My first thought for obvious was just don't set it in our world. Set it in a similar world. You already added in magic, so it's not going to be that much like our world, just go fully ahead and make it another planet and another people.
I don't know the story, so maybe she wanted historical figures in it, which would cause problems. But if not, you can make a world for yourself.
You can have a Columbus-like character and not name him Columbus. You can easily have pioneers and settlers. And then it's less research to do too.
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Date: 2009-05-11 10:31 pm (UTC)I don't know the story, so maybe she wanted historical figures in it, which would cause problems. But if not, you can make a world for yourself.
You can have a Columbus-like character and not name him Columbus. You can easily have pioneers and settlers. And then it's less research to do too.