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Agree that Zheng He would be the biggest individual to cause a butterfly effect. I don't know how you get China to commit to that development since they seem to always be an internally focused culture.
I dunno how it happens but imagine the treasure fleet sailing the largest wooden ships of all time into European ports in the early 1400s
But there'd be no logical reason to travel that far for some savage barbarians.
There wasn't really all that logical a reason to do the voyages at all beyond showing everyone how cool and rich and powerful the Ming emperors were. But most of Africa, all of Europe, and the Americas didn't get to see it.