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Hi, welcome to my new thread called "Spain and Dutch Global Power and Austria in New World" is my TL

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A World where United States is different, New Amsterdam isn't exist or become New Vienna, Dutch seizes Brazil except southern part, Confederate States of America existed from 1860 to WWII, no August Coup, no Velvet Divorce, Soviet Union still exists, no Taiwan, Short Bakamatsu Era to 1740, Poland-Lithuania still exists, France retains Algeria, Spain gains whole of Morocco, Spanish Empire still exists, and no Spanish American War

Chapter I: Age of Reformation, Discovery, and Colonization, Part I, 1560-1648.

In the beginning, the Age of Reformation is also started on Denmark, then it spreads to entire Northern Europe, Northern Germany and Low Countries, engulfing Catholic kingdoms and duchies that lead to Wars of Religion, Reformation spreads into France, Towns of Switzerland and Central Europe, but it suddenly spreads into Northern Spain, the first protestant church is Llivia, Protestant Reformation spreads into Northern Catalonia, Protestant teachings were smuggled into Spain by Spaniards such as Julián Hernández, who in 1557 was condemned by the Inquisition and fled into Mountains of Pyrenees where Spaniards are impossible to search for Heretics [1], By 1559-1583, More than Spanish Protestants and Lutherans fled to Mountains of Pyrenees of Andorra and Northern Catalonia and Aragon or in hiding or to who were able to flee the country were to be found in at least a dozen cities in Europe such as Geneva, where some of them embraced Calvinist teachings. Those who fled to England were given support by the Church of England. A Catalan Calvinist Named "Josep Lluis Arment" also translated New Testament into Catalan, meanwhile Henry Hudson was hired by Austrian Archduke and Holy Roman Emperor Matthias II [2], to fund an exploration to passage to Asia in order to desperate survival, Austrians managed to resist the Protestant Reformation, while Spain deports Moriscos to Guale [3], present-day USA and U.S. States of Georgia, South Carolina, King of Spain has planed to deport Spanish Protestants and Lutherans, but it never succeeded when English managed to knock down the Spanish colony in the Eastern Seabord, with the help of Spanish Protestants and Lutherans, Austrians managed to bog down the Ottomans in the Hungary. Thirty Years' War also triggered by a Protestant Revolt in Bohemia,

Back in the Americas, the Dutch had managed to keep Northern Brazil with Peace Treaty with Portugal. On the other hand, Austrians discovered, Fugger Bay [4], Schlinden Island [5], Oberheim Island [6], Austrians established a new colony in Manhattan and named "New Vienna", Hudson named the Upper River called "Neu Rhein"[7].


In Asia, Spaniards also improved friendly relations with Japanese States and established a colony in Edo called "Fort Fernandez"[8], in Edo for Trade and Knowledge, Spain opened new relations with Indian states, in exchange of gaining trading ports. Portugal expanded into whole island of Celebes, the English also gained trading port in India in exchange of importing Indian Goods into England, Ottomans, now got war with Persia for long [9].

Back in Europe, Thirty Years' War also raged Europe, but it spreads into Northern Spain, raging revolts against Spanish Crown, in Catalonia, a mutiny lead by Protestant Spanish Soldiers, named Emmanuel d'Avila [10], He said "Revenge is a must!", as he was a staunch supporter of Protestant managed to encircle Zaragoza, but it ended with a retreat as Catholic Spanish forces managed to chase them. Spain helps the Habsburgs, hoping to crush the Dutch Rebels and Dutch Republic, but it is distracted since Protestant Rebellion against Spain, while in Northern Europe, Protestant Powers such as Denmark and Sweden. Protestants managed to fight back against Catholic Powers, but France entered war on the side of Protestants, in order to counter the Habsburgs and Catholic powers.


Thirty Years' War devastated entire regions, with famine and disease resulting in high mortality in the populations of the German and Italian states, Northern Spain, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Southern Netherlands. Both mercenaries in fighting armies traditionally looted or extorted tribute to get operating funds, which imposed severe hardships on the inhabitants of occupied territories. The war also bankrupted most of the combatant powers.

The Dutch Republic enjoyed contrasting fortune; it ended its revolt against Spain in 1648 and subsequently enjoyed a time of great prosperity and development, known as the Dutch Golden Age, during which it became one of the world's foremost economic and naval powers. The Thirty Years' War ended with the treaties of Osnabrück and Münster, part of the wider Peace of Westphalia. The war altered the previous political order of European powers. The rise of Bourbon France, the curtailing of Habsburg ambition, giving full rights to Protestants, Lutherans, and Calvinists in Spain, and the ascendancy of Sweden as a great power created a new balance of power on the continent, with France emerging from the war strengthened and increasingly dominant in the latter part of the 17th century, weakening Spain as a Catholic Power, leading to war of succession and the subsequent rise of Parliamentary democracy in Spain and it's colonies.

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[1] Julián Hernández was survived, and fled to Pyrenees Moutains
[2] Instead of Dutch, the Austrians had gained interest and entered in the Age of Discovery.
[3] Deportation of Morsicos to North Africa has been butterflied, it permanently settled and mingled with Black Slaves, Today, Morsicos are the biggest ethnic group in the United States.
[4] Oyster Bay, New Jersey
[5] Staten Island, New York, NY
[6] Ellis Island, New York, NY
[7] Hudson River
[8] Instead of Portuguese, Dutch and Spaniards had good relations with Japan even in Bakumatsu Era, it has ports until 1867
[9] Analogue to Byzantine-Persian Wars
[10] Fictional Name
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