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If Castile does not unite with Aragon, or union is short living (like it would be with surviving John of Girona) how would its colonial expansion looks like? Would Spanish colinization be more or less successful than IOTL, without Crown of Aragon, Navarre and Burgundian inheritancd? On one hand-less population and resources, but IOTL Spanish colonialism was mostly Castilian adventure, so little change here. On the other hand-Castile does not need to care about Netherlands and Italy and has very short land border with France. Thus Castilians could concentrate more on Atlantic than on affairs of continental Europe, with things like 30 Years War being largely irrevelant to them. So does it mean that Castlian colonial expansion should not suffer due lack of Aragonese and Burgundian lands?
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