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View submission: What if Christopher colombus expedition failed miserably ?
The theory is that Basque fishermen had discovered the Grand Banks and were fishing there before Cabot's voyage. Given the capabilities of Basque fisherman of the time, it would have been within their capabilities to have gone there and done that, and cod was a valuable catch at the time.
Whether or not it had happened before Cabot visited Newfoundland, discovering the Grand Banks and then discovering Newfoundland is something that was likely to have happened anyway based on what people of the time were doing.
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