if another country comes in and claims the throne of your target, there will be a succession war if the target king dies without an heir
3014 is the easiest one.
Not really. Tax-wise they're ok, but they will usually spawn wool or fish as trade goods. Gold can be found too, but it is really rare (like a 10% chance).
. In addition your army will have taken attrition on the seas and galoihs are not that much better then indian troops yet. Terrain and militairy drill can make all the difference.
More to the point: The AI isn't allowed to enact the "Accept Culture Shift" decision in the first place. (Probably because any reasonable set of parameters for it doing so would see the Western-ruled Greek-culture states end up with Greek primary culture before 1410.)
Go with the areas that will likely spawn valuable trade goods (you can find this on the wiki). The Carribean is excellent, it will mostly give you sugar, coffee, tobacco and cotton (plus they're easy to defend islands). South America spawns the same goods and gold, though you can also get fish, naval goods or wool (doesn't seem that common though). Indonesia is nice too, it tends to give you spices or other slave-goods (sugar, coffee, etc.) - note that the region is mostly tropical (gives penalties). North America, from Texas to New York is next up, and it is vastly inferior. Just hope you get cotton. Africa generally sucks to colonise (tropical, natives, high chance to get grain) but south Afrika is ok - non-tropical and 'high' tax. The rest of the world - Siberia, Canada and Australia isn't worth it.
