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Portugal capital Rio de Janeiro (Brazil does not secede from Portugal and the Royal Family stays there) would be interesting. But as for the proposed Europe: Spain capital Lisbon (ITTL Portugal and Spain remain united) England capital York (the court moved there after the invassion of the...

Not only technology. You are talking of units capable of sustaining up to a 70% of casualties without losing cohesion, with a discipline hardly seen in history (in Nordlingen they waited standing until the Swedish Musketeers were about to fire, then dropped to the ground and when the volley...

You had precedents in 1582 of combats between japanese and spaniards in the Cagayan battles, where badly outnumbered spaniards defeated the japanese. Dutch attempts in 1646 and 1647 were also defeats.

That is not true. When Isabel and Fernando started to use the term Spain to describe the union of the two crowns, the portuguese kings complained as they considered the word Spain as to be also theirs.

So... most of mesoamericans did not perceive the Spaniards as the real danger, but the Aztecs. The Spaniards did not destroy those languages, they gave them a written form, compiled grammars (before the Englishmen did). The clergy sent to the Americas had to learn some of those languages. They...

Some more examples: * The war of La Vendée during the french revolution, * The last vikings in Greenland were sold by english enslavers in North Africa,

Brutality... I suppose you refer to the Black Legend: * Most of the forces that defeated Aztecs were mesoamericans, * Most mesoamerican languages had a written grammar before English did, * The first universities in the Americas date back to the 1530s, * Mesoamericans were not naturals of a...

I know this is old, but talking about misconceptions... In fact, this is not true... There are important populations in Sierra Morena (Andalucia) that descend from German colonists settled there in the XVIII century. And basques are usually dark haired. Where do the "Leyes de Indias" cope...

Obviously they did not know that, as the austrians did not know what would happen if they attacked Serbia or the British did not know what would happen if they taxed the tea in their american colonies... But, in fact, they were not expelled in 1501. The Law of February 14th 1501 ordered them to...

Ribagorza County It was one of the first christian states during the Reconquista. WI they kept leadership and created an empire in western Mediterranean with colonies in the Americas?

More tolerant? Define tolerant. During the offensive that led to the Navas de Tolosa battle, there was an important contingent of european crusaders (from France, England, some german states...). When the leaders of the offensive found out that these allies sacked and killed the islamic and...

Basques were also castillian. Do not let XIX century nationalistic labels blind you.

Galicians were Castillians. And of course there were catalans, italians, germans and even greeks!!! We are talking about the XVI-XVII centuries: one thing is the law and another is if you can enforce it.

You still have the same problems: internal problems, logistic lines, lack of industrial capabilities...

Nationalitic movements there would receive even less support.

CSA could not think on taking the last Spanish territories (Cuba and Puerto Rico) after the Civil War. The Spanish Fleet on those days was again a powerful force: the frigate Numancia was one of the most powerful ships of the era and hershelf alone could have dealt with the US navy and of course...

WWII starts as IOTL, but after USSR attacks Finland, France and UK declare war on the USSR. After Germany defeats France on the west, Stalin thinks "we have won, why do I have to share Europe with Hitler?" and he backstabs Germany...

I'd for this option: Charles never became King of Spain so his line will rule on Netherlands and Austria (plus Bohemia and Hungary if he marry Anne Jagellon or both she and her brother Louis die without heirs) while Ferdinand rule Spain (maybe HRE Maximilian die before Ferdinand of Aragon so...

What about more settlers from New Spain?

They do not even need to ally: in order to have Persia survive, they must defeat soundly the arabs, that means they are weaker and when they try on roman territory, they are thrased.