If not Spain, who funds Columbus's voyage?

A Danish expedition would be interesting. Maybe he is tasked to rediscover Vinland, Greenland and Markland on his way. He sails with a fleet of Holks .

The ruler at this point is John, King of Denmark, who also rules Norway through the Kalmar Union, and, a little later, Sweden. Sounds like he'd have the power, and probably the money. Maybe the ships, too - although it looks like he's really more concerned with the Hanseatic League than trade routes to India or anything else that might get him caught up with Columbus. It would be interesting, although I still think the most likely outcome of CC getting denied funding is that the Portuguese eventually land in Brazil.

Not sure if it would be more plausible after the Portuguese find Brazil and after a few others try their hands. Maybe, though, as Europeans start realizing it's a new continent, and if they start finding things like trade goods (tobacco, etc.) as they did in OTL, the King of Denmark could call on Columbus, or Columbus could perhaps call on him? Just to throw it out there - what about a timeline where after the Portuguese and maybe the Spanish have started exploring, Columbus finally gets a backer for his voyage and ends up charting part of the coast of North America for the Kalmar Union? Maybe the area that was "New Sweden" in OTL? Or maybe he beats the Dutch to Manhattan and establishes "Ny København" on the south end of the island?

EDIT: Although, I'm realizing now - if all of that happens, it would take another 20 or more years. Would Columbus be too old?
 
Between Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and Verrazano, why is it only Italian navigators were capable- or interested- in sailing westwards? And always doing it at the behest of some foreign court? Why didn’t a different city from Genoa or Venice attempt an expedition?

I’m also imagining the Moroccan Sultanate supporting a Jewish exile on such a trip.

No one.
He was trying to go all the way to China, using numbers (size of Eurasia overestimated and size of the Earth underestimated) that were WAY off. Any nation with an interest in the sea would know that. Columbus got lucky twice - getting a land power who didn't know enough about the same to back him, and then finding the Americas, (which he refused to admit weren't Asia).

So. No.
makes me wonder what would happen if Abu Bakr II's Atlantic expeditions were successful.
 

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---let’s shift the focus away from when and how the Americas get discovered, mapped, and exploited, and consider what happens when Portuguese success rounding the Cape becomes apparent to other powers. Will the Spaniards, French or English begin to compete, or try to compete, for the around Africa route, trying to set up stations around Africa and fighting the Portuguese while doing so?
 

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---let’s shift the focus away from when and how the Americas get discovered, mapped, and exploited, and consider what happens when Portuguese success rounding the Cape becomes apparent to other powers. Will the Spaniards, French or English begin to compete, or try to compete, for the around Africa route, trying to set up stations around Africa and fighting the Portuguese while doing so?
They did not do that iotl why would they do that here. We are talking about trying to build an infrastructure that took the Portuguese close to 100 years. The Dutch were able to steal portugueses charts to start their enterprises. Remember the other Europeans just know that the Portuguese are doing it not how.

Would the Castilian Attempt going west? What happens when the news if lands to the west becomes known say 1510-1520?
 

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They did not do that iotl why would they do that here. We are talking about trying to build an infrastructure that took the Portuguese close to 100 years. The Dutch were able to steal portugueses charts to start their enterprises. Remember the other Europeans just know that the Portuguese are doing it not how.

Would the Castilian Attempt going west? What happens when the news if lands to the west becomes known say 1510-1520?

That Castilians doing it goes against the idea of the OP. Maybe Bretons, English or the Kalmar Union does it.
 

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That Castilians doing it goes against the idea of the OP. Maybe Bretons, English or the Kalmar Union does it.
They will go west, thing is the Portuguese were concentrated on Asia and Brazil was afterthought until they started growing sugar cane which was in short supply in Europe with few Christian places able to grow it. The other Europeans will sail west and find very different territory which is not the tropical lands people looking for. It will take several expeditions to find the Caribbean.
 
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