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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
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
Potential brides for Dom Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil ?
Challenge/Plausibility check: Brazilian Empire gaining access to the Pacific coastline
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
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
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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
Challenge: South American superpower
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