Since 1600: Kingdom of Kongo starts to introduce western ideas. 1605: King Henry V of Triple Monarchy of England-Castille-Portugal wants to find the way to China and India by going west. He has four ships starting from the Atlantean west coast. However, the journeys are struck by an extreme case of bad luck: The first one is hit by a hurricane and starves somewhere in the North Pacific, the second one lands on the island of Tahiti, where the crew mutinies and simply stays there, the third one lands on OTL New Guinea, where they're killed and eaten by the local cannibals, and the fourth one crosses the Pacific and lands in Nippon, where they are defeated by Nipponese armed with guns and imprisoned (possibly the Nipponese-Russian competition was a reason for that - who in Nippon can tell Eur