It would be great with a "Dr. Livingstone-moment" if Vasco da Gama would stumble over the Incan navy and the "Genoese" and speak to him "Cristóvão Colombo, I presume?"
However, amiral Huallpa isn't likely to get so lost that he end up in India, and da Gama was to leave India in 1502 to return...
What will the corresponding festivity be in the Khanate north-America (instead of thanksgiving)? Perhaps the mongols kept track of the date they landed in Panama and kept on celebrating that? Horse steak with fermented horse milk instead of that 22 lb bird? After that terrible transit they had...
So the English has found mongols and at least one khanate, and while not knowing that the mongols has already lost China, they will in principle believe that they have found the other side of China. In analogy with how part of the continent were labelled as the "West-Indies" because Columbus &...
I thought Henry left the Chatolic church due to his complex love life? If that doesn't change...why should he stay. Maybe the church will forgive his frequent change of wifes if he wow to take the cross and baptise (with force) the American natives?
BTW. I suppose Amerigo won't be the first one...
That depends...even the most extreme christian groups that emmigrated (was expelled) were sacrificing living humans. So while the Khan's worry about the Mayans, what are a few christians? But imagine those strict lutherans that were hunting imagined witches meeting the Maya!?! Possible allied even.
So will the empire (Inca) discover Australia, New Zeeland, Antarctica... before the Europeans?
Will they even begin to establish some Asian trade posts, like OTL UK Hong Kong etc?
Will the norther Khanate discover Greenland and find a northern route to Europe?
Resent research suggest the...
Thanks for an exellent time line...one that have served me very well as a distraction these last days when I've been forced to rest due to a flu turned into a pnuemonia. Never had that before. Not to be recommended. But good reading helps!
Nice start...
Can't help wonder if north-America will end up with a meter system...and Europe will keep a chaotic mix of inches, pounds etc...of different size in different countries even (unlike OTL where at least US and UK has the same inches etc.).
On the other hand, an American Napoleon...