Recent content by TheKutKu

Yeah, given the importance of New Christians in the Iberian oceanic trade of the 16th century, If you can somehow keep the Iberian Jews in Iberia and allow the to work and trade in the indies , then you basically have a truly large seafaring Jewish community.

They were "cooked" when 59% of White South Rhodesians refused to become yet another province of South Africa in 1922.

Alright, so a big 7 yw POD to change the circumstances of the ARW isn't allowed?

Always thought an ibn Hafsun victory would just be an open door for Fatimid influence and even conquest of Iberia.

So POD can’t be before the 1770s? Modern day only? No 1900?

Is " What if the United States had lost the American Revolutionary War?" the scenario or the POD?

Interesting

Sure, but "we just overrun Germany using nukes only to be stopped by scary French with their nukes" was a possibility. Nobody wants a strategic nuclear war, even after nukes are already flying.

The relation between a Portuguese cape and the remains of Portuguese influence in the Zambezi and Zimbabwean highland would definitely be interesting , if the latter can even last as long. Thanks I wasn’t aware of this paper, reading it it seems a dutch Moçambique would have a decent chance of...

I mean, it’s not ASB If this is a deliberate maneuver to destroy any legitimacy of this ruler - and her wife. A political suicidal action that brings another person down with you is heterodox but not inconceivable.

In the case of about a 1607-8 Dutch capture of Mozambique, the Portuguese still have significant inland presence in mozambique, With potentially sofala as a secondary access, this may be enough to be able to mount a successful counter attack campaign if aided with naval assets, the VOC’s...

Yeah, the whole "point" of portuguese southern africa is that it's "just another fort" alongside the way to the indies, but one founded very early in the first couple decade of the 16th century. settled by relatively modest amount of settlers, degredados and clergymen, and that, with virtually...

South Africa will likely be subordinate to goa/Portuguese Indies, as far as the prestige is considered, it'll only increase it, so if we take an only binary point of view between the west (brazil) and the east (indies), I think the former will likely always be secondary to the later in such...

Portuguese Southern Africa gives them access to, before even gold or silver, a lot more copper, either directly or through interior trade, this would definitely help the trade balance of portuguese merchants in Asia, make them less dependent on european copper sources and copper trade...

The Huguenot part of the colony, if not the whole thing, cannot survive the french wars of religion.