• @[email protected]
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    78 hours ago

    I get the humor in what you say, but it’s worth noting that the Native American civilizations were collapsing due to disease brought by earlier European visitors by the time Columbus set sail.

    Granted, history probably would’ve been largely the same if Columbus’ expeditions were unsuccessful, given the English, French, Dutch and Spanish appetites for empire building

    • bufalo1973
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      37 hours ago

      There’s a saga that is about “what if Columbus arrived to America but never got back to Europe?”. It’s “the tale of the feathered serpent”.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 hours ago

        That sounds super neat. When I google it I find these books amongst other more confused seeming results. Is that the right ones or is it something else?