AHC:Delay the Age of Exploration for 200 years

Is there a way for the European Age of Exploration to be at least delayed for 200 years would a No Black Plague and No Mongols scenario help?
 
Except that the religion had less to do with it than "Egypt's rulers (ab)using the ability to have a monopoly."

Egypt had been Muslim for centuries without the conditions to bring people sailing west or around Africa falling into place. It could remain such without influencing that.
 
No Black Plague and No Mongols scenario help?

I'm not sure if the plague is easily avoidable (Mongols naturally are), but the crisis of the 14th c. (cooling of climate, undernourished and overpopulated Europe plus the plague plus several major wars) led to such population declines that the cost of labour shot up like crazy.

What's the link between high labour cost and colonization?
 
Oh yeah. Well, the main point is there had to be a free passage between Europe and Asia. It can't be stopped altogether though. Soon people will think about more profitable ways for trade.

Could there be a different motivation that would let to the discovery of the Americas?
 
Oh yeah. Well, the main point is there had to be a free passage between Europe and Asia. It can't be stopped altogether though. Soon people will think about more profitable ways for trade.

Could there be a different motivation that would let to the discovery of the Americas?

Agreed that the main factor is the passage between Europe and Asia. Of course it will be the matter of time before they want more profit; they certainly realize that whichever countries lies between the passage make tidy profit acting as middlemen.
 
How about worse Mongols?

Devastate Europe and open a route to China. Note that the Mongols don't actually have to win, just for there to be a bitter and drawn-out war.

Granted, that may very well suddely give Vinland a draw (no Mongols there!) but a number of Norse farmers settling in Vinland isn't the same as an Age of Exploration, and probably won't kick off anything in Europe.
 
would a No Black Plague and No Mongols scenario help?
With a growing European population, Europeans look to the sea for sustenance. As diminishing returns strike one area (sure, with weirs one can trap a lot of fish, but they take a big hit in production with time), there comes a big push to fish in pristine waters. In OTL conditions the New World was very likely to be discovered sometime in the 16th century due to ever more distant fishing trips. Keeping the population high and somewhat constant doesn't strike me as moving further away from that tendency.
 
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