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How would you get a none ASB scenario where England, Spain, and Portugal all unite? I was thinking a successful Spanish Armada, and then Spain annexes Portugal. How would that have altered history? Could you get it any earlier?
 
How would you get a non-ASB scenario where England, Spain, and Portugal all unite? I was thinking a successful Spanish Armada, and then Spain annexes Portugal. How would that have altered history? Could you get it any earlier?
Romans successfully hold the Pyrenees against the incoming barbarian tribes, losing Gaul and eventually Italia and the Balkans. In the end the rich Iberian provinces remain united as a hold-out of the Roman civlization, leap-frogging across the Bay of Biscay to Brittania (maybe retains Brittany?). The Huns for whatever reason push more South-East into ERE and therefore the knock-on of pushing Germanics into Gaul and across the Channel doesn't happen. Iberia and Britainnia remain Romanized and form a common culture/economy that lasts through the ages.

I think that's about as early as you can get.
 
How would you get a none ASB scenario where England, Spain, and Portugal all unite? I was thinking a successful Spanish Armada, and then Spain annexes Portugal. How would that have altered history? Could you get it any earlier?

What about Philip II and Mary I having a son, who happens to be the only male surviving child of Philip? Portugal could be included due to the same path that lead to the Iberian Union.
 
What about a Tartessian civilization that expands in the SW of the Iberian Peninsula and the British Isles that expands becoming so powerful as to defeat first the carthaginians and then the romans?
 
Romans successfully hold the Pyrenees against the incoming barbarian tribes, losing Gaul and eventually Italia and the Balkans. In the end the rich Iberian provinces remain united as a hold-out of the Roman civlization, leap-frogging across the Bay of Biscay to Brittania (maybe retains Brittany?). The Huns for whatever reason push more South-East into ERE and therefore the knock-on of pushing Germanics into Gaul and across the Channel doesn't happen. Iberia and Britainnia remain Romanized and form a common culture/economy that lasts through the ages.

I think that's about as early as you can get.
Ok let's go with this one, so would this alter history?
 
I want it at no earlier than 1492 though. Thanks for the idea of the earliest you could get.
How about this:

~1,000,000,000 BC, 1,000,000,000 light-years from Earth

Something happens. One billion years later, the ripple effect reaches Earth.
 
The POD is extremely early. However, it has no effect on history as we know it until historical times.

By the way, Max Sinister's Chaos TL includes a temporary union between Castile, Portugal, England, and Scotland. POD is 1200.
 
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