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What if European contact with America came later, or not at all?

What direction would the civilizations in the Americas develop? At this time, the Mississipi culture was growing, and from what I understand, agriculture was increasing in areas such as New England and among the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee. And then of course there's the Aztec and the Inca further down south to wonder about...

And also, what sort of POD would lead to Europe not eventually reaching America in the 15th century, or later? Besides Columbus, there seemed other people, such as the Basque fishermen off the coast of Newfoundland (the Vikings I don't count here because while they did reach the Americas, it didn't seem to have much effect in the large scale of things, so they can come and go), though I don't know if their contact would have much of an effect as Columbus did.
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