AHC: Put off the European Discovery of the Americas as Long as Possible

One problem...the Wiki says camelpox is strictly endemic to the Old World. But I see no reason why a similar disease couldn't develop among llamas. All those lesions could lead one wide open to secondary infection...or maybe they just spread so far that the skin effectively sloughs off and they die of exposure and massive dehydration?

...hey, being Kim Stanley Robinson is fun! :D

NASTY way to die. :eek:
 
1 BC might be an even better POD than 1 AD. A Pagan Roman Empire with Armenia has no reason at all to try and find a westward or Africa-circling route.

Have it conquer Germania and Denmark and hold the area for 30 years at least, and you can withhold discovery until 3000.
 
Or better yet, have the Americans discover Europe. :p

Would Inuits colonizing Iceland and Svalbard count?
By the way, there is a more or less crackpot theory that supposes that the Picts originated out of an Algic people from Eastern NA who colonized northern Scotland and mixed with the locals.
 
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