What if the 1890's revolution in the Philippines succeeded?
A good POD for this is for the revolutions to be complete ; all provinces revolt, with full backing of the populace, instead of the relatively few provinces that revolted which were easily put down. I could see the Spanish getting driven out of the country, all these before the deal between the Spanish and the Americans selling the country to the U.S.
Could Protestantism come to the Philippines? Could it fend off Japan in the Future? Could it Industrialize like the other European countries before it by the 1940's? Could the United States have good relations with the Philippines like OTL it has? Could the Philippines become one of the Asian Tigers, or equivalent to Japan today? And lastly, could it have the same population as today, or higher? (Please do note the U.S had a population less than four million at it's formation.) Could the insurgency in Mindanao be averted?
About Democracy ; I saw in my History book that before the Americans came, the laying foundations of Philippine Democracy has been established by Aguinaldo, so it was not really the Americans who brought the Democracy here.
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A good POD for this is for the revolutions to be complete ; all provinces revolt, with full backing of the populace, instead of the relatively few provinces that revolted which were easily put down. I could see the Spanish getting driven out of the country, all these before the deal between the Spanish and the Americans selling the country to the U.S.
Could Protestantism come to the Philippines? Could it fend off Japan in the Future? Could it Industrialize like the other European countries before it by the 1940's? Could the United States have good relations with the Philippines like OTL it has? Could the Philippines become one of the Asian Tigers, or equivalent to Japan today? And lastly, could it have the same population as today, or higher? (Please do note the U.S had a population less than four million at it's formation.) Could the insurgency in Mindanao be averted?
About Democracy ; I saw in my History book that before the Americans came, the laying foundations of Philippine Democracy has been established by Aguinaldo, so it was not really the Americans who brought the Democracy here.
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