Highlands007
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What if the california gold rush was one hundred years early in 1748?how different would california,new spain and spain be?
Well, Spain is not going to give up California and Texas. Just as they traded interests in Florida for Britain's interests in Cuba, they will negotiate borders with the Oregon and Louisiana (Missouri) Territories. In any case, California and Texas are Spanish speaking, along with the mountain territories in between.
Unlikely. Where is Spain going to get the manpower from to settle the region with Spanish speakers? The homeland is already suffering from a population shortage, and the colonies are fairly scarcely populated. Throwing what settlers you have north is liable to get them slaughtered by the (still highly competitive) Amerindians.
There's also the possibility that Britain decides its a good time to reassert Drake's claim.
Unlikely. Where is Spain going to get the manpower from to settle the region with Spanish speakers? The homeland is already suffering from a population shortage, and the colonies are fairly scarcely populated. Throwing what settlers you have north is liable to get them slaughtered by the (still highly competitive) Amerindians.
That's exactly what they did with Nuevo México and Tejas though. And unlike Nuevo México and Tejas, here the main purpose isn't to be a buffer state for the actual mining regions like Chihuahua and Zacatecas, it is an actual mining region and thus highly important to the Spanish crown. So probably a significant amount of settlers who otherwise went to Nuevo México and Tejas will instead go to California.