Your goal is to expand Spanish colonies in Africa, Asia, America or any other. No ASB. Can be a map
Have the Spanish win outright in the Spanish-Portuguese War in 1776-1777 or The War of the Oranges. With the Oranges the colonies might end up getting split with France but this is assuming Britian doesn't get involved on Portugal's side so the best bet IMO would be the former.
Yep, that is much possible compared to the other scenarios talked here.
Spanish Armada is not defeated; meaning England is beaten and the Spanish colonize all of the American continents? Which means The US will still exist in a recognizable form (white majority country, decent standards of living, immigrants from mestizo-majority countries); just that will be spanish-speaking. Like Argentina.
The US will still exist in a recognizable form (white majority country, decent standards of living, immigrants from mestizo-majority countries); just that will be spanish-speaking. Like Argentina.
No it won't. It will be butterflied away, along with every single bit of history from there on. You've just created a highly unrecogniseable world. Hapsburg England likely implies a much less liberal, more church-orientated society everywhere where the Hapsburgs have trodden.
What of France and the Dutches?
Living in colonial lands will force people to develop new modes of thought (i.e. more 'liberal' ideas develop in the colonies anyway). You saw that in Imperial Russia with Siberian settlers who were new/forward-thinking and arguably the same with Crimeans. The Spanish will probably fuck up their development of colonial industry or whatnot, the colonists see how britain is developing and they become independent and if the spanish restrict that it resultes in tensions which can lead to revolution. The Spanish more directly governed their colonies, and that may exacerbate the ensions
Besides, even if England is rejoined to Catholicism the same issues which prompted Martin Luther's reformation will happen.
I am not sure. Perhaps Spain annexes them somehow, or France sells its colonies to Spain after losing Haiti as OTL, and Spain having a similar culture governs the french colonies pretty nicely.
Living in colonial lands will force people to develop new modes of thought (i.e. more 'liberal' ideas develop in the colonies anyway). You saw that in Imperial Russia with Siberian settlers who were new/forward-thinking and arguably the same with Crimeans. The Spanish will probably fuck up their development of colonial industry or whatnot, the colonists see how britain is developing and they become independent and if the spanish restrict that it resultes in tensions which can lead to revolution. The Spanish more directly governed their colonies (compared to Britain's 'benign neglect' until they had to centralize and tax the empire better), and that may exacerbate the tensions.
They will not. People who move from their homeland to another place will generally be very conservative. They will stick to the values they had at the time they left, their values and culture will not change, probably because there is more 'danger' of loosing their culture. In the homeland this will not be the case, and there people's culture will change, because people do not see that as a threat. So therefore the Hapsburg culture will in the homeland slowly start to be more liberal, but this will not happen in the colonies.
People in colonies start to be different from the people in the homeland, and, also for geographical reasons, they will start to strive for independence. But they will not be more liberal than people from the homeland, they will be even less liberal.
Have the Spanish win outright in the Spanish-Portuguese War in 1776-1777 or The War of the Oranges. With the Oranges the colonies might end up getting split with France but this is assuming Britian doesn't get involved on Portugal's side so the best bet IMO would be the former.
Spanish Armada is not defeated; meaning England is beaten and the Spanish colonize all of the American continents? Which means The US will still exist in a recognizable form (white majority country, decent standards of living, immigrants from mestizo-majority countries); just that will be spanish-speaking. Like Argentina.
This does not change anything. In fact the Armada episode was part of a war that ended in 1604 with a treaty in which England acknowledged all Spanish claims... Eventually someone would avoid Spanish control in the Americas