English South America Colonies

What would the names of OTL South American nations be if England had colonised them instead?

Brazil
Colombia
Venezuela
Ecuador
Uruguay
Argentina
Guyana
Peru
Bolivia
Chile
 
Depends entirely on when/how the colonies come under English control, whether or not they control those exact boundaries or only parts of what we today understand to be those nations, etc. etc. etc.
 
Depends entirely on when/how the colonies come under English control, whether or not they control those exact boundaries or only parts of what we today understand to be those nations, etc. etc. etc.


Complete rewrite. England takes all of Spains OTL American Empire and Spain takes the British.
 
Well, that's unlikely for a number of reasons. Spain took what it did because it arrived first and conquered those portions of the Americas which were the most populous, so far as first explorations could tell, and those which were of most economic use to it. England is geographically inclined to arrive on the scene later than any Iberian power, and so would not have first dibs as Spain did.

But if that's the case, then England's colonies will very likely not follow the same boundaries as the Spanish ones we know from OTL, so it's hard to line up OTL's Latin American nations and what they "would have been" if the English got there first.
 
FWIW the "Spain would always get there first" argument could be circumvented by a continuing/failed Reconquista that sees Spain remain divided until a much later date. That might also take Portugal out of the game as well, depending on how it plays out. What that means for the naming schemes for English *Latin America, I've no idea...they seemed to like "New ____" conventions.

EDIT: And no, I don't ascribe to such a setup drastically changing events in Northern Europe, which wasn't really affected to any measurable degree by the success of the Reconquista.
 
FWIW the "Spain would always get there first" argument could be circumvented by a continuing/failed Reconquista that sees Spain remain divided until a much later date. That might also take Portugal out of the game as well, depending on how it plays out. What that means for the naming schemes for English *Latin America, I've no idea...they seemed to like "New ____" conventions.

EDIT: And no, I don't ascribe to such a setup drastically changing events in Northern Europe, which wasn't really affected to any measurable degree by the success of the Reconquista.

I didn't mean for it to come across as "it's fated to happen that way", exactly. Just speaking in terms of trends. Iberia's in the best position, geographically, on the European continent to first "discover" and explore the Americas. Delaying the Reconquista has a lot more interesting consequences than just preventing an Iberian discovery of the Americas, I think...
 
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