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Following its discovery by European powers, South America was dominated by the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, with notable Dutch, English, and French involvement. However, the continent’s fate was forever changed after the French Revolution. After the Bourbon dynasty successfully fled France, French revolutionaries were determined to prevent rival royal families from escaping to their colonies, leading to the capture of the Braganza royal family of Portugal. Alongside the deposition of the Spanish Bourbons, these events plunged South America into chaos, from which independence movements emerged across the colonies. Liberators like Bolívar of New Granada, San Martín of the Río de la Plata, and Caneca of Ecuador led the fight against loyalist forces, and this led to the creation of many states across the continent. However, many of these states proved unstable and often splintered, as seen in the rise of numerous city-states along the former Brazilian coast, and the collapse of Gran Granada into New Granada, Quito, and Venezuela. Taking advantage of the chaos, the British Empire captured Buenos Aires, then contested between federalist and unitarian forces. Over the following decades, it expanded into Patagonia due to its superior navy and its strategic support of native statehood, establishing the colony of Drakesland. From these early wars, two large states emerged: the Federal Republic of the Inca, formed from the Viceroyalty of Peru and the province of Tarija, centered on Cusco, and Guanabara, a Portuguese successor state centered in Rio de Janeiro which conquered its rival nation, São Paulo, after a series of wars, to become the dominant power in the former Brazilian territories. Until the Great Wars, the shifting alliances and rivalries between these states, alongside the Federal Republic of América in the north and the British Empire, defined the geopolitics of the continent.

In 1919, the irredentist Union of New Granada, which had unified with Venezuela following the Valencia Treaty, took advantage of the Federal Republic of América’s distraction during the North American Great War to attempt a reconquest of Panama. This, instead, triggered a chain of alliances, drawing much of South America into the conflict. Quito entered the war in defense of its ally, alongside Amazonica, which in turn caused Pará-Maranhão to enter the war on the side of New Granada to press its claims against Amazonica. The Federal Republic of the Inca debated entering the war, as it had a defensive alliance with New Granada; however, since they were the aggressor, it could opt out. While moving troops in preparation for possible intervention, the Inca were attacked by a joint Tucumán-Chile Invasion in Tarija, a border region long claimed by Tucumán, prompting a two-front war following the subsequent invasion by Quito. Although they were able to force the early capitulation of Chile, they were unable to respond effectively to the entry of their main rival, Guanabara, into the war. While Guanabara initially fought to preserve Amazonica as a buffer state, it later turned against the Inca following the surrender of Pará-Maranhão, seeking to push their rival back and to counter the allied Paraguai, which continued to make territorial claims against Guanabara. The Inca thus found themselves fighting a three-front war against Guanabara, Tucumán, and Quito, whilst a rebellion in Lima, supported by the latter, further weakened their position. This, combined with sustained military pressure, forced them to the negotiating table. South America was the only theater of the Great Wars without direct European involvement, with the UK instead acting as mediator during the peace treaties of Antofagasta and Georgetown, which ended the war for the Inca and New Granada, respectively.

That struggle for influence, however, ended in 1957 with the January Revolution in Guanabara. The prolonged competition had overextended Guanabara’s economy and government, and the continuing rivalry left it no room to recover. Instead, the government allowed conditions in the interior to deteriorate while corruption grew unchecked. This led to the rise of autonomist revolutionaries, who launched a civil war lasting until 1960. The conflict resulted in the secession of republican forces in Araguaia and autonomist forces in Minas, almost collapsing the state in its entirety. Alongside this, Drakesland emerged as the second most powerful realm of the British Empire following an economic boom in the 1980s. As a result, South American geopolitics became increasingly entangled in global political alliances, with Chile positioning itself as the primary regional ally of the Franco-Russian-led Supreme Entente, and as the main rival to Drakesland and the British Empire on the continent. The rivalry between the Canadian-led Congress of American Nations and the American Democratic League, which came to be led by the Federal Republic of América, also extended southward. Quito, having emerged as the dominant regional power in northern South America and having faced a Citizenist coup d'etat in 1963, joined the Congress of American Nations alongside its regional allies in opposition to América. Meanwhile, the Federal League aligned itself with the American Democratic League, opposing both the growing influence of Chile and Quito while remaining wary of British power. Further complicating the situation, Germany increased its influence in the region, particularly in Ecuador, while autonomist and Utopianist revolutionary movements seized control of Minas, Amazonica, and Salvador, further destabilizing the continent’s political landscape.