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The Byzantine Dromon had lateen sails which could sail against the wind. What if sometime from 900-1100, the dromon made it to Iberia and France, where it could be refined to work on the Atlantic coast, creating an earlier 'caravel'? Remove the oars, add another mast of sails (which could easily by done by adding aspects of knarrs or barques), and you have an oceangoing ship.

What if feudal lords colonized the New World during the High Middle Ages?

What kind of colonial structures would arise?
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