Darkest Europe

Europe suffers very heavy losses from the Black Death in the 1350's, and still has not recovered properly when African explorers start arriving from across the Mediterranean in the early 1400's. At the same time, explorers from the various Central American empires make landfall on the Atlantic coast of Europe. What happens then?
 

Skokie

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The Mediterranean was pretty well explored by the 1450s by people on all sides of it. ;)

And of the Central Americans who make it to Europe, the ones who wouldn't get ill and die from Old World disease would be slaughtered by superior Old World weaponry.
 
I think the North African Muslims had their fair share of suffering from the Black Death, while those south of the Sahara have no great maratime tradition. And almost the same goes for the natives of Central America and the Caribbean, whom don't possess any canoes large or resilient enough to make frequent Atlantic crossings.
 

Anaxagoras

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Europe suffers very heavy losses from the Black Death in the 1350's, and still has not recovered properly when African explorers start arriving from across the Mediterranean in the early 1400's. At the same time, explorers from the various Central American empires make landfall on the Atlantic coast of Europe. What happens then?

North Africa was hit even harder by the Black Death than Europe was, and if it had been worse in Europe I can't see any way in which it wouldn't have been worse in North Africa.

There were no "explorers from the various Central American empires". None of the powerful Mesoamerican states had anything even remotely approaching a seafaring tradition. To bring in the necessary changes for this to happen would create sufficient butterflies to completely warp world history, thus negating your original concept.
 
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson is a well-known AH based on the idea of a more severe Black Death removing Europe from world history.

The problem with it that the more severe black death version in there basically "knows geography", as in, in a realistic scenario (note: I'm not sure how realistic super-fatal pandemics really are) would probably have depopulated North Africa, the Middle East and East Asia in a similar fashion as it would have depopulated Europe.

"The Years of Rice and Salt" can be much better thought of as a thought experiment, rather than a geniune alternate history scenario.
 
Europe suffers very heavy losses from the Black Death in the 1350's, and still has not recovered properly when African explorers start arriving from across the Mediterranean in the early 1400's. At the same time, explorers from the various Central American empires make landfall on the Atlantic coast of Europe. What happens then?

Based on past discussions on the topic, you can't hit Europe with the Black Death any harder than elsewhere in Eurasia and Africa. See here for why. Also, native American civilizations in the early 1400s did not have the necessary nautical technology or initiative to head across the Atlantic.
 
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