What if Columbus had not come to America?

Christopher Columbus, part of Puerto de Palos, heading to India on an expedition funded by the Catholic Kings of Spain. Aboard two ships (the Pinta and Nina) and a ship (the Santa Maria). On August 3, 1492, left for the West.

After 70 days, 12 ocubre, saw land, and found the coast of Guanahani, now Watling in the Bahamas, which he called San Salvador. Spain won the extensions discovered. Several more trips, conquistadors brought to the new world and took control of the mainland, claiming it on behalf of its King. The European domination (mainly Spanish) in what is now America, lasted more than three centuries.

Alternative  
 
Stephen Abbott, author of “alternative history”, notes the possibility of an indigenous continent even today: “We might think that if the European conquerors had not come to America, the mighty Aztec empire without a rival, would dominate the continent from the top of California to the Brazilian jungle. ”


Gloria Ortega Zuinaga historian states: “We can no doubt point out that if Columbus had not come to America or the Spanish would have remained there for three centuries, this glory would have been for the Portuguese.

The American continent had been visited in the past by sailors as Eric the Red, in the year 982, discovered a large tract of land, which he called Gruundand (green earth), what is now known as Greenland. 

The Portuguese already had a method of systematic exploration since 1420. One can suppose that the Spaniards, they would undertake expeditions to learn of the discovery of Brazil, but probably, the Portuguese had already reached the entire continent. Perhaps now would be speaking Portuguese. ”


Guillermo Zermeño, research professor at El Colegio de Mexico, “the exercise of imagination, help us to understand the same facts and rethink its density and importance.”

“The school of” what would have been “, had the initial master the Roman Tacitus, who was the first historian to tell what would have happened if this or that fact would have been different.

In his case, told the greatness that had reached Germanicus, stepson of Augustus, had he lived to be Roman Emperor. “