Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7257730-20130401130901/@comment-1789156-20130403170104

I disagree with Lordganon. As long as trouble ensues in Spain, the Castileans won't support a voyage to the west. Some other points to note is that without Portugal there would be no second entity in the Treaty of Tordesillas, unless some other power managed to get to America in time, so that would also differ. If Constantinople doesn't fall that would support this idea, since the main reason the Europeans turned to sea in the first place is that the Silk Road was now in the hands of hostile Muslims. To save the city it would probably take a miracle. Maybe say John Hunyadi led an army to relive the city, but even then it's unlikely. If the city some how managed to stand, and a route was established to India by land (or around Africa) then no one would see the need to go west in the first place. Furthermore, I'd reccomend as a possible POD that the Moors held on to Granada, or continued to be a thorn in Spain's side.