Um well, yea, they did; but that's besides the point.
First of all Spain didn't take over the Lowlands, they inherited them. The Lowlands reveled, and Spain, this Spain, the Spanish empire of the early modern period, failed to suppress it. If somehow Spain is able to take Japan (which it won't be able to, period, nor well it want to) it's going to face bigger, louder, stronger, more intense rebellions then in the lowlands, and much much further away, with much less to gain from fighting them.
Exactly, Spain inherited the Lowlands like England inherited West of France... and what? inherited or not.. the issue is English bowmen won in Azincourt (1415) or in Crecy (1346) like Spanish infantrymen won in Glemboux (1578) or in Jemmingen (1568) or in Valenciennes (1656)...
Also the Dutchmen, Englishmen and the rest of protestant Europe failed to drive out the Spaniards... Spain yielded Low Lands in 1714-1715 (after a civil war) to another Catholic Empire: Austria.
Because that is even less likely,
False. The spaniards fought japaneses... Portuguese not... Spaniards had plans to attack Nagasaki... portuguese not...It is so real that you can read them..."
Portuguese and Spanish Projects for the conquest of Southeast Asia. 1580 - 1600 in Journal of Asian History. Vol.III.Nº 2.1969"
Yes, the Spaniards thought to take
Nagasaki in Japan and Canton in China... to conquest Canton they thought it was enough 60 Spaniards as maximum.
about the Spanish campaign in Siam "
Relacion y derrotero del Reyno de Çiam para el Rey Nuestro Senor" (Relation and course of the kingdom of Siam for the King, Our Lord")
Spanish were not superhumans who were simply better at everything then everyone.
The superhumans were japaneses... that failed in Philippines, Cambodia or Siam... and failed in Korea...40 soldiers beating 1.000 enemies is a feat.. 400 soldiers in Mexico, 13 in Peru, 35 in Bolivia, 200 in Taiwan..120 in Cambodia, 60 in Tonkin...16 in Chili...so begun the conquests.. a few soldiers. In Cambodia they fought for years against Khmer, Siamese, malay, japanese and chinese...in Phom Penh, in 1596, defeated 3.000 chinese (they were 60). Even in defeat they were fearful: Kinsale, December 12, 1601: ...
Spaniards managed to destroy twenty guns and kill more than seven hundred English, but they had to return to the city, unable to cross enemy lines. Spanish casualties were relatively low, which encouraged the troops. The Spanish casualties were 20 KIA and 70 WIA...Englishmen 700 KIA, 20 Guns and hundreds WIA...
You say the Japanese infantry was better... I want sources, name of battles, actions...I would like you say me the name of the battle where the Japanese (samurai, ronin, ashigarus, wakos, mercenaries etc etc) beat the Spanish Army... Cambodia? Malaysia? Vietnam? Philippines? Where?
Nobody is superhuman but according to It was told by
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, his brother, Friedrich told to her "
The Spaniards.The Spaniards! ... These men wanted to be too much. "
They weren´t supermen but yes, they played to be Gods...only the Gods can think to conquest Cambodia with 100 men or China with 2.000
And this thread is about Portugal... How was Portugal going to conquest Japan? When? 1550? 1750? When?