AHC: Switch spanish and portuguese colonial empires

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I was thinking about this idea-make Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Philippines ect. portuguese, and Brazil, Angola, Macau, Goa spanish. Do you think it is possible? Was Portugal capable to conquer Aztec and Inca civilizations like Spaniards did in OTL?
(my first, long awaited thread:))
 
The easiest way to do it would be to have Columbus accepted by the court of Portugal and discover the New World in their name, and a later analogue to Tordesillas would have it the other way around

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Grey Wolf
 
The easiest way to do it would be to have Columbus accepted by the court of Portugal and discover the New World in their name, and a later analogue to Tordesillas would have it the other way around.

I think you'd have to start with an earlier POD. Portuguese explorers like Vasoco de Gama were exploring the coastline of Africa decades before Columbus, and even if the Portuguese did support Columbus he'd have to come back with something to show that the claim to the New World would be worth giving up the claim to Africa, which provided gold and was a surer route to the wealth of Asia.
 
Problem; the two nations are kinda inegal in populations and wealth. SPain was maybe 2-3 times the population at least (Ls Catalina may know) and such...
 
Problem; the two nations are kinda inegal in populations and wealth. SPain was maybe 2-3 times the population at least (Ls Catalina may know) and such...

Population does'nt really effect colonialism, I mean afterall Belgium had the Congo, Britain at its height controlled an Empire with 10 times as many people as the actual Metropolitan country had, then of course thei'rs the fact that Portugal itself did IOTL control a relatively large Empire AND managed to have colonial migration to the point that Brazil is majority white and had Angola remained part of Portugal, it would probably be close to half white by now.
 
Population does'nt really effect colonialism, I mean afterall Belgium had the Congo, Britain at its height controlled an Empire with 10 times as many people as the actual Metropolitan country had, then of course thei'rs the fact that Portugal itself did IOTL control a relatively large Empire AND managed to have colonial migration to the point that Brazil is majority white and had Angola remained part of Portugal, it would probably be close to half white by now.

Man power and settlers are - they change the nature of colonialism. Brazil wasn't much settled at first, I heard, and Portugal was kinda forced to go for trade counters in much of their colonies first. This was one of the reasons that screwed Dutch colonial efforts in North America.
 
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Man power and settlers are - they change the nature of colonialism. Brazil wasn't much settled at first, I heard, and Portugal was kinda forced to go for trade counters in much of their colonies first. This was one of the reasons that screwed Dutch colonial efforts in North America.

The settlement of Brazil was unique, and a big part of it was how it was done, that is rather than doing what the Spanish did, going in guns a' blazing conquering peopl through force and going on what amounted to occasional mini-crusades, the Portuguese basically filtered in and traded with the indgenous population and, for the most part, came to dominate that way, which ultimately allowed for better settler environments later on.
 
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