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To be fair it would really be misleading as he wasn't the one who "discovered" America. >>He was the first person to establish long and meaningful >>connectio
by a1a 12y ago
To be fair it would really be misleading as he wasn't the one who "discovered" America.
>>He was the first person to establish long and meaningful
>>connection with the New World that would eventually tie
>>Europe to the Americas, but it is a misconception that he
>>was the first to “discover” America.
http://sites.psu.edu/mmancini/2012/09/08/1-columbus-was-the-first-a-misconception/ http://sites.psu.edu/mmancini/2012/09/08/1-columbus-was-the-...
Additional source: http://web.dsbn.edu.on.ca/~William.Randall@dsbn.edu.on.ca/FOV1-00141BFF/FOV1-00151235/Vikings%20%231.pdf http://web.dsbn.edu.on.ca/~William.Randall@dsbn.edu.on.ca/FO...
- kubiiii 12y agoConsider my post a alley oop assist ;)
- kamjam 12y agoTo be really fair, Columbus was searching for India when he first discovered America so I doubt he even knew what he had stumbled upon
- dragonwriter 12y agoIIRC, he continuously insisted that he had reached the ("East", as we now know them as a result of him being wrong) Indies, in fact.