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What if rather than establishing direct colonies, either members of the royal family, or close allies were instead granted the right to take an expedition to the New World and establish vassal realms instead.

There is a precedent in the Viking period, where rulers would gather warriors to invade a realm to build their own realms.

What sort of change might a nobility-driven colonial period have? Even if it was just undertaken by one country?
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