Columbus Never Discovers America

This is an Alternate History where Columbus never "discovers" America, making its existance unknown to the Old World for quite some time.

Europe
You'll be surprised at how late the New World is found. But seriously, why would they go over there? If it's just a blank ocean to them, there's no reason to explore it.

1600s
Without a promise for gold in a New World, explorers turn to Africa for colonization. Imperialism always ends badly...

Columbus's Failure
Columbus's ships get caught in a hurricane and everybody on board dies. Need this section say more?

Colonization of Africa
Africa is devoured much more quickly by European nations, due to the lack of an America. Asia is also directly affected.

This is a map of Africa by 1640. Britian and Spain get caught in a war in the South tip of Africa. They also have wars for 'the Gold Coast'. Spain is the obvious victor, claiming much of Africa in the end. Britian is spared only a few areas between, being British Africa and Thomasland, named after 'Thomas the Conquerer', a great explorer for Britian.