And note that this was a fairly recent event, as in within the conquistadors lifetimes. So it's very sensitive. The two countries had been ruled by the same crown for decades longer, but the union into one country was fresh. And not everyone was a fan.
That honestly sounds like an entirely plausible thing that real people would do under the circumstances.I'll drop one bone on religion, I suppose. Two of the major Christian sects (which aren't the sum total of major Christian denominations by the modern day, though I'm obviously not saying how many there are or what the others are) will end up creating an academic in-joke. One along the same vein as the Not-Holy, Not-Roman, Non-Empire jokes of our timeline.
The Roman Catholic Church* that is centered in Rome, but is not part of the Roman Empire nor related to it at all.
and
The Roman Orthodox Church** that is centered in the Roman Empire that does not (and has not for centuries) controlled Rome, and is on an entirely different continent.
This is not confusing to people who are either not-Christian or not from Arcadia or Europe. Not at all
Depends on how much trouble the New World is really; if it proves to be sufficiently difficult, the Spanish may well decide that telling the Portuguese Empire to get fucked is the better option.
For quite some time, yeah. The current (in story) ruler of spain is the one that gets the historical title of first ruler of spain. Hence why it's a thing.
The real fun butterfly is how this news effects the entire Protestant movements, the English/Anglican church, and what happens to the Thirty Years War now?
Why? Because God moving Constantinople to protect it from the Ottomans was a sign to attack Islam?
That "Roman Naval Dominance" isn't going to manifest for a couple ceturies. The Romans just don't have a tradition of open ocean ship building or sailing as they spent their entire exsistence locked to the Medeterainian. That problem hasn't been resolved in the time since the transition as they have suck almost solely to the coasts. The Portuguese and by extention the Spanish have a long history of open ocean sailing and ship building and pionered most of the important inventions for oceanic sailing during this time. That's not even mentioning the fact that the Strait of Magellen 6,000 miles away from Constantinople.Here are the locations of the Spanish silver mines in the new world.
There won't be a Paname Canal for centuries, and navigating the Pacific from Asia is just a big nono for now. Finally, what few ships that attempt to circumvent American via the strait of Magellan or by going around will be met with Roman naval dominance.Strait of Magellan - Wikipedia
Yeah the Romans will have to invite some European Shipbuilders, though that won't be impossible I suspect.
And that's the thing right there. The lack of silver and other mineral discoveries along with the natives being much more harder to remove when compared to OTL means that there won't be too much of an incentive to explore/settle the Western Coast.
Ahhhhhh.
And Cortés reaps the shitstorm he deserved to suffer in reality, god I hate reading about Cortés; the man should have gotten his shit wrecked many times, but through a combination of blatant lies and sheer blind luck he managed to wave enough gold around to convince Charles V to not chop his head off.
That's not going to work this time around. Too bad, so sad.
Europe is basically going to explode. It will take awhile because nobody is going to believe that Constantinople fucking teleported across the planet when everyone knows that Mehmed II burned the city to the ground, but eventually enough evidence will make its way back to Europe that the Catholic Church is going to be forced to confront the apparent reality that Constantinople is God's Chosen City and its people His Chosen People, because why else would God intervene so blatantly to rescue the city and its people if they weren't important?
This is going to cause Problems.
Less a possibility and more a guarantee; God never picked Jerusalem up and moved it to a paradise on earth on the other side of the planet when it was threatened by muslim conquerors, but He did save Constantinople. Logically speaking, Constantinople must be more important, otherwise He would have saved Jerusalem instead.
People will try to argue this of course, but arguing a blatant and obvious miracle like the teleportation of an entire city and all its people is rather tricky, to say the least.
Teleporting cities rank slightly higher on the 'how the fuck did that happen' graph of Miracles than the Holy Fire, of which literally the only thing that people actually see is the Patriarch leaving a sealed room with a pair of candles.
