Wank Spanish Empire: Spanish conquer all of Americas

Spainish at Tordesillas push border to middle of Atlantic and get Brazil

In New England they establish shipyards since Latin America lacks timber

Armada rules the western Atlantic preventing any non Spanish colonies

From Newfoundland to Straits of Magellan they build naval forts for Armada

East American coast is fully settled with Unrestricted colonization for any non first sons of castilian Catholics

Brazil style slavery in all of Americas making Spanish crown richest in the world
 
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Spainish at Tordesillas push border to middle of Atlantic and get Brazil

In New England they establish shipyards since Latin America lacks timber

Armada rules the western Atlantic preventing any non Spanish colonies

From Newfoundland to Straits of Magellan they build naval forts for Armada

East American coast is fully settled with Unrestricted colonization for any non first sons of castilian Catholics

Brazil style slavery in all of Americas making Spanish crown richest in the world
The reason they didn't do this OTL is they absolutely couldn't.
Let's not forget a big reason the Tordesillas was able to get pushed is because Spain got trounced in naval warty the Portuguese.
If you invade Portugal to stop them from doing that, Portuguese sailors will just flee to the competition, like happened after the Union of Crowns
 
You're never going to have this unless the Spanish crown has Portugal at its centerpiece, making the Treaty of Tordesillas effective free reign for the Iberians to co-colonize the Americas. You could easily have the Portuguese set up shop in ex. Newfoundland and New England far earlier than OTL's colonization attempts if they're not being coerced by the Spanish due to the treaty.
 
You will also need for Spain to open up colonization amongst all of its constituent crowns, ideally while Portugal is also united with the Castillian and Aragonese crowns. The Spanish didn't encourage larger scale settlement efforts amongst it's populace until the Bourbons. Not evicting all the conversos, Jews and Muslims could help, as they could contribute to the population and settlement of the new colonies.

Most importantly, the Spanish need to encourage their colonies to have free trade both with themselves, with other countries, and with Spain in the long run.
 
Spain, through military conquest and dynastic and political maneuvering, manages to unify all of Western Europe and recreate the Western Roman Empire. Thus, the Spanish are the only colonizers in the Americas.
 
Spain, through military conquest and dynastic and political maneuvering, manages to unify all of Western Europe and recreate the Western Roman Empire. Thus, the Spanish are the only colonizers in the Americas.
How would Habsburgs get France their arch rivals and equals in strength
 

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How would Habsburgs get France their arch rivals and equals in strength
the queen mary and Philip ii Has a son who inherits England, in the French religious wars The English and Spanish Habsburgs Put Henry of guise On the throne or other friendly French Catholic,In the war of thirty years the English, Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs Defeat Protestants and Habsburgs Spanish and English help Austrians to centralize Holy Roman Empire, well maybe it would work?
 
Spain, through military conquest and dynastic and political maneuvering, manages to unify all of Western Europe and recreate the Western Roman Empire. Thus, the Spanish are the only colonizers in the Americas.
Finally, somebody who appreciates OP's thought and follows it to its logical conclusion.
How would Habsburgs get France their arch rivals and equals in strength
So they're equal in strength with a Spain that conquered all of the Americas? Dunno, maybe they did the same on Africa. Or maybe sent a conqueror who single handedly annexed the HRE and the Ottomans!
Yeah, it sounds something even this ultra-wank Spain would have problems with.
 
Only when Portugal and Castille (or Spain) unite is when you can have such a country colonize all of the Americas for itself. And it would be much better not being ruled by the Habsburgs too.

Basically you need to have Spain that’s more engaged with colonizing Americas than with getting involved in wars in Europe. Do that and I can see all of the Americas under Spanish rule (except maybe Alaska and Greenland).
 
Miguel da Paz survives. This does two things. It unites Portugal to Castile and Aragon, and it stops the Habsburgs from rising in Spain, which takes away their European entanglements, so they can just focus on colonization. Once it's all united, Tordesillas becomes obsolete. England and France were really late to the game, and I don't know if a Trastamara monarch would have reacted to the English Reformation the way Philip II did in real life. If so, it's possible that the added strength of Portugal makes it succeed. That eliminates England from the game. I don't quite know how to deal with France prior to them taking some areas, but England ended up taking the French areas in real life, why wouldn't Spain be able to here?
 
MI think it'd be interesting to see the relationship between the self-sufficient descendents of Spanish settlers in America & Canada, versus the mixed caste-based systems of Mexico & the rest of Latin america.
 
Miguel da Paz survives. This does two things. It unites Portugal to Castile and Aragon, and it stops the Habsburgs from rising in Spain, which takes away their European entanglements, so they can just focus on colonization. Once it's all united, Tordesillas becomes obsolete. England and France were really late to the game, and I don't know if a Trastamara monarch would have reacted to the English Reformation the way Philip II did in real life. If so, it's possible that the added strength of Portugal makes it succeed. That eliminates England from the game. I don't quite know how to deal with France prior to them taking some areas, but England ended up taking the French areas in real life, why wouldn't Spain be able to here?
I think the alliance between Spain and England will be there. The Spanish monarch might be disappointed but the Anglo-Portuguese alliance might stand. Though I don’t know much about the Portuguese response to Henry VIII’s Protestant turn.
 
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