WI: Christopher Columbus never went to the "East Indies"

So everyone knows he was heading for the East Indies and eventually found the Bahamas but what if he actually never got the money/Spanish monarch to support him on his journey, It would mean a whole difference for the Spanish and probably the whole colonization of S.America and N.America, I guess Columbus if he never got the support he wanted and the money he'd probably still have a rubbish life like he did when he died.

(First actual post so, Correct me if I'm wrong as this is something which I've wanted to know as this could be a massive difference to what we know today.)

EDIT: I posted wrong section.
 
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So everyone knows he was heading for the East Indies and eventually found the Bahamas but what if he actually never got the money/Spanish monarch to support him on his journey, It would mean a whole difference for the Spanish and probably the whole colonization of S.America and N.America, I guess Columbus if he never got the support he wanted and the money he'd probably still have a rubbish life like he did when he died.

(First actual post so, Correct me if I'm wrong as this is something which I've wanted to know as this could be a massive difference to what we know today.)

EDIT: I posted wrong section.

If Columbus don't sail West, someone else would. Maybe some portuguese. Anyway, you would delay the colonization of some years, with interesting butterflies: the Inca civil war wouldn't be exploited, so they would linger around some more, or even become a south american China.
 
If Columbus don't sail West, someone else would. Maybe some portuguese. Anyway, you would delay the colonization of some years, with interesting butterflies: the Inca civil war wouldn't be exploited, so they would linger around some more, or even become a south american China.

While the discovery of the New World is pretty much inevitable, would Portugal ever bother sending someone west, especially after rounding the cape of Africa?
 
So everyone knows he was heading for the East Indies and eventually found the Bahamas but what if he actually never got the money/Spanish monarch to support him on his journey, It would mean a whole difference for the Spanish and probably the whole colonization of S.America and N.America, I guess Columbus if he never got the support he wanted and the money he'd probably still have a rubbish life like he did when he died.

(First actual post so, Correct me if I'm wrong as this is something which I've wanted to know as this could be a massive difference to what we know today.)

EDIT: I posted wrong section.
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If Columbus didn't travel to the New World, he would have stayed as a merchant trader or maybe turned to the church as Columbus had shown a keen interest in the Bible and in Biblical prophecies, and would often quote biblical texts in his letters and logs, would an Italian Pope interested in the New World, change anything? Banning England from colonising the Americas without changing back to Catholicism

As for the New World, some one would have invested in it, the trade to china was a big deal not to try it out.
 
Hey
Welcome to AH.

If Columbus didn't travel to the New World, he would have stayed as a merchant trader or maybe turned to the church as Columbus had shown a keen interest in the Bible and in Biblical prophecies, and would often quote biblical texts in his letters and logs, would an Italian Pope interested in the New World, change anything? Banning England from colonising the Americas without changing back to Catholicism

As for the New World, some one would have invested in it, the trade to china was a big deal not to try it out.

I'm guessing that China would have had interest as they were the first to have a world map and they could have conquered the east coast.
 
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