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But we know Columbus wasn't the first. The surprising thing is that the Atlantic is less difficult to cross than you'd think. It's somewhat common for people
by api_or_ipa 9y ago
But we know Columbus wasn't the first. The surprising thing is that the Atlantic is less difficult to cross than you'd think. It's somewhat common for people to ride the current to the New World in just a few metres of boat[0].
The hard, and scary, part is planning to bring enough supplies when you don't know when you'll see land.
0 http://www.yachtingworld.com/extraordinary-boats/undaunted-the-42-inch-yacht-still-hoping-to-become-the-smallest-boat-ever-to-cross-the-atlantic-107559 http://www.yachtingworld.com/extraordinary-boats/undaunted-t...
- aaron-lebo 9y agoAccidental contact probably happened a lot. Those are the stories that would be fascinating, but we'll never know about them. Planned colonization and/or trading missions are the more dubious claims.
- breakyerself 9y agoUnfortunately not enough to condition natives to the diseases brought from the old world.
- singularity2001 9y agothis should be the accepted common sense answer > but we'll never know about them unless Meso-american religion told us about white Gods with beards coming from the East
- vadimberman 9y ago> The hard, and scary, part is planning to bring enough supplies when you don't know when you'll see land. That's today. Back then, they wouldn't know whether there is even land. Imagine what it means to sail without maps or equipment in time when what we considered basic general knowledge about physics was not even there. It would take as much courage as sending a manned mission to the Outer Solar system today.