Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'christopher columbus'

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who led four Spanish-sponsored voyages across the Atlantic Ocean from 1492 to 1504, establishing permanent European contact with the Americas. His expeditions initiated European colonization of the New World, profoundly altering global history through the subsequent Columbian Exchange of crops, diseases, and cultures. In alternate history scenarios, Columbus's voyages are frequently reimagined to explore different outcomes of European-Indigenous contact or delayed discovery of the Americas.

What If Columbus Never Sailed to The Americas?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage never occurred, potentially delaying European discovery of the Americas and dramatically altering the course of global history, colonization, and indigenous American civilizations.