[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

And if Columbus had never “sailed the Ocean Blue,” the New World would have still been found by Pedro Cabral of Portugal.

Perhaps the American Indians wish the New World had first been colonized by the Chinese as they may have mapped part of it in the ancient past.

[hanamizu]

And if Columbus had never “sailed the Ocean Blue,” the New World would have still been found by Pedro Cabral of Portugal.

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And only eight years later. It’s ironic, that Columbus a man who changed the histories of at least four continents could have never lived and history would have turned out pretty much the same.

Portugal was concentrating on the prize at the time, a sea route to Indies/China. The Spanish would have gotten here pretty quickly and after 700 years of the Reconquista were uniquely prepared to take on conquering a continent or two in the name of God. Glory and Gold were good too.