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"By sailing directly due west from the Canary Islands during hurricane season, skirting the so-called horse latitudes of the mid-Atlantic, Columbus risked either being becalmed or running into a tropical cyclone, both of which he luckily avoided" -Wikipedia
So what if Chris Columbus got caught in a storm west of the Canaries? How would colonization be affected? How long would it take for colonialism to start up again?
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