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This brings up a good point about what does discover mean. People lived in north America but they did not write about it to Europeans so they had to be discover
by nashashmi 5y ago
This brings up a good point about what does discover mean. People lived in north America but they did not write about it to Europeans so they had to be discovered.
Why does my understanding of history seem to revolve around what Europeans did and did not do/know?
- warkdarrior 5y agoFor better or for worse, different civilizations took different approaches to keeping written records. The Chinese, many European people, the Arabs, the Persians, the Indians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, many African people all had detailed written records. So we tend to tell history from their point of view, since this is the info we have. Do we have written info from the Native Americans who met the Vikings or from the Caribbean peoples about Columbus? Not that I know of. We have the Vikings view of things and Columbus' view, so we tend to rely on them.