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 .
Sorry, but what's a Holk?
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 .
He may be referring to a hulk (medieval ship type).Sorry, but what's a Holk?
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 .
Do you have a source for this?
The pope? Or an alternate pope?
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.
makes me wonder what would happen if Abu Bakr II's Atlantic expeditions were successful.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.
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.---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?
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.That Castilians doing it goes against the idea of the OP. Maybe Bretons, English or the Kalmar Union does it.