Asclepias
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But thats false. He didnt lead the first group of anything. Leif Ericsson was the first european to hit the americas and prior to that the Mali empire from Africa.The americas were already populated. What are you talking about? Columbus never even knew he had "discovered" a new continent.You sound like an idiot. He wasn't even the first euriopean to make it to the americas.columbus day is just another day white boys made up to sooth their fragile egos. This idiot thought he was in India.![]()
Big words from someone with modern knowledge and access to modern data.
Back then it was a huge risk sailing that direction, because others who went before him never came back, or turned back before they found anything.
he was the one that brought enough information back to begin the permanent colonization of the "New World"
The Viking settlements all failed, and left scant written evidence of them occurring. What we know about it is from the archeological digs and vague references to a land to the West.
They were populated, but the concept of discovery is of course from a European (and by proxy Oriental) perspective.
It doesn't matter his original thought on what he found, what matters is he led the first group that found the "New World" and opened it up to exploration and exploitation by the "Old World"