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by creimers on June 21st, 2007

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What Would The World Be Like If Columbus Never Discovered America?

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  • by Pizza Man on June 21st, 2007

    Pizza Man

    At least one town in Ohio would have a different name.

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  • by Trash Street on June 21st, 2007

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    Some say he wasnt the first to do that anyway. It wouldnt have been long before some other European claimed the title after 1492 though.Because the ships of that day were seaworthy enough to make the voyage.

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  • by LindsayJ. on July 4th, 2008

    LindsayJ.

    less obese. but he didnt anyway, the First Nations peoples did.

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  • by Anonymous on January 4th, 2009

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    Very different indeed. One thing most of you are ignoring is what would happen to the Aztecs or the Inca (hate to break it to you, but the Maya collapsed about 100-200 years before Spanish conquest). Most archaeologists agree that neither civilization had reached the height of its power, so by the time Someone did discover the Americas, the two would be far more advanced, and possibly be able to repel colonization attempts. European Powers would probably refrain from sending another voyage, for either Columbus never found anything, therefore disuading Europeans from seeing any proffit in a voyage, or he never came back and they would dub the voyage too dangerous, or at least too costly to waste more ships on. China at this time was in a period of isolationism, and Middle Eastern countries had no reason to expand, as they already controled Asian trade Routes to Europe. Likely, the Americas would not be discovered until the creation of steam powered ships, which may occur later due to the absence of American inventors (of course, blood lines would be confined to Europe). As for history in Europe. Everything would be about the same until the time after the late 18th century. Without an American revolution, there would be no French Revolution; no Napoleon; no Franco-Prussian War, no French vs. German hostilities; no WWI; no WWII. The Spanish, French, British, and Dutch Empires would not have entered such periods of imperialism, and Asia would remain free from European hands, instead left to Muslim expansionism as was seen in India in the 1600s. The highly organized Inca Empire was at the time extending rights and privelages to the common man, showing a path towards a militaristic Democratic Socialism, while the far more loosely bound Aztec Alliance was doing the opposite (though Montezuma, being without a biological heir, may have ended up ceding the throne to a more benevolent and justice minded ruler). Due to the Inca's higher level of organization and integration of its subjects, any war between the Aztec and the Inca would have resulted in favor of the Inca. Free of the confining Andes and with their mastery of ruling various different environments and peoples, there would have been little in the way of obstacles to stop Tahuantinsuyu (the actual name for the Inca Empire) from conquering all of the civilizations of Mesoamerica and colonizing the cityless Eastern South America and North America (Anasazi and their cities are collapsed too). Due to the Inca's cultural tolerance and advanced food and supply distribution system system for its subjects, most conquest would have been peaceful. Because of social integration, a well supplied standign army, and 350 years to advance befor the possibility of discovery by Old World powers, Tahuantinsuyu would require a full scale coalition invasion to overthrow, and likely European colinization would be restricted to unclaimed areas in Northern North America. So the U.S. might still exist, just at a later date, on a smaller scale (unless it aquires land from Tahuantinsuyu as it did from France and Mexico), it might be of a different lineage (from France, Holland, or Spain instead of Britain), and would be the United States of Something else, because Amerigo Vaspucci would never have had a chance to prove lands that were not known were continents. Finally, depending on its advancement in its yeaars of isolation and its modernization once discovered by Europe (once again, the Ottoman have Asia to get rich off of, and Asia is either weak, isolated, or under Muslim control), Tahuantinsuyu might become a world superpower.

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  • by Magenta on June 22nd, 2007

    Magenta

    Someone else would have discovered them sooner or later- they are rather hard to miss. :)

    Imagine if Asian explorers discovered the Americas before Europeans, and they spread out and slaughtered the native Americans.

    The Americas would be Chinese colonies.

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  • by -O-uknow on June 21st, 2007

    -O-uknow

    Somehow Johnsonia or Smithia does'nt quite have a ring to them.

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  • by Druidic on December 30th, 2010

    Druidic

    Probably not much different. Somebody from Europe would have discovered America, and the major powers of England, France, and Spain would have had the same struggles and conflicts, most likely ending with the same results, although many of the names may be different.

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  • by Rollie on January 4th, 2009

    Rollie

    Probably little different. We would have had visitors from one of the Europe nations within a very few years.
    A few place names different.

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  • by Martin on July 4th, 2008

    Martin

    It would have been left to Paris Hilton or Nicole Ritchie to discover it.

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  • by slothmister on June 22nd, 2007

    slothmister

    If no one had discovered The Americas at all then the world would not be much diffrent today.
    The fact is that the vast majority of People in The Americas are immigrants (if you trace their familly history back long enough) and so would probably still exist today, just in one of the 3 countries that colonised that land (UK, France and Spain).
    However, alot of people would not have met and hooked up and had kids ect so it is such a difficult question to accuratly answer that it would probably take a full essay to do so.
    If you ment something along the lines of "What would the world be like if The Americas (mainly the US) would to just suddenly be wiped from history completely?" Then my answer would be A very strange place! We wouldent have The Simpsons, Jerry Springer, Seinfield, Friends and thousands more.
    Go back to WW2 and it would have lasted ALOT longer, it probably would have ended in a similar way (nuke forcing one side to submit) but who knows what side it would have been on? Yes the scientists were european (mainly) but they only got away from the Nazi's cos of the US help. (see, this could go on for days!)

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  • by PunkMaister on November 22nd, 2009

    PunkMaister

    European would have been conquered by muslims and mongols become for the most part extinct and absorbed.
    There would be no democracy but God kings and human sacrifice on a daily basis on the so called new world to the present and forever and ever until a meteorite strikes, the moon is never reached nor any scientific advance other than complex geometric patterns on cloth,so humanity becomes extinct just like all libtards daydream every second of their lives. the end!

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  • by Paul_B2190 on December 30th, 2010

    Paul_B2190

    Europe would be pretty damn crowded.

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  • by bethcarsonwallace on October 19th, 2010

    bethcarsonwallace

    We would not have Chuck-e-cheese, Scarlett O'Hara, Phineas and Ferb, American Idol....

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  • by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on December 30th, 2010

    Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog

    Well, the USA wouldn't have a holiday called 'Columbus Day.'
    Other than that, pretty much the same since Columbus wasn't the only one working on this issue.

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  • by john pennington on January 4th, 2009

    john pennington

    We would be The United States of Mexico.

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  • by Spicy Hot on January 4th, 2009

    Spicy Hot

    The Native Americans discovered America, not Columbus.

    IF you mean, the first Foreigner, he still wasnt the first.

    We would all be Hindu's. LOL.

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  • by wolfwarrior1996 on March 22nd, 2010

    wolfwarrior1996

    well what would it be like if noone discovered america

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