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As I'm sure you've all noticed by timelines tend to get...convluted.
I just can't help it!
I'm a firm believer in the butterfly effect and the inter connectedness of everything.
I mean look at it this way.

Assume, theoretically the Spanish armada suceeds, a puppet ruler is placed in England and the Dutch rebellion is crushed.
Now. Even though Spain becoming all powerful is the main point of this TL would the rest of the world just sit around and wait to be conquered? No! Other things would happen.
Say for instance if England had large trade with Sweden which the Spanish ruined (they didn't, but pretend they did for here). Having England cut off would ruin a big source of income for Sweden and their monarch was in the middle of building a nice new palace. He needs money!
So what does he do? Something he wouldn't have done IOTL and attacks Poland.
Now he beats Poland and gets a lot of money off them and weakens them in the process. IOTL there was no big Ottoman attack on Poland here but with Poland totally weakened? Of course they're going to attack!
But then...nations don't line up and wait for their turn to act do they?
A real world timeline wouldn't read:

2009-2011; Venezuala-Brazil war
2011-2014; China-India war
2014-2015; USA-China war.

Would it?
No, it'd be more like.
2009-2011; Venezuala-Brazil war
2010-2015; China-India war
2014-2015; USA-China war.

But of course in writing this all gets so complicated so fast.We are dealing with a planet here afterall!
So...what do you think is the best way to properly keep track of everything going on without it being a overly complicated mess?
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