Em. In 1492, most of the European population were still subsistence farming peasants. Those generally weren't the people who became explorers. Given disease st

Em. In 1492, most of the European population were still subsistence farming peasants. Those generally weren't the people who became explorers. Given disease still would have wiped out the bulk of the Americas had people started to arrive in 1100 and it still would have taken a while before they got very far inland, I'm not entirely sure impressions would have been all that much different.