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View submission: What if Christopher colombus expedition failed miserably ?
I love Patrick Wyman's thesis that Columbus had the least Wins Above Replacement (WAR). WAR is a sports term representing how good that player is relative to an average player of any historical figure.
He is utterly replaceable and had a negative WAR. As others point out, it was simply a matter of time at this point in history. Remember, the Portuguese were starting to take to the open water off the east coast of Africa into the Indian Ocean around this time as well.
My favorite Columbus fact is that he was considered racist - not by today's standards, but by the standards of his time. That's pretty bad.
There's nothing here!