AHC/WI/PC: No Spanish Inquisition That Leads To Protestant Spain

Spain could have just allow religious tolerance to keep the Netherlands.....

The Spanish bureaucracy that benefited the top way more also in some cases hampered the economy. Could that also be changed? I mean, if the Americas never had the caste system that would doom the region preventing it means preventing the one from home in the first place.

How can Spain allow religious tolerance?
 

Yuelang

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in fact, religious "tolerance" as we know it did not exist until the long slog about religious wars between Catholics and Protestants finally come to the later phase.

If Spain tolerate the Dutch Protestant "Heresy" they will be branded as heretics themselves by the pope...

but yeah, it will likely to end in Dynastic change inside Spain (Catholicism is too strong if you go with post reconquista POD, as they are the unifier of Iberians), and if you butterfly the reconquista, you will butterfly the Spain as we knew it
 
How do we get that though?
Well, as said above : prevent the waste of ressources in geopolitics (for exemple) and manage to grab as much stability possible to have something as the "beau XVIème" (good XVIth). Which doesn't, incidentally, ask for absence of wars or crisis, but having enough inner focus for a time.

And effective will they be and what benefits would they cause?
A more important reflexion on economics, as a mix between humanistics and production ethos. Basically a counterpoint to IOTL popular Calvinist ethics on work (Don't get me wrong : you won't have the same thing, but something different).
With luck and several butterflies, you may end with an ATL predecessor to social policy of Catholicism in the XIXth century.
 
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