Planned Rewrite for Ivangorod Prosperous

Do the Portuguese have the ability to project power beyond a few coastal cities? Would they play it more like Britain than Spain, make it more of a political game rather than direct military control over South America?
 
I'm not sure on that, but if the Spaniards could do a bit worse in Central America plus a stronger Portuguese political stability (ie: try no Iberian Union), then Portugal can be able to expand a bit further. I'm also aiming for an earlier growth of Ivangorod as early as the late 1490s into the early 1500s (Ivan III was the one who founded Ivangorod) in order to have the PoD I need to weaken England. With that kind of PoD, we might as well try to prevent Vasily III's poisoning at the hands of the boyars, leading to a saner Ivan IV. Barring that, we'll try to have a PoD that allows his mother to survive.
 
I haven't started it yet, but I was wondering if Ivangorod can become a large, bustling port pre-Ivan IV. As in Ivan III would try to invite Greek intellectuals and builders in the aftermath of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. How can we get the Greek intellectuals to head to Russia instead of Italy though, that is the question. Of other ideas that I wanted to implement would be the conquest of Brazil by either the Dutch, the Danes or the English.
 
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You know if the Spaniards fail in South America, you would, quite potentially doom any possibility of European colonization in the Americas.

One of the battles in which the Spaniards could have lost was against the Incas. If that would provide a setback for the colonization of the Americas, then it could provide other nations like Portugal, the Netherlands, the Nordics, several German states and even France to start colonizing as late as 1600s.
 
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