LadyJasmine said:
I do not understand how the voyage to Newfoundland was never spread to European Lore...
Its like hey the Vikings found some land 400 years ago, we should check it out... |
Well, there was a lot of stories about new lands found at the East, and probably some ships (cod fishermen, for example) "rediscovered" those lands from time to time... But there wheren't many incentives to colonize those places nor the metropolis had the capacity to obtain resources of them, so actually nobody cared. Only when the sailing tech was advanced enough to reach the richer places of America and obtain a return of the inversion, as well as with the European political situation allowed it (strong centralised states, end of "Reconquista" for both Spain and Portugal, Turk power diminishing the benefits of the traditional Silk Road to the East) the "discovery" of America and the maritime route to Asia could have any relevance.
