If the Portuguese Royal Family had instead been captured, or simply hidden out in unconquered areas of Portugal, what would have been the effects?
Initial suggestions:
- Brazillian trade still restricted with colonial neighbours, causing less wealth in South America and more smuggling
- Poorer administration in Brazil, making it more difficult to maintain unity when independence comes - could it Balkanise a la Central America?
- Less infrastructure, further harming economic development, and reducing the spread of whites inland
- Less spread of literature and enlightenment ideas in Brazil
- Less revenue coming from Brazil to Portugal, thus weakening future finances and threatening it with conquest by Spain
- A potential grab of Brazil by the British, as they did with the Cape Colony, with far-reaching impacts
Initial suggestions:
- Brazillian trade still restricted with colonial neighbours, causing less wealth in South America and more smuggling
- Poorer administration in Brazil, making it more difficult to maintain unity when independence comes - could it Balkanise a la Central America?
- Less infrastructure, further harming economic development, and reducing the spread of whites inland
- Less spread of literature and enlightenment ideas in Brazil
- Less revenue coming from Brazil to Portugal, thus weakening future finances and threatening it with conquest by Spain
- A potential grab of Brazil by the British, as they did with the Cape Colony, with far-reaching impacts