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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Ruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: > ** > > > > Adam, why don't you know how the Age of Exploration started? > > Well, the main problem is that I haven't gotten there yet. I'm still stuck at about 1300, as I said. But come time for it to start, well things are a bit messed up. I think Porutgal will be ready to start sailing down the coast of Africa about on schedule. And they would have motivation -- breaking the Carraxan monoply on the overland trade in West African spices, gold and such. But once the Portugues monopolize *those* routes, they will have no more motivation to fund a Colombus analogue *there* than they did *here*. None of the Spains will be in a position to fund foolishness like sailing off the edge of the world to find China when we know perfectly well where it is. I am currently thinking that Aquitania may fund "Colombus" but I'm still not sure. Sooner or later *someone* has to discover the New World, but I'm not exactly sure how to kickstart it. If it is the Aquitanians, the the familiar names of all the foods imported from the New World (tomatoes, potatoes, chilis, bananas, plantains, maize/corn, avacadoes, etc.) will change to one degree or another, if only because the native names get filtered through a Gascon dialect instead of a Sapnish one. Adam [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]