2007-11-13 22:14:26 · 12 answers · asked by nishant s 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
You discover something that is already there. You invent something that is new.
2007-11-13 22:18:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are two different angles to look at the question.
First, the first people to "discover" were the proto-Mongolid people how walked and boated across the land bridge that connected Pacific Russia and Alaska circa 20,000 BCE. so he was not the first person to discover the Americas in the traditional sense of the word
Second, if you look at the question from an Eurocentric point of view there were Danes (vikings) trading and setting up camps in Nova Scotia as early as 1000 AD and reports of Irish monks sailing the Atlantic before that. And if you are looking for a big named European of who "discovered" the new land Leaf Ericson (son of Eric the Red) was in the New England area in the 1200's. So again, Columbus was not the first.
2007-11-14 07:22:58 · answer #2 · answered by Carries a Big Stick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Columbus' "Discovery" led to colonization. The Viking's did no longer. And in case you employ the argument that Leif Erickson merits credit for getting to understand u.s. because of the fact he replaced into right here until eventually now Columbus, does no longer credit belong to a pair guy from China that walked around the ice thousands of years until eventually now Erickson?
2016-10-16 11:41:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you go to the link below and type discover, most of the definitions are of the type;
to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity.
So as others have said the Indians (sorry, Native Americans) were there first so he didn't discover it. However, as far as Europeans are concerned, he did
2007-11-13 22:21:46 · answer #4 · answered by alex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saying that he discovered the west is like saying that Pythagorus discovered how a right triangle works (the Egyptians knew 2000 years earlier) or that Isaac Newton discovered gravity (!)
He didn't discover it as much as explored and charted it for Europeans! He also brought back new plants, animals from the so-called New World (there's only one)
2007-11-14 03:39:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Firstly its right not write and he didnt really did he well i dont think so because there were all ready people there. The red indians so they probably discovered it but they weren't like him who wanted to make such a big deal about it :D
2007-11-13 22:17:46 · answer #6 · answered by Nadine 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes it is safe to say because there are already some merchants that is doing trade and business with the natives hundreds of year before he says he discovered the place, but because history books are written by westerners so they usually dominates it with their own version which is more or less biased to their own civilizations.
2007-11-13 22:19:14 · answer #7 · answered by livinhapi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He discovered it from an European perspective only, as it was unknown to them before his voyages. He was not the first to 'discover' it as it was known to the indigenous inhabitants.
2007-11-13 23:16:33 · answer #8 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, because the Arabs discover America first but they got eaten by the red Indians, they only found their ships remain on some beach.
2007-11-13 22:19:16 · answer #9 · answered by ßäbéL 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Discovery or not, it isn't right to write "write" when you mean "right".
2007-11-13 22:17:04 · answer #10 · answered by Isidore Ducasse 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋