During the early colonial period of Venezuela, a wealthy German family (the Welser Family) took temporary control of Venezuela for almost 20 years with the objective of discover El Dorado. King Carlos V of Spain allowed this as a repayment of the debts that he had with the Welser's, and having them wandering in the Venezuelan amazonia was kind of neat for them.
But what if instead of searching this completely mythological treasure, the Welser's instead decided to choose for settle germans there, and also mine for tangible resources that (despite mostly weren't discovered until later) were already being exploited by the spaniards.
Which consequences would leave this german colonizers here? How could they co-exist with the spanish creoles? Would they leave major repercussions in the Venezuelan and American history? (Even during their short stance, they founded the prototype of one of the biggest cities of the country, Maracaibo aka New Nuremberg.)
But what if instead of searching this completely mythological treasure, the Welser's instead decided to choose for settle germans there, and also mine for tangible resources that (despite mostly weren't discovered until later) were already being exploited by the spaniards.
Which consequences would leave this german colonizers here? How could they co-exist with the spanish creoles? Would they leave major repercussions in the Venezuelan and American history? (Even during their short stance, they founded the prototype of one of the biggest cities of the country, Maracaibo aka New Nuremberg.)