be in one if those struggles that in exchange for support and troops it gains not only influence but control. One thing I always read was the way the Berbers were discriminated by Arabs. That in...

I like where it's going and how a new generation from a wealthy country would want to show off a little. The battle in far away Baltic gave the Portuguese a moral boost and, more importantly, reinforced its alliances and support for allies while keeping supply lines open. Now I wonder if we...

Has anyone seen the Confederate States of America movie? It was set in the scenario that you are discussing.

Great update. Fitting elegy. In future there may be additional retrospective posts about what his reign meant for the country. As for corrections made in previous post may I recommend you post new post referencing updated previous posts

Thanks for the recap. The Italian Peninsula situation and the Ottoman Empire are two most interesting because they have highest impact to the Portuguese. In terms of Italian peninsula and the devastation there I wondered what if any Portugal could assist. Humanitarian, refugees? Or those...

He had both likable personality and deep care for the people. He also had a very good education. Combined together if his reign was like him at start of his reign he could have done a lot. Industry, trade, democratic reforms. All were possible outcomes.

Great update. Interesting how the Spanish nation is trying to handle the situation and how politics will affect the outcome. IOTL it was the desire of and resentment by Barcelona and the old rights of Aragon and Madrid's attempt to strip them of these rights that led to Aragon/Barcelona...

Well I am not surprised at the Spanish insistence on maintaining their empire. The questions (not need respond) are: 1) are the Spanish in for a greater fall without the Portuguese resources of the Iberian Union? 2) it does not seem that Dutch have suffered due lack ability to take...

we had this discussion in past and you are not providing any detail except you are waving a magic wand and trying to say the US will be exactly the same with the addition of upper and lower Canada. But that is impossible the inclusion of Canada in the constitutional discussions will change the...