why or why not?
2006-09-21 10:52:33 · 8 answers · asked by Just_A_Boy 4 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Oh yeah, and I discovered Oregon when I moved here, and I could discover France if I went there.
People from Finland made it even before Columbus! And Native people were here for who knows how long! and some people say they came from Asia.
LOL! that is the saddest attribution of US history that we still teach our children that Columbus discovered North America. Well, it goes along with the rest of our constructed history lessons...
2006-09-21 11:04:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a word - Yes.
I realize that many other explorers came to America first, but Columbus was the only one to colonize and set-up trade relations between the new world and Europe with the indigenous people living in the Caribean at the time.
2006-09-21 18:15:25 · answer #2 · answered by abono11746 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That whole "discovery" thing is just a cover for European racism and exploitation during colonial conquests. The Americas were not a vacant lot. They were not "discovered" they were invaded. If anyone deserves any credit, give it to the Native People who lived here before the Vikings showed up.
2006-09-21 17:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by Isis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO!
1. The Vikings were the first Europeans to settle on the continent.
2. He was*so* lost. He thought he was someplace else entirely. What a loser.
And none of this even takes into account the Native Americans and their fore-fathers.
2006-09-21 18:01:41 · answer #4 · answered by pinduck85 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He discovered Haiti. That isn't America the last time I checked.
2006-09-21 18:00:26 · answer #5 · answered by SAGAL79 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he only got the credit in european countries.someone in the crows nest sighted land and yelled "land! thanks be to God"!!! columbus was probably sleeping. indians, or native americans were here first and no records exist of when they arrived and from where
2006-09-21 18:05:24 · answer #6 · answered by houdini 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way! It's not like nobody lived here before he came. He was an explorer that found some land that nobody from spain had been before.
2006-09-21 17:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by Sasasa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course.
Dont tell me you think it was Clinton ?
2006-09-21 18:10:10 · answer #8 · answered by mashkitty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋