Why do historians consider Columbus to be more important than Leif Ericson?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Because of the motivations and worldviews behind the voyages of Erikson and Columbus, and also because of the consequences of each of these voyages. Erikson, like a good Viking, liked adventure. Got in a boat, made it to Canada, didn't have too much fun there, went home. No big changes resulted from that trip. Columbus epitomized the Renaissance worldview of optimism and human potential, the desire to explore, the desire and belief in the possibility of improving current life circumstances. He got into a boat, made it to the islands off the coast of America, and came back to Spain, thoroughly convinced he had made it to the East Indies, and promising the Spanish monarchs wealth beyond their wildest imagination. Well, he was technically wrong, but more fundamentally, right. Columbus, without realizing it, DID open up a whole new way of being for the West - I'm not saying it didn't bring with it a huge amount of devastation - I'm just saying that Columbus did pave the way for something entirely new, so that the world was never the same again. THAT's why historians consider Christopher more important than Leif.
And, by the way, referring to the answer that Columbus was white, and this was why he is considered more important - actually, Leif, the Scandinavian, was probably a whole LOT whiter than Columbus, the Italian.

Answer 3

While Ericson may have found the new world, he really didn't discover it. By that I mean that after Leif was there the rest of the world didn't really learn about the new world and in fact knowledge of it was lost in the intervening years. So along come Columbus and he finds the new world and quickly runs home and tells everyone, and thus begins a new age of expansion and trade on a new continent. Leif spent a few years there, he little colony was eventually abandoned or wiped out and nobody went back.

As a result, Columbus actually changed the world with his discovery instead of it just being a personal adventure.

Answer 4

Eric The Red was Leif Ericson's father you know.

Prolly cause Columbus properly got the job done, by settling people over there, taking charge of stuff, colonizing the people and taking weath back home.

Answer 5

Well, as I saw in a magazine, when Columbus discovered America, the continent remained discovered.
Whatever Ericson did, had no major further repercussions
To churp:
Ericson was whiter than Columbus

Answer 6

It has to do with the point of origin. Northern Europeans don't arrive in great numbers in the new world until very late. The Vikings indeed get here first, but they do not establish a permanent settlement.

Columbus' voyage comes at a feverish time of European exploration in search for a safer and faster route east to the Orient. There was a mad rush for gold in order to start new crusades and to get the upper hand against European rivals. The New World is really another staging ground for the battles that exist in the European continent between these various powers.

When Columbus finds this new land, it leads to rapid colonization in order to search for gold, expand territories, and outmaneuver their rivals. No one would have come here from Europe otherwise.

Answer 7

Because Columbus has his own day on the calendar and that Leif guy doesn't.


Did you ever celebrate Leif Day? Reminds me of Fall colors....




g-day!

Answer 8

History books lie....the recordings of history are not necessarily the real history, but are written by the conquerors for their sons (and daughters).

The Spanish conquered the indiginous people in search of gold...greed was their motivator. The Norse colonized and traded peacefully, more or less....their motivator was commerce.

Look at the newspapers of today....what gets front page? bad news!!! The good news is usually buried somewhere, like in the buisiness pages.

Answer 9

Because of his recording of it. And the politics involved. It's all about the politics and propaganda. Ericson was too quiet.

Answer 10

Yep, Leif was great in the High Chapparal.