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What if instead of sending the exploraton fleet that evidence suggests reached the west coast of the new world, the Chinese instead sent out a fleet of colonization. What would the impact of horses, better crops, etc. have on the native americans? How would horse-mounted soldiers fare against the invading spanish 70 years later? Any at all? Or would a smallpox and plague infected native population let Columbus to discover a continent filled with a few natives and Chinese colonies. Would this have led to a war between Europe and China over the new world?