✦ Time paradoxes · Still around
Columbus: 1492; Aztec Empire: 1428–1521 — that is 29 years later.
When Columbus reached America, the Aztec Empire still existed.
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- When Edison made his light bulb, Charles Darwin was still alive.
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- When Constantinople fell, Russia still paid tribute to the Golden Horde.
- When teaching began at Oxford, the Byzantine Empire still existed.