Max Sinister
Banned
Do you mean "with a post-1492 POD"? If not, in my Chaos TL, England has it (although Sweden temporarily controls the north).
Do you mean "with a post-1492 POD"? If not, in my Chaos TL, England has it (although Sweden temporarily controls the north).
IOTL, when the Portuguese arrived, the Tupi tribes were starting to form a kind of confederation in the coast of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Espírito Santo, but nothing very stable. Maybe they could reach some kind of organization like the Iroquois, but it's not very likely. And even then it would be only the Southeast coast of Brazil, you still have all the rest of the territory to deal with.
2. No, but the name makes me hungry now for Mexican food
Maurice of Nassau Siegen I think was not sacked so much as he was offered a better post in his native country of Cleves. Siegen had some great reforms and during his post in Dutch Brazil alot of the Portuguese population remained culturally autonomous and the only major change was they were shipping sugar to wealthy Dutch ports as opposed to Portugal, which was stagnating under the Iberian Union. I think, had the Dutch conquered a few more Brazillian forts and maybe held onto Salvidor- and kept Siegen around for a bit longer, they could've aquired a peace-deal that grafted them a portion of Brazil. That's alot going on though- not that it wasn't possible just, well. A broad idea.
What's interesting is whether Dutch Brazil would remain Dutch even if they managed to somehow wrestle it out of Portugal's hands. The British eyed almost all Dutch possessions, and in 20 years time from about the point where Dutch Brazil began to go downhill (1640s) they would take New Amsterdam. Would they sack Recife and take it too?
maybe if they were united by the Jesuits? (nominally under Papal rule...hey lookit, a Vatican colony, of sorts)
A Norhten part of Brazil remaining Dutch was very plausible. It Did not materialise because company board room members were not satisfied with the gains they won. Nassau Siegen, really enjoyed Brasil, he realy acted as a king, and he ahd the skills to keep it together.
Suppose it remained utch there would come an influx of setlers, not Dutch but protestant. LIke in New York (new Amsterdam) most setlrs were also not from Holland.
By the way New Amsterdam stayed New York, because after the 2nd Anglo Dutch war the Dutch, which they won, they trade for Suriname and lucrative trade deals, at that time much more valuable than the small city of New Amsterdam with its bunch of farmers and fur traders. A colony the size of Northen Brasil ruled by a popular vice roy as Nassau Siegen would not be traded easaly away as an at time insignificant trade post as New York/New Amsterdam