Will the Spanish and Portuguese empires retain their colonies in Americas, Africa and Asia had Napoleon never conquer Iberia or Napoleon never borns? Will their economy and culture better shaped than in OTL?
I agree, sadly man worship and idolize Napoleon. They hate it if something happened to their god emperor. I created a similar thread a couple days ago of Spain winning the Pyrenees war. Completely ignored, it's as If all have given up on reviving Spain or Portugal in the 19th century or maybe it comes anyway yes a lot would happen. Without Nappy Spain might be able to retain Louisiana. Also Portugal was destroyed because of Spain's agreement with France. Nappy then stabbed Spain in the back. Here that does not happen. just think with all their manpower they could easily retain and hold their colonies.
Napoleon struck the death blow to the Spanish and Portuguese empires. With him gone they may still survive.
Would that be Fatal History of Portuguese Ceylon?Asia is even worse. To get a world-beating concern out of this enterprise really requires a POD in the 16th or 17th century. In the 17th century, the Portuguese were consistently ousted by the Dutch, who had a technical advantage and a more long-term eye for profit. George Winius has written on quite how badly mismanaged the Portuguese empire in Asia was; someone else (I forget who) described the 17th century Portuguese empire as a failing wholesale grocery business. After 1763, the British are hard to beat in India and the Dutch, by that point, have been firmly ensconced in the Spice Islands for many, many decades.
Would that be Fatal History of Portuguese Ceylon?
Americas, NO, at least for Spain. The only way to prolong Spanish Imperial rule in continental America is to butterfly away the American Revolution. Brasil is a differnet story, since the flight of the Baraganza's to Brasil helped lead to Brasil's separatation under a brach of the royal family.
Americas, NO, at least for Spain. The only way to prolong Spanish Imperial rule in continental America is to butterfly away the American Revolution. Brasil is a differnet story, since the flight of the Baraganza's to Brasil helped lead to Brasil's separatation under a brach of the royal family. Perhaps without Napoleon a Portugese-Brasilian confederation develops, or the two components separate in the same way as OTL.
Aside from the Philippines Iberian colonization in Asia was largely a matter of trading posts and not significantly impacted and African colonies at the time of Napoleon were irrelevant except for the Spanish outposts directly across the straits.