I mean obviously he wasn't the first and the Native Americans rarely get their credit, they migrated across a bridge from Asia. And Colombus actually only discovered the Carribeans.
2007-10-08 18:44:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Because the Vikings didn't get published, and the Asians didn't write about their trek, and the Clovis man evaporated after the new wave of Asians invaded the continent.
2007-10-08 18:49:44 · answer #1 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they did not know what the chinese did in 1421. No one knows the chinese discovered most of the other countries and that Columbus was using a chinese map when he sailed for the east.He may not have been the first European, ....................but he was the first to publish his findings
he just knew how to write about it in a language everyone would understand.
Being an excellent sailor he kept a ships log. Brought it back to Spain giving precise intructions on how to duplicate his trip. If you invent a cure for cancer and tell no one, write nothing down, then someone else will get the credit. There are numerous claims for others, as with St Brendan in his leather boat. But he was the first to bring back proof and a log and therefore got the credit.
It has long been disputed as to when Vespucci actually made his first voyage across the Atlantic. Some critics "charge that he had faked his first voyage in order to claim credit for the discovery of the New World,"
No one really knows if Amerigo truly did cross the Atlantic in 1497 or if the story of a secret voyage was just a great publicity stunt to gain more fame.
2007-10-08 18:53:23 · answer #2 · answered by dorothy m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look, since America has basically become an off shoot of Europe, it's no likely that the aboriginal people will get much credit for "discovering" the new world. After all, they just lived there, they didn't exactly share the information with the rest of the world. And the Natives do get their credit, it's just that they didn't discover america, they found it and lived there, but they did not spread their new information beyond america, hence, no discovery. Same problem for the vikings that found it first, they did not rush back to the old world and spread the news far a wide.
2007-10-08 20:19:17 · answer #3 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Concerning your question, because he did discover America, perhaps ?
If you believe that the native Americans deserve the credit, that's OK. You can give them the credit.
The Caribbeans, as far as I know, are located in America, unless you changed geography
2007-10-09 03:30:54 · answer #4 · answered by Der Schreckliche 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋