WI/AHC: Reverse Vasco Da Gama

With a POD after Islam, make an expedition from a nation located on the other end of the Cape of Good Hope (so bordering the Indian or Pacific oceans) border Africa and reach Europe and dominate trade and the oceanic lanes there much like Portugal dominated the Indian Ocean during the early Age of Discovery. Bonus points if they *discover* Brazil. Extra bonus points for circumnavigating the globe.
 
With a POD after Islam, make an expedition from a nation located on the other end of the Cape of Good Hope (so bordering the Indian or Pacific oceans) border Africa and reach Europe and dominate trade and the oceanic lanes there much like Portugal dominated the Indian Ocean during the early Age of Discovery. Bonus points if they *discover* Brazil. Extra bonus points for circumnavigating the globe.
So an Indian or Arab reaches Europe and starts a Portuguese empire equivalent?

The former is possible the latter I'm not so sure over.
 
With a POD after Islam, make an expedition from a nation located on the other end of the Cape of Good Hope (so bordering the Indian or Pacific oceans) border Africa and reach Europe and dominate trade and the oceanic lanes there much like Portugal dominated the Indian Ocean during the early Age of Discovery. Bonus points if they *discover* Brazil. Extra bonus points for circumnavigating the globe.

Why would an indian/arab nation attempt to venture accross thousands of miles in the ocean beyond anything that had been documented to reach europe? If the pod is after islam, europe has already suffered from the collapse of the classical era and is not the major economic center of the world.

You could somehow try to make western europe incredibly rich, but I can't figure out a reason why a nation from a region that already has easy access to high valued trade goods such as spice and silk would want to sail all around the cape to reach europe, which had no such goods and wealths that can be easily turned into profit.

Sure, you could always go for a religious motivation, as a zealot muslim nation in the area could feel compelled to bring the jihad to europe. Even then, it could be only a bonus, as it was to the portuguese.

You would also need to make the naval technological advancements required for such a journey to be developed in the region you specified. Again, that would be hard to do, as no nation felt the need to explore the seas as the portuguese did.
 

Lusitania

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The motivation for the Portuguese and those that followed was to circumvent the Ottoman/Arab/Venetian control of trade with India and China. The opposite did not exist, for your scenario to come to fruition we would need the Byzantine Empire to exist and control both middle east and Egypt relegating Islam to either India or outskirts of Middle East. They then might seek an alternative route to reach Byzantine Empire enemies in the west.
 
The motivation for the Portuguese and those that followed was to circumvent the Ottoman/Arab/Venetian control of trade with India and China. The opposite did not exist, for your scenario to come to fruition we would need the Byzantine Empire to exist and control both middle east and Egypt relegating Islam to either India or outskirts of Middle East. They then might seek an alternative route to reach Byzantine Empire enemies in the west.
Do they intend to take on the most powerful land and sea(given the byzantine tradition), empire of this ATL in a front separated from their homeland by thousands of miles accross the sea? Sure, the portuguese managed to beat the ottomans in the early 16th century, but this is different.
 

Lusitania

Donor
Do they intend to take on the most powerful land and sea(given the byzantine tradition), empire of this ATL in a front separated from their homeland by thousands of miles accross the sea? Sure, the portuguese managed to beat the ottomans in the early 16th century, but this is different.

The best they could do at time was to establish contact and trade with the Europeans, circumventing the Empire and trading directly with Europe would weaken the Empire all by itself. As for how and whom I will leave for those more familiar with the Empire to generate a TL.
 
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