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In any 19th-century TL we almost always hear about the inevitable decline of the Spanish Empire, and even before then we hear of France, England and the Netherlands surpassing or equalling Spain and Portugal as great colonial powers; Torsedillas is virtually always described as arrogant and unenforceable. So is it even possible, with a PoD at any time during or after Columbus reaches land in the west, that Spain and Portugal (or, alternatively, a united Iberia) remain the greatest colonial powers in the world far ahead of the nearest competitor (analogous to France and the UK in the latter half of the 19th century IOTL), at least up until roughly 1900? They don't have to retain all the territory they've ever held, nor does Torsedillas in particular have to work out.

I haven't the faintest idea myself, given that what very, very little knowledge I have of colonial America is centred on the British and (to a much lesser extent) French colonies in North America.
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