User blog comment:Wijata Mateusz/Imagine a world without the Americas/@comment-1870785-20120724043926

Europe would have likely never become rich, as it was the gold from the Americas that initially financed the building of the European Empires. England would likely be its own country. The influence of Dar-al-Islam would not have declined as drastically as in OTL, if at all. christianity would be a minority religion. The renessiance would ae still occured, owever, as that was partialy the result of Bzantiums collapse.

Africa would certainly be richer as the colonial exploitation would have ot occured. Israel would have never been founded. Meanwhile, China would have likely been the country to start colonizing, although it would have been a much more minor event in global history than in Otl.

China would definitely be the worlds major power, followed by the Arabic countries, Ethiopia, and possibly Italy (as it was the center of the Renessaince). Space travel could have occured around the same time as OTL, but we likely wuld have developed space colonies by mow.