WI The Reconquista Continued

Lusitania

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To be fair we're pretty far from certain of the population of North America pre contact. 2m is the lowest estimate I've seen, but the highest is 18 million, with numerous historians coming up with numbers in between. I personally take David Henige's position that pretty much all the current estimates rely on applying arbitrary formulas to extrapolate from random numbers found in unreliable historical sources.

In situations where you have just two languages coming into contact (in this case, Spanish and Arabic) you don't really see Creole formation IIRC. Creoles happen as the result of one superstrate combined with multiple substrates, which for example can happen by importing slaves that speak numerous African languages to a French ruled colony to give a French-superstrate creole with Kikongo and Fon substrates. Without a significant amount of linguistic diversity, you usually just see people switching languages completely from Arabic to Spanish as they move up the social hierarchy, or perhaps code-switching between the two depending on the social context; but creole formation doesn't seem plausible.

You could end up with language evolving and taking on many words from Arabic.
 
Have la Baltraneja emerge victorious so *Spain is the union of Castille and Portugal rather than Castille and Aragon (no clue what this does to Aragon or Italy, probably means the French get pieces of both IMO). Turning their backs on Europe they avoid the Habsburgs, instead focusing on first North Africa (as OTL but more successful) and then the New World and beyond.
*Spain's capital is probably Seville (or Lisbon for that matter). Absent involvement in Europe I think they can manage most of what both empires did OTL overseas and a bit more besides.

This, IMO, would probably be the best pod for fulfil, if not the whole North Africa as ask by the OP...at least a more Atlantic and African focussed ALT Spain (Portugal plus Castile) and in consequence besides of a bigger and more permanent expansion in Morocco and some of Argelia, at least a delayed discovery of America and of course, if happen... a late and very different type of approach to the discovered lands and its economical or commercial exploitation.

Also Aragón would remain focused on the Mediterranean and in rivalry with Venetia and guess that in alliance with strong alliances with Navarre and France that given the Italian ambitions of the French Kings in TTL (with a different Battle of Toro) would lead to, if not to a full dynastic union within France and Aragon, at least to a marriage alliance between both royal houses.
Anyway, would expect to more Mediterranean focused French politics that would probably back and share the Aragon Mediterranean interest.

Also, this would mean for France (or even for ALT France-Aragon) and this ALT Spain that the OTL Italian wars besides of be affected by the butterflies wouldn't have reason to be fought.

For France this would mean no waste its material and mainly human resources in decades of wars in Italy and against the Habsburg menace of encirclement and wouldn't have any reason to seek and make an alliance with the Ottomans. But in alliance with Aragon to conquest the Barbary enclaves in Argelia, Tunisia fought Barbary or Ottoman corsairs in the Maghreb. But mainly guess that would be against Venice, but guess that mainly against the Ottomans.

This Alt Spain or rather Alt Portugal, given that the Ruler, that would be the Portuguese monarch and the strategic goals would be decided in Lisboa/Sevilla and this would be an Atlantic one, that would mean that would be full focused in strengthens and develop both its foothold in Morocco and increasing its control of the commercial traffic with East Africa, the India and mainly the Spice Islands and the Far East with Europe.

Also in TTL the way to develop and get the economical revenue could be both somewhat different, more spread, but stronger and with bigger resources and better means to reach its goals and for defend them than OTL.
Also this Alt Monarch would have at the Castilian army (and the bigger than Portugal Castilian pool of resources that would help to form a bigger and better army that in OTL (Portugal or Spain).
This would be an army that how was showed in OTL by each one the new joint army would become in one of more strength in Europe and with its leadership and soldiers (that as OTL would be veterans both in the internal/dynastic wars and in the Reconquista wars) could be guess that easily would show again, TTL, because this army was considered as one of better and more capable to adapt and to be strategically innovative and tactically flexible from Europe.
Finally must be taken into account that in TTL this Alt Spain/Portugal besides of a bigger and stronger navy would has a greater population and Economy.
 
You could end up with language evolving and taking on many words from Arabic.

Yes this is true, although most likely this would result in the formation of a dialect and not a wholly separate/mutually incomprehensible language, much like Ivorian and European French. On a very dramatic level this could lead to a language split like the Hindi-Urdu split, in which Hindustani split into two gramatically identical languages based entirely off of differing adoption of lexicon (Urdu borrowing from Persian/Arabic, Hindi from Sanskrit). However such a language split is frankly quite unlikely to occur unless it is motivated by state actors that are invested in linguistic purity, much as Hindu and Pakistani nationalists forced the creation of modern Hindi and Urdu from Hindustani. It would require a very contrived set of circumstances to get a nationalist state in the Maghreb that decides to purge all the Romance words from the language and replace them with Arabic. Such an extensive amount of lexical borrowing to result in a separate language is not likely to occur organically without some top-down linguistic purism.
 
You could end up with language evolving and taking on many words from Arabic.
Arguably, Spanish already has a significant amount of Arabic in it.

Still, maybe we get more languages like Maltese; Semitic with Latinate trappings and orthography.
 
Have la Baltraneja emerge victorious so *Spain is the union of Castille and Portugal rather than Castille and Aragon (no clue what this does to Aragon or Italy, probably means the French get pieces of both IMO). Turning their backs on Europe they avoid the Habsburgs, instead focusing on first North Africa (as OTL but more successful) and then the New World and beyond.
*Spain's capital is probably Seville (or Lisbon for that matter). Absent involvement in Europe I think they can manage most of what both empires did OTL overseas and a bit more besides.
Or, Castile-Portugal and Aragon-Sicily become competitors in North Africa....
 
The thing is the that for Portugal and Spain to have any chance of conquering North Africa they need to not attack Jews, and conversos. Thus reducing Dutch snd Ottoman strength.

Philippines is important for Spanish access to Chinese market. Maybe they not conquer all.

If we butterfly the Bruneian Conquest of Tondo or some details of the Conquest of Tondo, Portugal can get the Northern half of Luzon...I think Spain can get Visayas and the territory of the Rajahnate of Butuan in this scenario, the problem is that would the Spanish would be interested to conquer the areas ruled by the Bruneians.
 
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