Delayed discovery a timeline 1492-2010

Here's a preview: 1781 London Britan General Cronwallis pleased to see you I think we met during the last war. Indeed we did General. I'm afraid you are my prisoner General yes indeed I am General Washington........
 
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Be interesting to see how you get Britain to exist as a single nation with butterflies 100 years before the royal union, and 200 before.
 
The POD Columbus dies before he sets sail for america as a result the Europeans never discover America. History stays the same in Europe until a century after the POD with the Spanish empire getting weaker due to there not being any potato. By the time of the Thirty years war the Haspurgs are so weak that they break up following their defeat. In 1664 the British force the Dutch to allow to establish a fort in Amsterdam called York. In 1754 George Washington attacks the French starting the Seven years war. The British are overrun and by 1763 Prussia has also been overrun. In 1775 the British civil war starts leading to the replacement of the monarchy with a Presidency with George Washington as President. In 1789 the French revolution starts leading to the overthrow of the Monarchy. By 1914 the world is a different place. Prussia is divided between France Russia and Austria. In the Americas Europeans have began to make contact with the natives who are still primitive though having discovered gunpowder and the wheel by now. It is now 1939 in North America it is divided between the Aztecs and Incas who began to suffer from Smallpox. By the present day while many have died the vaccination campaign has been successful. So what do you think?
 
It is now 1939 in North America it is divided between the Aztecs and Incas who began to suffer from Smallpox. By the present day while many have died the vaccination campaign has been successful. So what do you think?
...Why? It's not like the Incas and the Aztecs were the only people in the entire bloody supercontinent who had cities. Whenever someone starts a pre-Columbian PoD, the Aztecs and Incas (and on rare occasions, the Iroquois) are the only people who matter. Again, why?
 
In 1664 the British force the Dutch to allow to establish a fort in Amsterdam called York

No British in 1664 in our timeline.

Also, I find it unlikely that no one else would have bothered going over 'til the 1900s, I also find it unlikely Incas or the Aztec's would still be around after 500 years.
 
I understand the thing about there being no British but Scotland and England were ruled under one throne at the time by the way I never said that the discovered it in 1914 it happened in 1848. Contact was just low.
 
Columbus wasn't the only one eying a route across the Atlantic. Bristol and Basque fishermen were already active on the Grand Banks. John Cabot and others were coming along within a few years. Why would discovery hold off for even 50 years, much less hundreds?
 
Listen sorry if this looks bad but im new here thanks for the criticisim guys it should help me later.

Don't be discouraged. It's not a bad idea, it's just that it needs more support. Just killing off Columbus isn't enough to shift the historical momentum that made the rediscovery of the New World inevitable. You need a POD that makes Europe not even think about looking outwards -- perhaps another Black Death-scale plague, or a new Mongol-style invasion that turns their attention to the east, or a more powerful religion, Catholic or otherwise, that discourages or bans outside exploration.
 
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