keeping in mind that he wasn't where he thought he was, and he wasn't the first person there?
2006-10-09 03:00:43 · 22 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
he let europe know all about INDIA? lmfao
2006-10-09 03:04:23 · update #1
Duque, he thought he was in INDIA. That is how he proved it was round? He didn't prove that, because he didn't make it AROUND the world! again, lmfao.
2006-10-09 03:06:12 · update #2
how exactly did Iceland and Greenland (home of the vikings) know about america? Oh yeah, they were told by the viking explorers, and came and colonized WAY before the western europeans did...
2006-10-09 03:08:25 · update #3
I'm native american, I will stay right here, thank you very much. BTW, knowing and understanding your history is very much self loving, not self loathing.
2006-10-09 03:09:47 · update #4
frank, let me clarify something for you. The 'natives' of the west indies weren't native at all, they were cimarrons (africans) who were brought as slaves to the islands, and who PROSPERED and actually managed to drive the slave traders away, and take over the islands from the true natives, a peace loving, docile, and ultimately dead for it, tribes. Get it right.
2006-10-09 03:52:06 · update #5
sweet morlock, the slaves are responsible for building the modern america we know today. Man you guys just never really learned history did you?
2006-10-09 03:53:39 · update #6
In my opinion - nothing major, really. Well, he may have made it acceptable to 'discover' things that already had owners. (I kinda like my neighbor's TV. Can I go over and 'discover' it?) But as has been mentioned, when an advanced culture and a primitive culture clash, the primitive culture will lose. So maybe he really discovered that Native Americans are surprisingly easy to kill.
But while we're here, please allow me to clear up a few things about the 'Vikings'.
The Vikingr (Viking is a verb roughly equivalent to 'explore'. A Vikingr is the person who does the viking - get it?) left here pretty much for good after Thorvald Ericsson was killed in a clash with the 'skraelings,' or Native Americans. They saw that the land was already settled and that at least some of the inhabitants were quite fierce in their protection of their lands.
Well, we had enough of that in Europe at the time as well, thank you very much. Vikingr plundered (and traded and married) their way across huge swaths of Europe around that time and certainly didn't need Vinland to worry about. Europe was quite flush and easy pickings. So while the Native Americans were sitting around waiting for the next raid from another tribe, most of Europe was sitting around waiting for the next raid from my ancestors. Why bother with vicious skraelings used to battle when we could have our wicked way with the French whenever we wanted? (And we did. For about 200 years.)
Did the Vikingr tell others about Vinland? Well, of course they did. It's even in the Eddas. Everyone with a brain had pretty much accepted the world was round centuries before Columbus even shoved off the pier. And they knew something was out there because of the Vikingr. How could Columbus lose short of sinking?
Well, he obviously didn't even though he never actually set foot on the continent. (He made it as far as the Caribbean, I believe.) But unfortuantely, a highly socially advanced, but technologically primitive culture did lose. And while it's a shame, it is indeed part of human nature to oppress and exploit those who are deemed weak. We do it to this very day, even.
~Morg~
2006-10-09 03:36:18 · answer #1 · answered by morgorond 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
One of the first known celebrations marking the discovery of the "New World" by Christopher Columbus was in 1792, when a ceremony organized by the Colombian Order was held in New York City honoring Christopher Columbus and the 300th anniversary of his landing in the Bahamas. Then, on October 12, 1866 the Italian population of New York organized the first celebration of the discovery of America. Three years later, in 1869 Italians in San Francisco celebrated October 12 calling it C-Day.
2006-10-09 03:54:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
People that live in the past are destined to repeat the past.
You, I bet are not 100% pure Indian.There aren't many of them in this US.Most if not all have some other blood line also,like white,black,Mexican etc.So you I will bet money on that ,no matter what you say about being this and being that can not prove you are 100 % Indian.so your questions and your excuses are not of any importance to intelligent thinking.If you do not wish to celebrate Columbus Day then just don't.No one really cares.Its a silly juvenile argument.Can you change history,your version or mine ? No you cant so why not just get on with your present day living.I'm sure not losing any sleep over it.I live every day in 2006,in the real world.
2006-10-09 05:30:07 · answer #3 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
But he succeeded in exploring many of the islands and establishing a colony in Hispanolia, succeeded in introducing many varieties of fruits and vegetables into Europe. Livingstone was also guilty of being in the wrong place, but it doesn't detract from him....you overlook the problems of navigation and lack of charts....Rand McNally didn't begin publishing maps until the 1860s. While the Chinese reached America in the early part of the 1400s, they didn't establish a colony and neither did the Vikings...There is an appropriate old joke about Columbus and the hard-boiled egg......it's easy if someone shows you the way. Yes, it is true that the Spanish did follow in hordes and conquer the natives of South and Central America...and stopped the Carib Indians from eating people...but not all of that is attributal to Columbus. That is like blaming crocodiles for eating people that fall into the water...what takes place is not their fault.
2006-10-09 03:11:30 · answer #4 · answered by Frank 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Just ask any indian from any country in America if they are gonna celebrate it. NOT! To them it meant the end of their cosmology, their world. And in this present Latin America still suffers from the vices inherited from the Spaniards, plus the inferiority complex that ensued in the psyche of latin american people, due to the bloody conquest and pillage of our ancestral cultures, of the cultural rape that brought to birth the mondern latin american countries. I accept that Cristobal Colon was a great explorer and his sense of determination brought him here even though he didn't know where he was. But for many latin Americans, that day is a sad day, and it is almost not celebrated if at all.
It all depends of the perspective, I mean: To some people in some countries: Oct 12 1492 was the day that opened the door to invaders that everntually not only conquered them but also enslaved them and forced them to accept other men as masters and rulers. For some this is a good day to celebrate becasue it inaugurated an era of commerece and human exchange and brought christ to the Americas. It's all about the perspective, in what side were you when the train hit.
2006-10-09 03:36:17 · answer #5 · answered by Dominicanus 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
All American self-haters need to stop being hypocrites. Although our american history is a bit tarnished (to put it lightly), the fact of the matter is that it was inevitable. When a more advanced civilization meets a primitive one, and that primitive one has a lot of good stuff, guess what happens? Sad, but true. It is human nature. We celebrate the fact that Columbus was the beginning of the creation of the Americas. If you hate yourself and this country so much, give everything you own to native americans and then go back to Europe, asia, Africa, etc.
2006-10-09 03:06:21 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
That's not the point!
What if someone dicovered cancer and never knew it?
Colombus knew he had discovered a western hemisphere, he knew the world was round and proved it.
The people living in the US had no idea. They were just concerened with trying to eat.
The native populations were a bunch of war mongerers busy killing each other. Europe got involved and showed them who was boss. I don't feel sad at all for the natives fate. It's cultural Darwinism. beats living in a mud hut wondering where the next meal is coming from and scared for the next raid from the neighboring tribe.
Viva Columbo!
You're dumber than you arleady proved to be!
He did prove the world was round by taking a western route towards India. His premise was that a western sea route would lead to india (and it would). At the time they believed the world was flat and that he would fall off.
And what did the natives prove? That stone-aged people were still around? You'd be busy picking ticks from your kid's scalp, picking berries, and wondering when the next rape and pillaging party from the neighboring tribe was coming.
I'm tired of the BS romanticism of native americans.
Have fun with the firewater on the res!
2006-10-09 03:05:01 · answer #7 · answered by Duque de Alba 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The fbi used to be tracking him for the reason that he used to be running with communists and different unamerican forces. Forces that might provide country wide defense secrets and techniques to the Soviet Union. Along the best way they learned a few weird features of dr. kings individual lifestyles, frequenting prostitutes, having orgies with underage boys and different matters under no circumstances but acknowledged. They refuse to free up his fbi files in view that if the general public knew of all that used to be in it, such a lot might call for him now not having a excursion. Its supposedly that unhealthy.
2016-08-29 05:40:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the question is how did he get the money from the queen of spain? That must have been his sugar momma, personally, i think he hit that. lol.. Durban or whatever his name is, lets just call him julio iglesias, is a fool. He needs to come over my house and cook me up some Paella, and stop bs'in
2006-10-09 03:42:59 · answer #9 · answered by Muchacha Mala 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not much.
But then, what did the pilgrims do to Native Americans to celebrate on Thanksgiving?
2006-10-09 03:48:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋