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As it say; your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have an ATL where the native Americans discover the Old World before Columbus 'discovers' them. Could this be done? Which native American civilisation would be the likeliest candidate to establish contact? And what would the ramifications be? Personally, I'd go with an ATL where the Taino follow a similar path to the Polynesians, island-hopping across the Atlantic to settle the archipelagos of Bermuda, the Azores and Madeira prior to the Europeans, with the man who would have been Christopher Columbus' father in law IOTL, Bartolomeu Perestrello, making first contact with the Taino civilisation ITTL in 1419. Does this sound like a good start? Or would you suggest a different path of divergence?
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