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Is Spain a Great Alternative to Spain?
In 1491, Columbus is almost 40 years old. He's going back and forth between the Castilian court and Genoese people. They are sort of saying, well, if you ever do get backing for this idea, we'll put in some money. So it's quite an interesting question about whether France could have done it because France is the great power in Europe. It would have been focused on North America rather than Caribbean and South.