never sailed to the new world, goods such as: Avocados, cacao, potatoes, tobacco, aspirin etc. would have never reached Europe. Thus, Western Europe may never have grown as powerful as it did.
This voyage is what made Spaniard’s so strong. They had spices and goods the rest of the world didn’t. Exchanging goods with the Natives then taking it back to the Old World, Spain’s economy boomed upward. Giving Spain immense power, but without the discovery? Spain’s economy wouldn’t have blown up as much as it did. Perhaps it might have been brought down if Columbus took the voyage and just didn’t make it. Columbus supposedly packed enough goods for a year’s worth of a trip. Which, in fact, he got lucky he did because under his belief of where land
This voyage is what made Spaniard’s so strong. They had spices and goods the rest of the world didn’t. Exchanging goods with the Natives then taking it back to the Old World, Spain’s economy boomed upward. Giving Spain immense power, but without the discovery? Spain’s economy wouldn’t have blown up as much as it did. Perhaps it might have been brought down if Columbus took the voyage and just didn’t make it. Columbus supposedly packed enough goods for a year’s worth of a trip. Which, in fact, he got lucky he did because under his belief of where land