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If an Eastern Orthodox country colonized the new world, how would its policies differ from Catholic and Protestant colonization of the Americas?

Is it any better or worse for the native empires and confederations?

Some scenarios for Orthodox colonizers:
  • Surviving Byzantine empire retains or reconquers Baetica as a buffer zone for Mauretania and Africa.
  • A large army of Magyars resettles in Iberia, slowly building a kingdom that takes the whole peninsula. Although assimilated by the native Spanish and Moors, they enter communion with Constantinople to oppose the Pope, who is a Holy Roman puppet.
  • Cnut's Northern empire survives or is recreated by his descendants. The Norse, remaining obsessed with Russia and Constantinople, and to oppose the Holy Roman Empire, enter communion with Constantinople and slowly adapt Greek/Russian rites.
  • Byzantine mercenaries, like a reverse Catalan Company, take over parts of Iberia and eventually the full peninsula, creating a Spanish kingdom with Greek rulers and Orthodox faith.

The new world is discovered at around the same time.
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