I love how Anatolia looks so much like Michigan and its surrounding Great Lakes in this picture.
Kalle_79 on
Sounds kinda like a very far-fetched “plan”, using said word very loosely as well.
NTM their maps were probably rather crude and inaccurate, making anything past Phase 1 wishful thinking or a pipedream.
Busy_Magician_8888 on
Honestly may have been possible to take out the ming dynasty and have a puppet ruler. Way too many people without local support
Falitoty on
How many times have this been already reposted?
RetiredApostle on
The plan was to use 10k troops to defeat an army of 1m Chinese (a gunpowder empire), because this math worked in the Andes.
dickallcocksofandros on
you can already experience this alternate reality by visiting the philippines
Someonedit on
With what manpower could they rule all that?
GustavoistSoldier on
It wasn’t to conquer the world.
wjkwos on
Nobody would expect that..
grumelude on
Now Spain is struggling to make the trains work
DueAd9005 on
Beating China at sea is one thing (their navy was already lacking the major European powers by then), but Spanish armies would have gotten crushed in the land battles (and you need boots on the ground to conquer that much territory). Just a completely different league.
QuietNene on
It’s called a pincer movement!
MD_Yoro on
This was Spain’s [Empresa de China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empresa_de_China) plan, which included culturally colonize China like they did with Latin America and the Philippines by having Spanish man marrying Chinese woman to have next generation slowly turn Spanish.
They even wanted to bring the Japanese in as part of the invading forces.
> The enterprise was formulated by several figures of the Hispanic Monarchy, but its main driving force would be a sector of the Society of Jesus led by Alonzo Sánchez
Aka the Jesuits
Didn’t know Jesus wanted Spain to conquer and colonize the Chinese. Makes sense the Chinese government are somewhat anti-Christian.
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If I recall correctly,this was just first step in order to attack The Otoman Empire from the east
Logistical nightmare
Bold move assuming there was gonna be a second phase…
Least ambitious European country during the colonial era
It wasn’t a plan.
Somebody said “hey imagine if” and then everyone went “yeah no”
Source?? Nice graphics but we need the source.
Why doesn’t China simply copy this plan to conquer the Ottoman empire and then Europe???? They already have a head start.
/s in case people need it
Via Guangdong, you mean
Did it work
Here it is in vector form so you can read the text : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Empresa_de_China.svg and here’s the associated Wikipedia article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empresa_de_China
I love how Anatolia looks so much like Michigan and its surrounding Great Lakes in this picture.
Sounds kinda like a very far-fetched “plan”, using said word very loosely as well.
NTM their maps were probably rather crude and inaccurate, making anything past Phase 1 wishful thinking or a pipedream.
Honestly may have been possible to take out the ming dynasty and have a puppet ruler. Way too many people without local support
How many times have this been already reposted?
The plan was to use 10k troops to defeat an army of 1m Chinese (a gunpowder empire), because this math worked in the Andes.
you can already experience this alternate reality by visiting the philippines
With what manpower could they rule all that?
It wasn’t to conquer the world.
Nobody would expect that..
Now Spain is struggling to make the trains work
Beating China at sea is one thing (their navy was already lacking the major European powers by then), but Spanish armies would have gotten crushed in the land battles (and you need boots on the ground to conquer that much territory). Just a completely different league.
It’s called a pincer movement!
This was Spain’s [Empresa de China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empresa_de_China) plan, which included culturally colonize China like they did with Latin America and the Philippines by having Spanish man marrying Chinese woman to have next generation slowly turn Spanish.
They even wanted to bring the Japanese in as part of the invading forces.
> The enterprise was formulated by several figures of the Hispanic Monarchy, but its main driving force would be a sector of the Society of Jesus led by Alonzo Sánchez
Aka the Jesuits
Didn’t know Jesus wanted Spain to conquer and colonize the Chinese. Makes sense the Chinese government are somewhat anti-Christian.