DBWI:Columbus Sails West

So what if Columbus would have been pursuing his idea and accepting the Spanish invitattion to reach India by elling westward back in 1492? Hell,i imagine the Aztecs and Incas wouldn's have a chance,remember when we finally discovered the Galibias? We actually thought the entire Carib territory was the only landmass in the area.I wonder what would have happen if we would have discovered the Galibias 127 years earlier.
 
So what if Columbus would have been pursuing his idea and accepting the Spanish invitattion to reach India by elling westward back in 1492? Hell,i imagine the Aztecs and Incas wouldn's have a chance,remember when we finally discovered the Galibias? We actually thought the entire Carib territory was the only landmass in the area.I wonder what would have happen if we would have discovered the Galibias 127 years earlier.
who the heck is this columbus person? Sailing west to reach india!?!? Oh, come on, the size of the earth was well known then, and ships of that day wouldnt have been able to sail that distance.

He was either a con man trying to scam them, or so crazed that no one would listen.

"Trying to find the Indies by sailing west" is a total nonstarter. I hesitate to say asb, but its darn close. The spanish monarchs at time may have been ignorant, but i cant imagine them being THAT gullible. Sheesh.

Ooc. What WERE ferdinand and isabella smoking?
 
who the heck is this columbus person? Sailing west to reach india!?!? Oh, come on, the size of the earth was well known then, and ships of that day wouldnt have been able to sail that distance.

He was either a con man trying to scam them, or so crazed that no one would listen.

"Trying to find the Indies by sailing west" is a total nonstarter. I hesitate to say asb, but its darn close. The spanish monarchs at time may have been ignorant, but i cant imagine them being THAT gullible. Sheesh.

Ooc. What WERE ferdinand and isabella smoking?
I think so as well,but reaching China overland (by Marco Polo) was as useless.Well,at least he returned with gifts and was probably oneof the first Europeans to arrive in the region after the Arab conquests but the route he took just wasn't commercially viable anymore,i mean,his return route by sea and overland after the Persian gulf made much more sense.It could have been the same with Columbus although i am sure he would have wrecked his shipsin the middle of the Atlantic,you know,the storms of the north Atlantic at all.I seriously doubt 15th century ships could handle those.Apparently Ferdinand and Isabella finally got some sense into them after expulsion of Jews.Columbus had to return to Genoa in september 1492 and as far as i am aware of he ended his days in 1509 from a severe case of influenza in Corsica.`
 
Well, if he sailed west we could probably count on him never being heard from again. If by some miracle he makes it, perhaps by stumbling across some island a good deal west of the mainland, there is still a good chance that he and his men would have wrecked and been stranded for life. On the other hand, perhaps the survivors could find some native women who survive their diseases and create a biracial society on one of the islands with them. Pretty interesting to see what such a society might achieve in the Carribean by island hopping in the 120 or so years (accounting for butterflies) before the Europeans arrive.
 
Well, if he sailed west we could probably count on him never being heard from again. If by some miracle he makes it, perhaps by stumbling across some island a good deal west of the mainland, there is still a good chance that he and his men would have wrecked and been stranded for life. On the other hand, perhaps the survivors could find some native women who survive their diseases and create a biracial society on one of the islands with them. Pretty interesting to see what such a society might achieve in the Carribean by island hopping in the 120 or so years (accounting for butterflies) before the Europeans arrive.
It would be an interesting TL.But that's assuming he doesn't land anywhere near Carib or even Aztec or Mayan territory.Their attitude would offend any good Christian beyond belief.
 
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