The Prussians did not try to colonize Klein Venedig. Klein Venedig was a group of territorial rights Charles V(as King of Spain) granted to two Ausburg Banking Families, with the Welser Family eventually assuming sole control. The colony wasn't really even ever established, they were basically just on a treasure hunt for gold, and by Charles V's death they had been stripped of their rights to the colony.i meant the Prussians in their first attempt. Mighty interesting with a Germanophone Central America.
Spain was very overprotective of its monopoly rights in its colonies. I think you're going to see Kleinvenedig overrun and seized within a few decades whatever happens really, no matter how successful at first.
Well, the Welsers were also searching for the legendary "El Dorado", if they had found the Inca first (entirely possible if Ambrosius Ehringer and Nicolaus Federmann are a tad more lucky), then the Inca gold might have ended up in the hands of the Welsers.
But how much gold could they have gotten out first?They couldnt hve held it. Even if they usurp the Inca Empires power (which, given the Inca States highly centralised nature is entirely possible), it was wrecked so much by plagues, the Spanish would simply conquer it from the Welsers...Well, the Welsers were also searching for the legendary "El Dorado", if they had found the Inca first (entirely possible if Ambrosius Ehringer and Nicolaus Federmann are a tad more lucky), then the Inca gold might have ended up in the hands of the Welsers.
The problem the Welsers had was that they were nosing around everywhere and not paying their cut to the Spanish. If they pay up and look loyal (noncompetitive, anyway), the Spanish have no reason to invade.
I'll try not to stress this point anymore, as I've probably said it enough times already, but the Spanish would believe that they have every right to invade. Simply put, they held onto the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas to the dying end. That treaty gave them all colonial land between two longitudinal lines (I can't remember where they are exactly but it essentially gave them full control over all of North America and most of South America) and it gave them the right to own all trade monopolies there. The Spanish trade policy was somewhat ultra-conservative and increasingly behind the times, in that they didn't recognise any advantage to letting other countries get a share of the pie in exchange for local areas profiting more, but only believed that if Spaniards did 100% of the trading, then they couldn't possibly lose money. To this end, they refused to give up any trading rights at all except through the most strenuously-negotiated measures (and by this I mean as a result of colonial war, by which England acquired petty logging rights in one tiny area of Central America and which it kept for about 5 years before being evicted from the area again. Where they did give up trade rights, generally they revoked them again within years. With this mindset, the Spanish didn't accept money from tariffs, annual payments, "paying their cut" etc as a fair bargain. They just saw that the area should be rightfully theirs and would you please hand it over before we shoot you? The Spanish viewpoint was simply that the Pope had given them North America, and they were free to do with it as they pleased. And they were pleased not to have anyone else in their territory.