^ Actually, the Spanish came as explorers... they will surely seize any land that they consider vacant and interesting enough, but there is no reason why there is no possibility they will generally start with trade first with the people of the region. Maybe there will occur something like what happened IOTL Banten when the Dutch first visiting, but that was only in one single country. The Dutch would eventually fared vary from places to places in East Indies, and just because the Spanish are usually typically known to be less pragmatic, that will be only far from killing any possibility of the Spanish playing nice to several certain parties at least for a while.
I never posited that the Caribbeans will strike a Spanish ship and take it or anything like that, btw. But if Columbus or anyone who'd take his role doesn't return to Spain after the first visit for whatever reason then yeah the homeland will probably just forget about them.
Even if they will eventually captured a Spanish ship, doesn't mean that the all the people in it have to be already all dead, though that's possible too. And even that among of the captured Spanish can teach them how to use it, yeah I don't see a technological transfer in this regard will just happen from this single encounter either... But I fail to see that as a reason to stop exploring and extracting possibilities from this path
I never posited that the Caribbeans will strike a Spanish ship and take it or anything like that, btw. But if Columbus or anyone who'd take his role doesn't return to Spain after the first visit for whatever reason then yeah the homeland will probably just forget about them.
Even if they will eventually captured a Spanish ship, doesn't mean that the all the people in it have to be already all dead, though that's possible too. And even that among of the captured Spanish can teach them how to use it, yeah I don't see a technological transfer in this regard will just happen from this single encounter either... But I fail to see that as a reason to stop exploring and extracting possibilities from this path