What if Columbus had turned back before discovering the "New World" ?
Would the Spanish have followed the Portuguese down the West Coast of Africa into the indain Ocean and beyond or would they have concentrated more on the Mediterranean?
I'm assuming the absence of all the Aztec and Inca gold would have resulted in a poorer, less powerful Spain which might have had implications in Northern Europe - a pope less under the Hapsburg thumb may have granted Henry VIII his divorce perhaps.
How would settlement of N America had gone if the first landfalls were in Labrador / Newfoundland ?
How long after would the Caribbean and Central America have been discovered by Europeans?
Would the Spanish have followed the Portuguese down the West Coast of Africa into the indain Ocean and beyond or would they have concentrated more on the Mediterranean?
I'm assuming the absence of all the Aztec and Inca gold would have resulted in a poorer, less powerful Spain which might have had implications in Northern Europe - a pope less under the Hapsburg thumb may have granted Henry VIII his divorce perhaps.
How would settlement of N America had gone if the first landfalls were in Labrador / Newfoundland ?
How long after would the Caribbean and Central America have been discovered by Europeans?