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QuantumBranching — The Viceroyalty of America
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Another alternate North America, one in which Columbus sailed for Henry VIII, not Ferdinand and Isabella, and Mexico was colonized by the British rather than the Spanish.Less accustomed to conquest and rule over alien peoples than the Reconquista Spanish, the British were slower and more tentative in stamping out native culture, and although the Indians still died off en masse from imported disease and human sacrifice was forbidden, the majority of the population remained speakers of native languages, a number of native states managed to survive as British allies and puppets, and European settlement occured mostly in the more thinly populated areas of the north.
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But British colonialist (a.k.a Americans , Australians and New Zealanders) almost totally exterminated native peoples. Despite disease killing vast numbers of indigenous people in both the North and the South, the Hispanic colonization of America didn't try to eliminate indigenous people as an objective goal, while the English colonization of North America did.
In his New Laws. New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians, 1542, by King Charles I of Spain. The King abolished the enslavement of natives.
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"while the English colonization of North America did. "
There were certainly plenty of attempts to enslave native Americans in British America - it was just that(after the plagues) there weren't enough native Americans in the original 13 to make a good labor force, and in any event they weren't accustomed to work as agricultural stoop labor. If the areas that Britain colonized had had large, dense agricultural populations like Central America or the Andes, the local population almost certainly would have been enslaved rather than exterminated.
That being said, this is almost certainly too optimistic: it's unlikely much in the way of autonomous native states would have survived in central Mexico proper, and probably the main reason more locals survived would be that Englishmen, more commercially apt than Spanish noblemen and would-be noblemen, would have a better appreciation of the loss of valuable property the death of an Indian slave would represent.
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MMm But in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and US whites are majority. Americans who are British sons were too agressive to the Indians, Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish Land to kill Seminoles, Indian subjects of their Catholic Majestry.
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Curse you, Babelfish! You have again humiliated me!
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Well, if it helps, Swedish isn't an easy language.
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Nice, but a nation or territory with a coastline can't be a enclave.
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Ah. Terminology, my old nemesis!
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It's gotten to me too before.
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