is it wrong for me to think whites discovered america and the indians just want to take credit for?

Question

it? i was taught that leif ericksonn discivered america, then indians came and kicked him out and then southern europens came like chris columbus, so i have always thought whites discovered america and have thought of indians as dispaced aisans..

discovered* displaced asians*

Answer 1

not at all

Answer 2

You can think whatever you wish, if it be true or not. I was also taught that the Vikings discovered America before Columbus and there are Viking settlements that prove this to be true. But then again, I was also taught that Colombus was a decent man, a hero for proving the world was round instead of flat, when he actually wasn't, since he enslaved and killed the native peoples that he discovered upon sailing to the west in his search for a way to get to India. The experts believe that the continents known as the Americas were inhabited over ten thousand years before the present; the remains of men found in the various places, (one of them Kenniwick Man just a few hundred miles from where I live), prove that they are on the right trail to believe that, also. The Anasazi of the American Southwest disappeared from history before Columbus sailed, leaving their empty homes behind and the peoples of the southern continent of the Americas had many civilizations that rose and fell prior to the Spanish invaders. Do a search, a history search, and you'll find out more to realize that Cuba was also one of the places that had the native population enslaved and taken over by the Spanish, who mixed their blood with them. Have fun searching out the truth, history is fun.

Answer 3

Yes, the ancestors of American "Indians" were the first to invade what later became called America. But they did nothing with it for thousands of years other than slaughter the native species and a few more of the advanced ones built adobe huts. They didn't even invent the wheel. "Indian" cultures in Central and South America at least built civilizations, but they excelled in slaughtering and enslaving each other, just like human beings everywhere (that is one reason Cortes conquered the Aztecs so easily, because the other peoples in Central America hated the Aztecs for their brutality). What you should do is thank the Europeans for bringing technology and civilization to the Americas. Otherwise, the life expectancy of your people would be still about 35 years of age. Btw- The Pilgrims didn't discover America either.

Answer 4

I thought that Amerigo Vespucci discovered America not Columbus (But Indians were here already)

Born: 9 March 1454
Birthplace: Florence, Italy
Died: 22 February 1512
Best Known As: The explorer after whom the Americas are named

Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine merchant and navigator who made at least two transatlantic trips to the New World, voyages that inspired cartographer Martin Wardseemüller to label the new continent "America" in 1507. Vespucci was employed by the Florentine Medici family as a representative for their operations in Seville, Spain. He went from supplying ships to joining the expedition of Alonso Ojeda as a navigator. Although the record is unclear, it is generally accepted that Vespucci sailed with Ojeda to the northeastern coast of South America in 1499, under the flag of Spain. He made a second voyage in 1502. The story that he reached South America in 1497 is held to be apocryphal; the story that he made a fourth voyage in 1504 is also considered suspect. Somehow an account of a 1497 voyage was published, and Wardseemüller came to believe that Vespucci had commanded the expedition and had reached the New World before Christopher Columbus, who found the mainland in 1498. Wardseemüller named the continent America and the label stuck.

Vespucci is said to have made a guess at the world's circumference that was accurate within 50 miles. His real achievement seems to be that he concluded America had to be a new continent and not the eastern part of Asia, as Columbus believed. An honored citizen in Spain, Vespucci spent the years after his voyages as a maritime official for King Ferdinand.


Amerigo Vespucci is sometimes latinized to Americus Vespucius.

Answer 5

Obviously Indians discovered America since they were already living here, before everyone came and took the credit and took their land and pretty much everything else they had. So, I have to disagree.

Answer 6

The Indians were there before the Scandanavians came.

Answer 7

I think it is stupid to worry about who discoverd it. I believe the indians were living their first but may not have made records.

Answer 8

Nope, I just think that your facts are very backwards.

They are called Native Americans for a reason

Answer 9

yes, but that's my personal opinion. the indians lived in the woods they didnt know anything outside of that world. if they were just trying to take credit who for they didnt know anyone else. but thats tha past it's doesnt really matter if you think that way who's stoping you.