I was just reading an old Portuguese book where it says that some Portuguese navigators could have reached the coast of OTL northern Pernambouc Republic (former France Antartique, independent from France in the 19th. century) by early 1500's, just a century early from the final integration of the Portuguese provinces to Spain.
Supposing that this ABS was true, how tiny, poor and now extinct Portugal would have managed a colony in the Eastern South America? How would they avoid the OTL French, Dutch invasions to that coast or manage the pressure from the Spanish colonies from the south?
Supposing that this ABS was true, how tiny, poor and now extinct Portugal would have managed a colony in the Eastern South America? How would they avoid the OTL French, Dutch invasions to that coast or manage the pressure from the Spanish colonies from the south?