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As the thread title says. Staring probably after about 1000 AD, what's a realistically timeframe European discovery can be delayed?

I'm pretty sure that it's a different non-historical 'Edmund' Atkinson plays. Wasn't his father in the series, played by Brian Blessed, one of the Princes in the Tower?

For fun, I'd want to go right back and have Burgundy survive as a political enitity.

The French Revolution doesn't descend into the Terror and remains relatively enlightened. The Cult of Reason becomes a defacto state religion and spreads it's influence across Europe and into the Americas.

I'm thinking a city state founded on an imitation of Plato's Republic could well proceed along these lines, with the aritocratic philosophers required to show mastery in music as well as mathematics. Perhaps have a group of Greek Exiles sail out to the canary islands and attempt to found a...

IIRC there's quite a lot about the Indian Ocean Trade involving the Romans in The Shape of Ancient Thought by Thomas McEvily. He argues for a cross pollination of ideas between Rome and India. He argues I remember that he argues that the Greek Philosopher Plotinus who studied in Alexandria in...

Just having Arthur Phillip die on the initial voyage out might be enough. Add to the already significant problems they faced a vacuum of leadership.