Talk:1495 - 1516 (No America)

I've just come across this Alt Hist and love the idea. I am very interested in expanding it.

I'd also like to query Ireland's importance in the last paragraph. Going through a process of colonisation that would result in full out invasion less than 50 years later, I find it hard to believe it would be the first port of call for Japanese merchants, especially given Bristol's established port credentials at that time. I would posit that England would likely have dominated this trade, with perhaps Japanese interests formenting trouble in Ireland and even opposing the Tudor invasion in the 16th century. I simply felt the last paragraph was unrealistic and rushed