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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...

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?

HELLO! 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...

The administrative organization indiana begins with the addition of the Indies to the Castilian Crown. These are incorporated, forgive the repetition, by way of "discovery" (res nullius). There is a papal grant in which Pope Alexander VI of gifts to the kings of Castile and Leon. The problem...

How could Morocco or Turkey (I think the best candidates) be actually in the EU?

The Turks had been massing an enormous fleet for an invasion of Italy. The preparations began to be reported on many months in advance. It was the year 1571 when that fleet was gathered near a port in Greece, not far from the Gulf of Lepanto. For over a year, Pope Pius V had tried to alert the...

Sorry, I was unable to the temptation of to bring the war to England Wikipedia: <Due to the hostile politics of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, the new king Henry II of Castile joined the French side during the Hundred Years´War and declared war on England. As a result, Sánchez de Tovar...

inspired in the map thread V. How could evolve the world with a capitalist Russia? How could evolve Russia? Where could be their limits?

http://www.dalecozort.com/AHNewsletter/Nov99/Comuneros.htm I read this and made me think. It is almost unimaginable that the comuneros could won, but WI it had succeeded?

Let´s get a try. This is our story Our nation was born when Isabella and Ferdinand were joined in holy matrimony, and then there was war. There were only three crowns and two could be the embryo of Spain. It win the option of Castile and Aragon. Maybe it was not the best option but was the...

1526.-Six days after going into the vastness of the Pacific Ocean on June 2, the squad found another storm that broke García Jofre de Loaísa expedition to conquer Molucas. After some months and many hardships, the expedition arrives in a land that only appears in the imagination of some...

The questions are: How do you get the british in the euro? Would be better to the british to be in the euro? How would this affect in the actual crisis? How could this affect to the future (yeah this could be in the future forum)?

there was any possibility that Spain could lose its colonial empire at some point during the succession of Charles II issues?. I´m interesting in a way to "reduction" of the spanish empire so I would be so grateful if some charitable soul could inform me.

I have always seen the EU as something that could have been more than it is so how to make the EU into a country? When? and how powerful could have been the EU?

I have recently read the comments made in AH about WWI and it came to my mind the following thought: it was the assassination of the Austrian monarch what provokes the reactions of Austria and Germany, however Germany was condemned as the great causative of the war. I sincerely believe that the...

WI Franco offers territories in northern Morocco in exchange for Gibraltar? Have accepted the British? I do not consider myself a nationalist, so do not misunderstand me. It is just curiosity. Enjoy trying to answer the question and be happy