FAQ (Pax Columbia)

I was recently posed several questions so I decided to make a FAQ for Pax Columbia. If you have a question which is pertinent and not yet answered, feel free to ask it here or on the authors talk page: User:CassAnaya. If you are familiar enough with Pax Columbia and feel you can answer the question feel free to do so.

Pax Columbia seeks to be creatively collaborative, but professional. Try to make the articles and any contribution fit all the criteria for featured articles.

Please keep in mind, the author seeks to create a balanced but very alternative world outcome. Nothing is taken for granted nor chosen subjectively, so please have respect for the history before you attack it.
 * 1) How did the coutnry acquire Brazil? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 2) Is it descended from Spain? If so, why doesn't it have the rest of Spain's colonial empire (OTL territories in Argentina, Chile, Texas, California, New Mexico) (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 3) What territories in Africa each nation control? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 4) Who controls India before it gained independence? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 5) How do England, Russia, and France declined? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 6) Due to greater Spanish successes, does this mean Protestanitsm has a much smaller influence than OTL? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 7) Why is OTL Israel named Crimea? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 8) How does the fall of Rome to the Ottomans affect Catholicism? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 9) How did Britain own Kurdistan and Timurid? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 10) Why does Wales gain independece? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 11) Is Japan a westernized nation like OTL? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 12) What about the OTL American Founding Fathers in this TL? What happened to them? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 13) Is Switzerland still consdiered a neutral nation? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 14) Is Africa better off than OTL? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 15) Do some Communist countries embrace limited capitalism? (like China in OTL) (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 16) Does Yugoslavai exis? And if so, when did it break-up? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 17) Is Islam smaller than OTL? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 18) Was Flordia Spanish the whole time before it gained independece? And if so, why didn;t it joined the FSC? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 19) Bogota being detonated by a nuclear bomb is ASB as the capital is completly destroyed as well as the government. Are there better options for a alternate 9/11? (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 20) Why is Zaire invaded? It's not even Muslim! (asked by RandomWriterGuy)
 * 1) Why is Zaire invaded? It's not even Muslim! (asked by RandomWriterGuy)