columbus

In 1487, Christopher Columbus presented his proposal of sailing the ocean blue by going west and reaching the Indies that way. IOTL, we know Portugal knew that this proposal was wrong, and promptly rejected it. Some historians believe that the King of Portugal at that time, João II of Portugal...

As well all know Columbus spent years trying to get sponsorship from various European rulers. What if instead of getting said sponsorship from the Catholic Monarchs, he got it from France? Let's say after getting rejected by the Spanish he goes to France who agrees to sponsor him, what happens...

When the Castilians permanently established contact between the old and new worlds, the inhabitants of the americas had several inherent disadvantages, perhaps the most notable being a lack of immunity to old war diseases. But, also of note was their lack of access to horses and livestock...

How would you picture alternate colonial empires in the Americas, from the 16th and 17th centuries onward? Either Italian, German, etc. Cristopher Columbus, for example, asked for financing from Genoa and Venice for his trip before going to Castile. Klein-Venedig (Welserland) was a German...

OTL, the treaty of Tordesillas, and all that was to prevent war between those two kingdoms. But in the event that a Portuguese Castilian union forms while leaving Aragon out via a marriage of Isabella and John II of Portugal (hell maybe Afonso V's first son named john lives) then, well... war is...

On 1492, Columbus would land in an uninhabited land and the crew was unimpressed and mutinied against him and killed him and they were never heard off again and they would go in separate ways, never to return and some of them sailed to unknown lands. At one point in the 1490’s Isabella thought...

I've read online that Cristopher Columbus sought financing for his project of reaching Asia in Genoa and Venice before going to Castille. Do you think the Genoese and the Venetians could have had conquered part of the Americas? Can you picture Italian colonial empires in both continents?

As title says-when Columbus returns from his first voyage he finds that only one of Catholic Monarchs is still alive and Aragon and Castile are not united anymore. What happens? Are next voyages butterflied away or delayed due to troubles in Iberia? Or is Isabella still interested in exploring...

So we all know that Christopher Columbus tried for years to get a European power to sponsor his voyage across the Atlantic. But what if Henry VII Of England sponsored him instead of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand Of Spain?

I will ask a simple question: What if Christopher Columbus landed somewhere else? Maybe he gets blown north and lands near DC, or south to Surinam.

Is this plausible or ASB? When Columbus reaches America in 1492 he comes across a technologically advanced civilization, similar to Captain Cook in the Green Antarctica timeline when he becomes the first non-Tsalal to reach Antarctica. The Natives in this TL aren't industrial and don't know...

OTL, Christopher Columbus was rejected by the Portuguese and Spanish Crowns, who already had established the ability to go around the Cape of Good Hope. He's picked up by France, who didn't have the reach into North Africa spain enjoyed, and discovered Chesapeake, and France established missions...

In this alternate timeline, the Ottomans are far more hostile to Italian traders in the wake of conquering Constantinople. Now being cut off from a large source of their profit, and desperate to make it up, the Doge of Genoa, Paolo Fregoso, accepts Christopher Columbus's plan to attempt finding...

I was reading the replies to this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/italian-colonization-of-the-americas.469036/ And I got to thinking. The Catholic Monarchs really had no reason to fund Columbus, either. It seems plausible that they might have turned him down flat...

Christopher Columbus asked Genoa and Venice for support for his western route to Asia, before going to Castile. What if one of them agreed to finance the project? Can you imagine a Genoese or Venetian colonization of the Americas?

What if Bartholomew Columbus were successful in convincing the king of either England or France to find a western route for Asia?

What if Christopher Columbus had discovered the Americas, but working not for Spain, but for the other countries in which he asked for an audience? As far as I know, the countries are England, Portugal, Venice and Genoa.

For the sake of argument, lets assume that the Romans had vessels that could cross the Atlantic and that the Empire was interested in the Americas for colonization. Say that the Colony is established during the reign of Agustus and by the time of Constantine it has faded to memory, leaving the...

Either all of his ships sunk on the way back or the natives killed all of them. Would the America’s still see the same level of destruction from disease, if so how long would it take for them to recover? How long would it take for Europe to try again?

tl;dr Joanna la Beltraneja remains Henry IV's heir, and her marriage to Alfonso V results in a personal union of Portugal and Castile. What happens to Columbus and the Americas (whatever they end up being named)? The whole story: Let's suppose, however unlikely, that Henry IV of Castile...