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Points of Divergence : Brazil

Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Brazil.

Prehistory

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Antiquity

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The Middle Ages

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Early Modern history

Challenge : With a POD after 1500, make Brazil as powerful as the US

WI: No Brazil

Challenge: Preserve Tupi as the dominant language of colonial Brazil

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18th and 19th century

Challenge: Balkanized South America (with a POD between 1700-1890 AD)

Effects of no Peninsular War on Latin American Wars for Independence ?

Challenge: Loyalist South American Colonies

WI: Dom Pedro I. doesn't abdicate in Portugal and Brazil

WI: Brazilian victory in Cisplatine War

WI: Riograndense (Piratini) and Juliana republics gain independence from Brazil

Plausibility check: Favourable peace treaty to Argentina after war with Brazil

A Brazilian Uruguay, effects in Argentina ?

Challenge: Keep Uruguay (Cisplatine) in Brazil until today

Survival of Gran Colombia

Potential brides for Dom Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil ?

Challenge/Plausibility check: Brazilian Empire gaining access to the Pacific coastline

WI: Brazilian Papal States

Plausibility check: Brazilian Angola ?

Challenge: Brazil and Angola as one country (after 1800, for at least 20 years)

WI Maximilian of Mexico marries Amélia of Brazil

WI emperor Pedro II. has another son ?

War of the Triple Alliance PODs

The Argentine-Brazilian War of 1874

Challenge: A world war in the Western Hemisphere

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20th century

WI decent governance in the 20th century Latin America ?

Challenge: Nationalist Brazil in the 1910s

Avoiding the decline of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay as first world nations during the 20th century

Plausibility check: A fascist South America ?

Wider Latin American involvement in WWII

More "Economic Tigers" (with a POD between 1945 and 1975)

Plausibility check: Was a communist Brazil ever possible ?

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21st century

Brazilian space WI: The 2003 VLS-1 rocket accident doesn't occur

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Miscellaneous

Larger nations of South America

Foreign relations of Brazil next to a British Argentina

Challenge: With a POD after 1500, make Brazil as powerful as the US

What would be the largest possible size of Brazil ?

Challenge: A Brazilian superpower

Challenge: Brazil as a superpower (with a post-1800s POD)

Challenge: Make South America's history less rife with poverty and political corruption

A much stronger Latin America

Challenge: South American superpower

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ASB / ISOT / Geological

2012 Brazil ISOTed to 1942 Drakaverse

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See Also

Brazil

Brazilian Timelines and Scenarios

Useful Resources about Brazil


List of Countries by POD

Points of Divergence Main Directory