How they fucked this up?
Spending money on retarded wars in Europe
debt
>>18079537There were less than a thousand people living north of Mexico City and probably even less concentrated on 1/8th the land area of South America. The economy was propped up entirely by indios and nigger slaves clawing shiny rocks out of the ground. This map is just a spic power fantasy.
>>18079537should have never given up Portugal's colonies to the dutchiesSpaniards fucked it up by fucking over Portugal. They'd rather see the prots steal India than respect the terms of the personal union guaranteeing the independence of Portugal's institutions.
>>18079537Undeveloped land.
>>18079548>There were less than a thousand people living north of Mexico CityThe alliance that took down the aztecs with an army of over 100,000 men came from north of modern day mexico city
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They did not own that much land in Africa and India
>>18079537the cia invented siesta
>>18079537WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS MAP
>>18080338It didn't you actual fucking illiterate piece of shit retard. They came from Tlaxcala, Cempoala and several states in the Valley of Mexico, which are Southeast, East and immediately around (now within) Mexico City, respectively.
>>18079558thisspain's distrust of the Portuguese turned a minor annoyance one has to navigate around to a self-fulfilling prophecy concerning the forceful lowering of autonomy of a (mostly) peacefully integrated people.
>>18079537The Spanish and Portuguese are the European powers that were the first to start colonization and the among the last their colonies. They were far more successful than other European colonial empires.
>>18079537andale andale iariva ariva
>>18079537Letting the Union be lead by an Assburger instead of a Portuguese king
>>18079537No domestic manufacturing industry
