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Castille and Portugal got there first so I had to take it all to kill them. And I had to kill Portugal and Castille because Sevilla is a very good trade node and I wanted it all for myself. They would have colonized in trade company regions and would have become harder and harder to fully annex otherwise. But it's a good thing that I have it right now in general because once I conquer all of Ivory Coast trade node (which I should do pretty soon), I'll be able to sent trade from Malacca and Southern India through Cape and Ivory Coast towards Sevilla.

Taking all of those provinces from Castille made a coalition start to form in Europe. I attacked two one-province minors released in the league war before they could join the coalition. Oh yeah there was a league war and I helped the prots for the army tradition modifier and to fulfill the Age of Absolutism objective ahead of time. The war leader gave me some Aragonese land. Later on I attempted to take Vienna through an amphibious invasion in Istria and got around 30% of my army stackwiped that way despite taking some forts initially.

Right now I'm also murdering some Mesoamerican natives. I took a lot of provinces from Aztecs before and they would have joined the coalition, stalling my expansion there. I'm hoping to fully clean up Mexico and get rid of this problem. I'm very near my gov cap limit and Europe hates me so I'll expand in colonial and trade company regions for some time.

Also I'm Sunni and and allied to the Ottomans (they became friendly after they declared war and took Athens from me sometime in the 1500s). I'm allied to Najd too because Hanbali is the best school of Islam, -10% aggressive expansion. I'm Maliki myself because -10% dev cost reduction is better in the early game. Any other questions?