History that make you happy on a personal level

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Filho de mil putas castelhano.

Foi um união ibérica onde foi acordado manter a língua, moeda e exército!
A mulher de Filipe e mãe só falavam português.

Ainda bem que alguém gosta, porque é uma tragédia para os portugueses.

This. 2nd Reich best Reich.

My pick is the time of Discovery.
Mainly Asia.

Portugal become part of Spain. So, was a annexation.

Man, Japan was so colorful before getting cucked by Victorianized modernists.

no it was not an annexation. Portugal still retained all of its unique institutions, laws, traditions, etc. the king of Spain being the king of Portugal also does not equate to Portugal being annexed by Spain. I wish that would have happened but it didn't

>mfw Anglo empire
>Colonial architecture and splendour on the streets of Hong Kong mixed with the rushing-by citizens
>A street vendor calls out in Cantonese and English

It was better under Anglo rule.

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>Portugal still retained all of its unique institutions, laws, traditions, etc.
So did Aragon and Navarra.

When Hannibal killed all those romans at Cannae

I know this is recent, but I honestly have more respect for Tricky Dick as a political operator than any "politician" since Napoleon.
>mfw he talked the South Vietnamese government out of attending the Paris peace talks and ensured the continuation of the Vietnam War for his own political ends

>Russo-Turkish Wars: The Orthodox Empire strikes back.

Reminder that talking shit will always be proceeded by getting hit.

I'm probably on the same level as people who believe the "two nukes wasn't enough" complex about the Orthodox coalition not going farther into Turk territory.

Yay. Literally destabilize the world for centuries. Smart real politics understood that Ottomans should govern Balkans, Caucauses, and ME. That's how you keep the peace. Fucking degenerate romantic nationalists fucked it up.

You gotta wonder how much of that is Nixon personally and how much is Kissinger. That dude is scary good at international straregy.

Caused more problems than it solved. Germany will forever be to big for Europe and too small for the world.

Yet Perry shocked the elites enough that they engaged in a series of reforms.

Trianon

>empire of Germany
>doesn't include the Swiss lands or Austria or Luxembourg or the Low counties and Flanders
WEE

Nelson dying while btfo'ing the Spanish and French navies both at the same time.

>Russia couldn't just give guarantees to Britain that it wouldn't invade Afghanistan and gives Poles a devolved state in exchange for the annexation of Bulgaria, whilst letting Greece be dual catholic orthodox state

The Declaration of Independence.

This as well.

Austria was an ass and the Prussians just got down warring against them for control of the German states. Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Belgium who have a point at.

Also the Austrians are failures of Germans who couldn't be part of the Empire and would start shit.

>ottomans should govern a region ad perpetuam with their retarded system rather than organically let nation states develop and for them to annex peoples and merge cultures
FUCK ALFRED THE GREAT HE RUINED AENGALAND HEPTARCHY WHEN

Suleyman finally fucking the hungarians up after they were a thorn in the side of the ottoman empire for centuries.
Almost every time a crusade was put together against the ottomans the hungarians led it.

The ottoman empire was rapidly modernizing though. An ottoman parlaiment was made and everyone got equal rights be it christian muslim or jew according to the new constitution.

>would start shit
Yeah not like the Bavarians had the most successful of all interim communist revolutions in Germany
Giving the freikorps power and then giving the workers power thus leading to the French marching into the Rhine

So was Russia, but commies still call it a feudal state
And parliaments are always unequal democracies to keep the powerful in charge, they probably still had rotten boroughs (although the previous two points are fine if it's a British Tory government in charge and passing mild reforms)

I will never stop smiling when I think of revolutionaries who stopped killing each other only long enough to kill everyone else.

>united irishmen

>Battle of Alcantara, Invasion of the spanish army in Lisbon and Porto.
Gu-guys it was because w-we wanted!

I really really like Stalin

Well economically both the ottoman and russian empire were backwards states but they were industrializing before WW1 happened.

Yes, but Aragon and Navarra got absorbed by Spain after Portugal became independent again

Peace of Westphalia when paedo-Rome got btfo

You realize the union ended because they wanted to annex Portugal? The nobles were like fuck that and we became fully independent again. It wasnt an annexation. As long as there is 1 portuguese man alive, castilliams will never rule in lusitania, you fucking pussies.

soon again

speaking of alt history, how would the world look like if Spain would have annexed Portugal some time after the union ?

Britain is brought into this war
So then Austria or Prussia depending on the era
If this is pre war of Spanish succession then France intervenes against Spain
If after war of Spanish succession then France intervenes against Portugal

Just like every other kingdom of Spain

>America's sole problem: a lack of sufficient food
>it was for this reason he had come seeking trade with Japan

What did he mean by this? Was it autism?

Funnily enough, the king of Portugal died and the king of Castile, who was a close relative of the deceased, claimed the crown.
Castilians were defeated, so it´s an invasion.
But when Castilians suceeded under Philip II? No, that was an inheritance!

>Dutch and Flemish being German

Just no

t. anglo

>dutch is greater than bavarian
WEW

Yes, yes it is.

forgot pic.

>He thinks sp*in existed as a country back then

It would be a Hassburger world.

The Count-Duke of Olivares wanted to proceed with what was called the 'Union de Armas', basically a true union of the kingdoms at least in the military and economic aspects, because up to then it was a clusterfuck of a variety of different navies, taxes, contributions etc with Castille carrying the bulk of the military and economic effort, others (see Catalonia) literally leeching, others doing their own things totally uncoordinated (see Portugal, and getting fucked hard for it by the Dutch), and so on.

It didn't happened because chimpouts everywhere, though even without that Spain (so Castille) came close to knocking out France at the beggining with a swift succesful attack from Wallonia into France that couldn't be exploited further because of funding problems.

Had the Union happened there's a likely chance France would have been cucked and in consequence, the Imperials would have won the German theatre.

>Brazil as capital of the Portuguese Empire under D. João VI

:)

The madmen actually did it