AHC: Morocco becomes a colonial power

Let's say the king of Portugal survives the battle of three kings and is captured by Almansur. How far would Portugal go to free him?
 
Just remembered the history of this guy. The Dutch, as liberals as they are, could resettle the entire Republc of Sale in some remote area of the new world, offering financial support and freedom of religion. Eventually, as the Dutch republic starts to crumble, this Muslim colony could ask for Moroccan help. How about that?
 

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Morocco's incentives were mostly south in the Sahara due to the decay of Songhai. Gotta find away to either avert that or have a new West African hegemon come into power in order to have Morocco focus elsewhere. Said hegemon also needs good gunpowder weaponry and cavalry.
 
1601. He wanted to do it with England, but the queen refused.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_al-Mansur

She refused him because he was about as reliable as southern rail. She'd asked him to ally with her for an earlier attack on spain and he'd promised her his support and then used that as a threat to get a better deal from the spanish.

Al mansur had no plans to colonise the new world what he had were plans to make himself seem important by playing a huge bluff that he was powerful and influencial in ways he just wasn't in reality. Proposing colonies is part of that, so is declaring himself caliph and a bunch of other things. Don't mistake the hype for reality.

OTL, Sebastian did not have an heir and the throne reverted to his great uncle, Henry, who was also a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

And was not released from his oath of celbacy by the pope meaning the family died out and the spanish took the throne. If Morocco could produce Sebastian then it's be very valuable because it would preserve portugal as a nation.

I still don't think they'd sell Morocco brazil in order to gain it mind, if there was going to be any territory exchanges it would be returning the portuguese towns in morocco, which would be a huge success for al mansur, though a large blow for the food supplies of portugal because they collected food in taxes from the local areas.
 
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