How can you prove that Christopher Colombus didn't discover America?a?

Answer 1

In 900's and 1000's the vikings from europe sailed out to find more land and they find greenland and then they sailed down to way canada is today so they find north american first!And before the vikings people from Asia come over to north american because the ice age made a gaint land bridge called Bering and that was about 13000's years ago!Here is some more facts about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_land_bridge!

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Answer 2

Ok, one more time.

If by "discover" you mean being the first person ever to lay eyes on it, obviously he wasn't. The ancestors of the the people we know as "Native Americans" today were the ones who discovered the two continents and surrounding islands that came to be called the "Americas."

And as you all know, Columbus was not the first European to land in the New World either. It's been pretty much proven beyond desputing that Viking landed in what is now Newfoundland and established settlements. There are also accounts from other Europeans, mostly fishermen, of lands located far to the west of Europe and Africa.

What Columbus DID do (aside from murdering and enslaving the people he found here and giving them all kinds of potent Euro-germs) was to bring the Americas to the attention of the Western world. Yes, mabe the Vikings found it first. But then they LOST it!

We don't trace our history to the Vikings or to fishermen because nothing came of their discovery. Before long they had either died out or packed up and gone home. So that in a few generations nobody even knew they were there except maybe for legends and folk tales.

The society, the civilization in which we live now, the history of the world as we know it, are all the result for better or worse, of the voyages of Columbus. I'm not saying he was a good man or he did a good thing or that he should have a holiday in his name or be honored in any way. But the fact is that he is the reason we are here now. If he had never lived or if he had been lost at sea or had turned back maybe somebody else would be living here now, but it would not be us* and the history of world would have turned out very very different.

*That goes for Native Americans too. There might still be descendants of your ancestors here, but no one living today would ever have been born. It would be a totally different set of people inhabiting the world today.

Answer 3

But Columbus did discover America, Central America, also the Bahamas , the Greater and lessor Antilles and Cuba. He discover and claimed them for Spain though he was not the first to do it we have evidence that the Vikings got to the Northern parts of the Continent first about 1000CE.

What Columbus thought he had found was a part of the East Indies hence he called the inhabitants Indians. Read any book on Columbus and you learn it not even revisionists can change it.

Answer 4

Columbus arrived at his Bahamas landfall on October 12, then proceeded to Cuba on October 28. While sailing north of Cuba on November 22, Martín Alonso Pinzón, captain of the Pinta, left the other two ships without permission and sailed on his own in search of an island called "Babeque," where he had been told by his native guides that there was much gold. Columbus continued with the Santa Maria and Niña eastward, and arrived at Hispaniola on December 5.

Answer 5

Because the Vikings did in the 11th century. They had a settlement in what is now New Foundland until the native peoples drove them away.

Besides, Columbus landed on a Carribean island, not America.

Plus, there's also speculation that there was a group of Irish monks that went west not long before the Vikings did.

Columbus was a murderer and rapist. He sucked.

Answer 6

He didn't stop in Indian, pick up a bunch of Indian people, send them on a pirate ship ahead his, land in America, name them Indians and then take credit for discovering it. He went to his grave believing American was India anyway. All he did was make a wrong turn, call the first group of people he saw Indians, reprot his findings back to Queen Isabella, and eventually get a holiday named after him. The rest is (his)tory.

Answer 7

When he arrived he met the descendants of people that had come here thousands of years before him.
Furthermore; in the Newfoundlands there was a camp that had been in existence for about five hundred years before Columbus made it to the islands. The ruins of these camps were the remains of Viking exploration. You can see the ruins today in Newfoundland Canada.

Answer 8

His own diaries.

Get a copy and read it. He writes how their were numerous people on the Caribbean islands already here.

Get a book on the civilizations of North and South America.

Columbus discovered America
the same way a car thief "discovers" your car.

Answer 9

I have to agree with Ape and most others. Natives were here thousands years before, some histories will say millions. And upon arrival there was evidence of Viking interaction, such as clothing.

Answer 10

A Viking grave found in Greenland which included an Indian arrowhead.