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Given the following premises:

- The post-Charlemagne Frankish Empire does not disintegrate and finds the way to become a relatively united entity, skipping the Frankish laws about partitions among the heirs.

- This entity becomes involved in the Reconquista and the invasions of England, so both Spain (including Portugal) and England become, if not directly integrated, vassal or peripheral entities.

In this scenario, there is not much room for the trigger of the Age of Exploration, as there are no clear motivations for that, and no competition between nations like Portugal, Spain, France and England, as all of them remain under the same sphere.

So question is: could this lead to an alternate scenario where Europeans are not interested in trans-oceanic explorations, thus prioritizing their own domestic affaires in a similar way that China did in Asia? Maybe the alternate Exploration would be mostly carried by 'private' companies of merchants without support of their rulers?
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