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I read somewhere that before Christopher Columbus approached a couple of other countries before being rejected and finally ended up sailing for Spain and connecting the old world with the new. One of those countries was Britain. What if Britain accepted his offer and Britain discovered the new world instead of Spain? Would the British Empire become super rich earlier than on our timeline. Would the Brits conquer the Aztecs the Incas and the Mayas and set up great Caribbean style plantation societies throughout the jungles of South America? How would the natives fare? In North America they were almost replaced. Would the South American countries be first world countries today like the USA and Canada? Discuss please.