DBWI: Columbus returns to Spain after reaching Atlantia?

In the late 15th century an Italian explorer known as Chrisopher Columbus had set sail from Spain, looking for a closer route to India. He was the second European to discover Atlantia after Leif Ericsson. However by archaeological evidence he and his crew apparently had been killed by natives on one of the Carib Islands. He isn't very well known around here, but if he returned to Spain it could've meant a massive change in world history.

What if he did return to Spain to record his findings? Would the people of Atlantia survive?
 

IFwanderer

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He's probably ignored and ends up as a random footnote, Spain still owns most of Northern Africa, France still ends up splitting the continent with native kingdoms, and the Republic of the Scots (still a kingdom then) stays the main player in the Isles after England collapses from the Atlantian plagues. But that wouldn't be interesting, so let's say the Catholic Monarchs pay attention to the discovery, maybe they start putting up colonies in the continent instead of focusing on following up the Reconquista, this could end up with Iberia taking the worst hit from the continent's plagues instead of the Celtic Isles (so Portugal's out too), so maybe France takes a bite out of the Euskadi? And unlike Scotland, the English did have some interest in colonizing the continent, but they probably won't make more than a couple trading outposts over the Atlantic coast while France, Spain, Portugal (if they recover from the plagues) and Morocco (assuming Spain or the Egyptians don't eat them) split of the land that's not under the Toiantinsou or the Mejiques [OOC: attempted Frenchification of Tawantinsuyu and Mexica].
 
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