south america

Hello, everyone! This is my first time posting practically anything in this site, so I hope I'm not breaking any rule. I think it's important to warn that english isnt my first language, so expect some misspellings and grammatical mistakes, but I'll try to avoid these as much as possible. The...

A while ago, I made a thread about a more dominant Portugal in the Iberian Peninsula. The details of the discussion don't matter much, but it eventually boggled down to the Inca not being conquered by Spain (or any colonial power, such as France or Portugal, for that matter). I didn't give that...

While the 1930 Revolution absolutely deserves to be called such, due to the sheer scale of the change it unleashed, its name is also a bit deceptive in that it implies it was a bloodless event when it was anything but. Fierce battles were fought between the revolutionaries and supporters of the...

"Libertad Y Orden", Liberty and Order Notes From Me, the Author Hello there gentlemen and gentlewomen! My name's Autopilot, but you can also just call me Auto. Today, I want to present y'all a project I've been thinking about for quite a while now. While I am not new to this website, and in...

He ‘ aroha, he tatagi mata ki te rangi. Mata Ki Te Rangi suffers and weeps. Mata Ki Te Rangi, 1357 Ku'ingari was gently shaken awake by her father. “Poki, we need to leave,” he whispered urgently. “The Hanau E’epe are back.” She flinched upon hearing this, jerking away from his hand. Sleep...

(an actual timeline) * denotes changes from OTL (explanations in parentheses) c1807 Britain successfully invades & captures Chiloé from Spain* (OTL Britain unsuccessfully invaded Montevideo) Chiloé's trade booms as it is opened to British commerce 1808 local junta begins rule the...

The "Guianas" (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) are sparsely populated South American countries (some would say culturally part of the Caribbean), which stand out for sharing a very different history compared to other Latin countries - such as having a substantial Hindu pop, or literally...

Thinking about some different scenarios for South America. One thing struck me is about Asian diaspora/immigration to South America nations. I know, Brazil has a very noticeable Japanese diaspora, also Peru to a lesser extend. I've read about some Koreans and Chinese here and there, but I would...

This account may be new, but I have been reading all sorts of different alternate-history fictions posted here for a long time, at long last, it is my time now to entertain others with a new timeline. I have noticed (or at least not seen) no one attempting to create a timeline with a similar...

Chapter 1: Prelude The lands where the Republic of Acre is located today were, until the mid-19th century, occupied only by indigenous tribes, despite the treaty of Madrid in 1750 formalizing a new demarcation of lands between Portuguese America and the other Spanish colonies, the...

If we can manage it, this happens sometime in the 19th century such that the armaments industry is well capable of designing and constructing a wide range of warships all the way to dreadnought battleships when that era is reached. Following that of course fast battleships, carriers and so on...

It's basically that the title says, here we will discuss the effects in the portuguese empire and in the world in general if carlota was less hardline and was more sucefull in realizing your goals Ps:it's my first post here and i'm an iniciant in these thing of althis so please pardon me if i...

To put you in context, it was a diplomatic crisis that occurred between August 9 and 18, 1987, between Venezuela and Colombia as a result of the incursion of a Colombian corvette in waters not delimited between both countries. Although the crisis was finally resolved thanks to the intervention...

what would have happened if the battle of wagram had been decisively won by the austrians? Would an early dissolution of the French empire be possible? In particular, how would it have influenced Spanish events? in this precocious victory the Spaniards should be much stronger and be able to...

The defeat of Confederation forces at the Battle of Yungay in Peru marked that short-lived nation's dissolution. The president of the Confederation, Andres de Santa Cruz, went into exile and the nation of Bolivia suffered decades of petty dictatorships. Over the next century Bolivia lost nearly...

Disclaimer, I'm talking about this guy, not the 18th century rebel leader. Túpac Amaru was the last Sapa Inca of Vilcabamba, the city that resisted the Spanish conquest for decades after the fall of the Inca Empire. Following one final Spanish offensive to conquer Vilcabamba once and for all in...

Martín de Álzaga was a Spanish merchant of Basque origin who migrated to Buenos Aires at a young age, gaining both wealth and political power as the years went by. He was, together with Santiago de Liniers, one of the main leaders of the resistance against the British invasions of the River...

So I took a cursory look at the Wikipedia article about the Fábrica Argentina de Aviones, and I found out about these two scrapped projects of a jet interceptor and fighter, respectively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_I.Ae._37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_I.Ae._48 According to their...

What if Brazil never managed to expand south of these borders (circa 1638), so they never get Rio Grande do Sul nor Cisplatina. How could it happen and how would it affect Brazil and other countries (that area could be part of Argentina or become its own country) I think Brazil would be poorer...

While Pedro I, first emperor of Brazil, had many mistresses during his life, his most famous and scandalous relationship was with Domitila de Castro, who quickly rose through the ranks of the court and was eventually given the title of Marchioness of Santos. As if the openness of their affair...