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WI Columbus never returned to Spain?
How loud was that cry of “Done to Death!”?
Ok, here are the details of my question.
· Columbus first voyage never returns to Europe. What happens in Europe next?
· Spain had financed part of Chris’ voyage, but that seems now to have been a waste of money.
· Cabral still bumps into Brazil, so I expect that the Portuguese explorations would continue to a great extent s in OTL.
· The merchants of Bristol England had sent several expeditions out searching for Hy-Brazil beginning around 1480. It was an Island somewhere off the coast of Ireland and had been shown on maps in the early 1400s. Would John Cabot still have been sent on his voyages by those merchants?
· [FONT="]João Vaz Corte-Real supposedly discovered [/FONT]Terra Nova do Bacalhau in 1470, possibly Newfoundland, although this claim does not appear in writing until the 1570s. Might Cabot and others have heard of this “discovery”?
· Jean Cousin supposedly discovered Brazil in 1488, sailing for France from Dieppe. One of his captains was Alonzo Pinzón, who was captain of the Pinta on Chris’ first voyage (Rumor has it that he knew the way). (Binot Paulmier, sieur de Gonneville sailed to Brazil in 1504 as a follow up to Cousin and claimed that French traders from Saint-Malo and Dieppe had been trading there for years.)
Any voyages that were resultant from Columbus discoveries would be butterflied…but how would Europe have been affected in the next several years? Looking for ideas that extend no later than say 1510.