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 French were already supporting them, they’d gladly recognise and become their first trading partner once their independence is secured.
From there there wouldn’t be significant hurdles for wider international recognition.
Collapse of authority in Volga Russia in the 90s, A pagan-plurality Mari republic managed to arise out of the ethnic mess of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan and radicalises, eventually enforces a revitalisation and purification/unsyncretisation process for their traditional religion, hence the...
De Gaulle never had a threatening nuclear deterrent in the context of this scenario - SLBM and IRBM were introduced after his retirement (early-72 and mid-71 respectively), and the Mirage IV force could largely be intercepted before hitting russia in the case the USSR had succesfuly invaded and...
In January 1759 (before the fall of quebec), Etienne de Silhouette (in the 1750s, at times, main royal comissioner of the French indies company, minister of finances, and main negociator (with De la Gallissonniere) of the pre-7YW North american boundary comission) Proposed to exchange Canada for...
It's unlikely to be any different, new world crop dispersion in the old world, subsaharian africa included, generally vastly preceded european settlement and conquest.
It seems like maize production in the western cape is definitely not optimal without elaborate irrigation, and marginal to this day.
At their historical pace, for Cape Town, no
But of course, the mfecane, environmental pressures, technological improvements and appeal of trade will means they will absolutely reach the cape in the 19th century