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Some spanish WI: 1. Fearing the success of the "Felicisima" Armada, the dutch rebels decide to give up before the fleet sets sail. 2. Hispano-irish victory in the battle of Kildare. 3. Napoleon is not allowed to cross Spain in order to invade Portugal.

How many people lived in Hawaii by the end of XV century?

How can you describe as colonies territories that have been claimed and administered by this "Byzantine Empire" (or the Roman Empire) for almost 2000 years?

IOTL Germany started World War II by invading Poland in 1939. Japan entered in it by attacking Pearl Harbor in 1941. But what if the order was different? Suppose Japan decides or prepares faster to attack the States and Hitler decides they need some more time to attack Poland. So we could have...

The so called Iberian Union was not a matter of riches.

It depends on the POD: * POD: Spain manages to fend off english-french-dutch-others from settling in the 13 colonies. Spain is overstretched, small "presidios" would appear. The "presidios" would have a mission, a few colonists and a few soldiers. Just the model that was used from Texas to...

What do you do with the tlaxcaltecans and all those other peoples that asked for spanish help to get rid of the aztecs?

An egocentric genocidal tyrant... yes he was a bad guy.

When I knew first of this forum I posted a lot about the possibility of using the School of Salamanca as POD.

Would the dead of 20 guys made others not to try it? I don't think so... If it were not Pizarro, someone else would do it.

The impact of the Inquisition has been on one hand overrated (they executed less people than any other tribunal in the rest of Europe of the era, gave procesal guarantees to the people that came under its jurisdiction, prevented mob-executions and judged other questions such as counterfeit of...

What has been the impact on the Netherlands? IOTL, the dutch rebels were about to give up and claim for mercy from the Crown suspectig they were to loose the English support. I suppose that ITTL after the English defeat and the destruction of the dutch fleet, they would start negotiations.

Aguirre, the Basque regional president, and the PNV made an attempt to convince Hitler to grant their independence and create a basque state. Maybe if he sees an advantage on that... Or probably if a conflict erupts between Mussolini and Hitler on Austria (before September '39) and Franco sides...

Just prevent Charles V from becoming Carlos I. By the time he was arriving to Spain an expedition to take Oran was being prepared. He was constantly blamed by the spaniards of the era for forgetting the coast of Africa. There was a generalized sense in Castille and in Aragon that the Magreb...

When Franco's regime was more or less accepted by the western democracies, spanish workers were allowed to emigrate. For the regime it was a way of having an extra income and these people found a way of earning much more money than in Spain. As for that bullring it seems that bull-fights were...

I'm back!!! I fully disagree with this argument. Tolerance? Working with the conquered? The Spanish Empire was not a place in which we, people from the XXI, would have liked to live in, but can you tell me: When did the french, the english, the portuguese and the dutch write laws to...

This could also spare the Spanish in the Philippines, with no pressure from the English it would remain as the lingua franca and the upper classes language. By the way I have never heard about the risk of civil war in the years of the ASW.

As an opportunist he would probably try to assimilate his regime to that of Germany or Italy: no democracy, personal leadership and cult to the nation. However your hints about his future are rather...

Renaisancepunk: the designs of Leonardo da Vinci, Juanelo Turriano, Blasco de Garay and Federigo Giambelli come true... flying machines, tanks, machine-guns, robots, steam boats and explosive devices with the flavour of the Renaisance.

You are very generous with Aguirre. Remember that IOTL he backstabbed the Republican Government with the Santoña surrender (part of the PNV troops even joined the carlist requetés and fought for Franco), then he tried to persuade Hitler of helping him creating a Basque State, when he failed he...