Yucatan is the part of Central America closer to Cuba, at least on the map, and the Mayans were living there at least at the XI century AD if I am not mistaken. They had built a temple in Cozumel.
Couldn't they have reached and colonized Cuba, and maybe, from there, the Caribean?
It was apparently possible to cross the strait between Cuban and MEsoamerica with the available . I once read that a Caribbean or taino canoe had reached Yucatan around 1500, warning locals of the arrival of Europeans, and about what they were doing in Cuba and Hispaniola. I don't remeber when I read it, and it may be wrong anyway, but, couldn't it had happened?
How would Colón or his ATL equivalent had reacted had he seen huge cities instead of small villages in Hispaniola or Cuba? Would a population that has better agriculture be almost wiped out as OTL native Caribean population, or would it survived to the present day, even if conquered, as in other areas where advanced precolumbian civilizations existed? With a bigger population, would the Atlantic slave trade develop, or would native Americans be used as labour force as they were OTL in Mexico or the highlands? And if it never develops there, would it develop elsewhere, or not exist at all?
Couldn't they have reached and colonized Cuba, and maybe, from there, the Caribean?
It was apparently possible to cross the strait between Cuban and MEsoamerica with the available . I once read that a Caribbean or taino canoe had reached Yucatan around 1500, warning locals of the arrival of Europeans, and about what they were doing in Cuba and Hispaniola. I don't remeber when I read it, and it may be wrong anyway, but, couldn't it had happened?
How would Colón or his ATL equivalent had reacted had he seen huge cities instead of small villages in Hispaniola or Cuba? Would a population that has better agriculture be almost wiped out as OTL native Caribean population, or would it survived to the present day, even if conquered, as in other areas where advanced precolumbian civilizations existed? With a bigger population, would the Atlantic slave trade develop, or would native Americans be used as labour force as they were OTL in Mexico or the highlands? And if it never develops there, would it develop elsewhere, or not exist at all?