Spanish Voyages

[General Fabian]

How would the colonization of the Americas have been different if during the early encounters of explorers such as Christopher Columbus were unsuccessful.


Alternatively, if early explorers were attacked by the natives, would Europe keep sending ships to the New World?

 

[Rakhasa]

Explorers were attacked by the natives, quite often, from the very first voyage -the fisrt "settlement", made of the Columbus men than did not fit on the survivng ships, was massacred.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Navidad


And Columbus' voyage was unusccesful in all important points -the Caribean was a primitive wilderness full of savages, not to put too fine a point about it. They only reason they kept exploring west was than those natives kept telling the legends of the Land of Gold on the other side of the ocean (the Aztecs)

So for a truly unsuccesful string of encountes, you'd need to kill the entire mesoamerican civilizations from the start (for even now fallem empires would have left legends), wich in itself would make colonization completely different.