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2006-10-09 10:52:35 · 33 answers · asked by Thebronx 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Nope he didn't discover America first. He didn't even land on America, but an island in the Carribean. AND he wasn't the first to think the earth was round. The ancient Greek thought that first too. Columbus Day is a crock. Especially since I don't get that day off.
2006-10-09 10:59:27 · answer #1 · answered by Peakles 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christopher Columbus didn't really discover America. There were already millions of Native Americans in the Americas. This subject really gets under my skin when I think about how the Native Americans lived for thousands of years and then to take a look at them now. The ones I know. Christopher Columbus was the man who began the genocide of Native Americans.
2006-10-09 11:09:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There were natives already here, Vikings sailed to North America during the Middle Ages, and West Africans sailded to South America. All Columbus did was open the door for the takeover
2006-10-09 10:56:27 · answer #3 · answered by Random Nimrod 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, Christopher Columbus publicised it..... but Leif Ericson most likely discovered America.
2006-10-09 10:59:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No He wasn't the first, but he was the most noted for it. America did seem really important to anybody before Columbus. As soon as He arrived back to Spain with the results of his findings, everyone else suddenly became interested.
2006-10-09 10:55:11 · answer #5 · answered by Skippy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He didn't discover it. There were obviously people living here before he claimed it for Spain. He actually assumed he found India (where he was headed in the first place) which is why he referred to the native inhabitants as "Indians." Fact of the matter: he was lost. Why there is a day devoted to his "discovery" is beyond me.
2006-10-09 10:58:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It has been proven that the Vikings were here long before Columbus.
2006-10-09 10:54:08 · answer #7 · answered by AsianPersuasion :) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He didn't... how can you "discover" something that wasn't lost to begin with? And if "discovering" things only applies to the Europeans, Leif Errickson did it WAY b4 Colombus did... BTW Leif sailed here ON PURPOSE... not like some idiot who hit the shores thinking that he landed on INDIA... he was a murderer and a rapist... I think that history books should be rewritten to REALLY educate our youth, but then again "who controls the past, controls the future... who controls the present, controls the past"
See? even dct1218 agrees with me (or I agree with her.... whatever)
2006-10-09 11:00:08 · answer #8 · answered by Islander 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christopher Columbus ran into it and was smart enough to REPORT it
The vikings came first and they alwasy knew it was here and so never bothered to report it
2006-10-09 10:54:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truth. He didn't
He got lost on his way to India. That's why Native Americans were called Indians. They weren't lost, and how do you discover something that was already there?
2006-10-09 10:59:36 · answer #10 · answered by dct1218 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋