![]() ![]() ![]() Portugal in OTL attempted to settle the region. In TTL where there it a greater iberial population, the need for cod will be even greater. Cod is an excellent and cheap protein source and Iberia was already crazy about the product. The one region in North America Spain had vital interests was the OTL New France. ![]() Also, this TL has butterflied away the Chichimec War, or at least most of it, which means the Spanish have the gates open to northern Mexico and the southwestern US decades before OTL, which could translate into the Spanish settling in California. Then the rest of the US east coast and Canada could be settler by French, Englishmen or even the Habsburgs through their Burgundian inheritancy. I don't expect the Spanish to stablish themselves across the entire Americas since there's no way you can project enough naval power to abort any foreign attempt at settlement, but it looks like the Spanish could try to push for more settlement in the boundaries of the continent, since by the current progress of the TL neither Axacán (Virginia) nor the Magellan colonies had been stablished IOTL, and the Spanish showed interest in both areas. I think it works the other way, the more the Spanish are succesful in stablishing a presence in the Americas that turns out to be a economic boost, the more other European powers will try to imitate them. ![]()
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