I watched this film and heard the story about the native Caribean people not being able to see Columbus' ships because they had no frame of reference, but they could see the waves emanating from the ships. Is this story true or is it simply an illustrative story?
2006-06-23 05:27:00 · 2 answers · asked by moviegirl 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It's complete nonsense. At various times on Columbus's first voyage, Native Americans saw the ships, swam out to the ships, boarded the ships, walked on the decks of the ships, and jumped off the ships.
2006-06-23 06:29:35 · answer #1 · answered by Keith P 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I believe this story is simply illustrative. It is basically saying that we are blind to things that we can't reference things to. They knew something was there, but they didn't know they were ships because they had never seen anything like it before. However, they had seen the waves in the ocean, so they understood those and knew what they were. Very good movie, by the way.
2006-06-23 12:32:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋