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Columbus wasn’t the first to discover America
« on: October 11, 2021, 01:45:59 pm »
October 11, 2021
Columbus wasn’t the first to discover America
By Mark C. Ross

There are plenty of reasons to consider wandering Vikings to have gotten here before the “Italian Navigator”… but they didn’t make any maps, at least good ones that we know of.  Chinese ships lost some stone anchors off the Pacific coast of what is now California, but they went back home and never bothered colonizing anything.

Columbus was so good at crossing the Atlantic that he did it three more times.  Just between you and me, they already knew the earth was round and not flat… so it wasn’t all that scary.  How so?  Back then it was commonplace to see a ship vanish beyond the horizon and still return.

Long before Columbus, aboriginal natives of Siberia crossed the Bering Strait in really primitive craft.  They came in three waves, representing three linguistic groups (sort of):  Mohican, Algonquian and Athabascan.  There may have been folks here before them, such as the Red Ocre People and the makers of Clovis points.  The data is a bit sketchy, and it’s been a long time since I took that class.

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Re: Columbus wasn’t the first to discover America
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2021, 10:41:09 pm »
Of course he wasn't.

How were people here when he landed?

The significance of Columbus lost on some of these people is that Columbus was the first one of the known civilized or European world to visit here.  And significant amounts of people followed him to establish what we are now.

The Vikings did squat to establish this country.

And the peasants who were living here when Columbus arrived had some achievements but in isolation, and a lot of their atrocities overshadowed those achievements.
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Re: Columbus wasn’t the first to discover America
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2021, 10:46:51 pm »
   That may be true BUT Christopher Columbus was the first in recorded History to have CHARTED a path to the new world with rudimentary navigation tools, at that.
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Re: Columbus wasn’t the first to discover America
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2021, 10:52:33 pm »
It was a mistake to give a holiday to a navigator who got lost.

Who really was the first to discover the Americas?

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Re: Columbus wasn’t the first to discover America
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2021, 10:53:12 pm »
I'd speculate that mariners from he Old World have been coming here since Egyptian times, but none ever stayed that we are aware of.
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Re: Columbus wasn’t the first to discover America
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2021, 10:58:15 pm »
L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site

At the tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula lies the first known evidence of European presence in the Americas. Here Norse expeditions sailed from Greenland, building a small encampment of timber-and-sod buildings over 1000 years ago Against a stunning backdrop of rugged cliffs, bog, and coastline, discover the fascinating archaeological remains of the Viking encampment  .  .  .
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Re: Columbus wasn’t the first to discover America
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2021, 11:53:42 pm »
That's OK. October 9 is Leif Erikson Day. If we use the same second-Monday-of-the-month rule we use for Columbus Day, we can celebrate it at the same time! Hingä Dingä Döërgën!


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