>accidentally mentally buckbreaks the western world so hard that it shakes the whole of European culture to its core and kickstarts modernity The """"discovery"""" of the Americas was inevitable, but how outweighed was its impact because it came when it did at the cusp of the 16th century? If it had taken another century and happened in 1592 how less fucked would the world be?
>>18252506I don't think it would have changed too much. Maybe protestants would say its of the devil or something.Oh wait a minute they already did do so and settled it anyway.
>>18252506I think this reasoning is somewhat backward. It happened precisely when it did because Europe was where it was at that point.
>>18252506There's an absolutely bonechilling gutwrenching call of the void associated with this guy and a few norse being the first people to ever get across the atlantic by boat without dying over there and disappearing into the endless abyss. How can we be so young of a species that a modern man was the first to do it properly? Nordic chads treated it as a novelty afterthought.
Euros were more concerned with the protestant reformation and the ottomans
