Recent content by zampano

Interesting replies! I'd like to quickly add some of my opinions to discuss it later: 1 - Most of the revolts in Brazil by that time, like the other big countries in America, e.g. Argentina, Mexico, USA, were not about Conservatism or Liberalism (I think that would be better suited to discuss...

Well, apparently I gave the wrong link, mea culpa. It was supposed to be that: http://www.historyjournal.ie/irish-slavery/57-irish-slavery-topics/113-irish-slaves-in-jamaica.html It's the same site so give me a break. I'll quote the good part for you: I'm waiting for your source that goes agains...

Wasn't easier/cheaper just to grow food where the people are? Food was just too cheap to pay off the investiments. What about an early discovery of gold in Georgia? There was enough gold there to make the Spanish greedy?

I wasn't talking much about servitude but regular slavery of Irish people by the Republican Gouvernement, as you can see there: http://www.historyjournal.ie/irish-slavery/55-irish-slavery-main-page/106-the-irish-slave-trade.html, I don't have much information about that though, maybe my sources...

As far as I know, there was literally Irish slavery in the Caribbean Islands by the Cromwellian times, I don't know much further than that though. I don't see much economic opportunities outside the Southern Plantations. Most of the rest of the colonies would be just as unpopulated and...

To answer that I've just one phrase: El Che was Irish-descendent. :p His family usually said that he caried the "restlessness" of the Irish Rebels in his veins. As for the question, the only main change would probably be linguistic. Argentinian accent, specially the porteño, would be very...

with less personae non gratae in the British Isles most of the American settlers would probably be Continental Europe Protestants... German-speaking America? What about Irish slavery? It would last in this Republican Britain?

I don't remember if by that time there was a Dutch town there or if there was at least some fort by them. Although I'm sure that the economical presence of the Dutch there was pretty strong already. I think they would sooner or later add up to the population of the 'to-be founded' New Amsterdam.

What about a Catholic Russia-Poland-Lithuania sending missionaries cathechizing Mongols or Manchus that somehow take parts of China and keep an ambiguous relationship with Mother Russia? (à la OTL's relations between Portugal and Kongo or Portugal and Ethiopia) That would make a hell of a TL.

It depends on what is your conception of Liberalism. A princess that tries by all means to abolish slavery in her country, despite of the position of most of her political and economical support, and that even thought of an agrarian reform to settle the new freedmen (yes, we have documents...

I don't think that kind of agreement between the King and the heir would survive the idiosyncracies of the next generations of the Royal family, it's just the Atlantic Ocean between Lisbon and Rio. Communication is surely hard, someone sometime wouldn't like to go to Rio or to Lisbon. Although...

it's not (only) because I'm Brazilian, but I think it would probably work the other way round.

That's exactly it. What defines what is a language, or a dialect, or even an accent, is politics. Arabic and Chinese dialects are much less intelligible than some of the self-proclaimed European languages, e.g. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, etc. As a matter of fact, I think that the...

It's an intricated question that we have in here. If the Eastern Mediterranean route is still economically profitable for Europeans, the Portuguese wouldn't cross half a world to the Indies. :p The great navigations and the troubles in the Eastern commerce are pretty much connected.

In fact, I see as the major cause of the Brazilian republican coup the great rejection by the old landed élite of the measures of the politically overactive Princess Isabel. She was way too liberal to the eyes of most of the political class and it was pretty visible with all her laws against...