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Who Really Discovered America?
Columbus? 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
Columbus? 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
The Vikings? 10%  10%  [ 6 ]
The Vikings? 10%  10%  [ 6 ]
Or Leroy the drunk who lives two doors down from me? 11%  11%  [ 7 ]
Or Leroy the drunk who lives two doors down from me? 11%  11%  [ 7 ]
Or was it someone else? 26%  26%  [ 16 ]
Or was it someone else? 26%  26%  [ 16 ]
Total votes : 62

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12 Aug 2006, 3:53 am

There is some controversy regarding this question.

But here's where you voice your opinion.

Personally, Leroy the drunk has me convinced.


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12 Aug 2006, 4:42 am

What about the people already living there when the "discoverers" arrived?



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12 Aug 2006, 4:59 am

Ah, history. How shall we write it this time?

The answer is "It depends on who and how you ask."

Columbus "discovered America." Prior to that, Europeans were not aware that a pair of continents divided the oceans between Europe and the Far East. There is evidence that suggests that the Vikings may have landed across the Atlantic long before that. And of course most of us feel certain that Asiatic peoples migrated across what are now the Bearing Straits much, much earlier.


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12 Aug 2006, 6:18 am

I remain unconvinced that America has indeed been discovered, as yet. We're running out of places to look, too. I hope someone finds it soon.


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12 Aug 2006, 6:21 am

:lol:


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12 Aug 2006, 8:15 am

i thought the american indians discovered america?



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12 Aug 2006, 8:17 am

Is there intelligent life on Earth?



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12 Aug 2006, 8:31 am

TheGreyBadger wrote:
Is there intelligent life on Earth?


Of course not. Deep down, everybody is a moron.


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12 Aug 2006, 8:54 am

I think Christopher Columbus discovered America because I believe in history.


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12 Aug 2006, 9:22 am

Well, it wasen't me!



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12 Aug 2006, 10:56 am

Tis was the welsh!


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12 Aug 2006, 11:37 am

larsenjw92286 wrote:
I think Christopher Columbus discovered America because I believe in history.


Well, if you believe in history as it is taught in schools, then you have latched firmly onto a course in well-versed propaganda. The fact remains that there is yet history that is not taught in schools, like how America engaged in war with the Native Americans. This is not taught in most history courses, at least not from the perspective of the Native Americans.

Christopher Columbus did not discover America. The Vikings had discovered it long before him. Possibly, there were much earlier populations that may have discovered. It is not known how long the Native Americans resided in this country before they faced the threat of being wiped out by colonial savages. Christopher Columbus, however, was in search of spices and gold. The Vikings were not really in search of anything that substantial. Columbus thought he was in India, and that is how Indian became the word that is commonly used for Native American. You don't gain any sort of substantial history in America unless you're in search of some sort of commodity. If you do so through savagery, you have a better chance of gaining American notoriety.

Christopher Columbus was not a nice person, and it is well known that he was a slave trader. He could've well been the one whom started the savagery towards the Native American populations.

If you're in search of history from a different perspective than the elites, then read some of Howard Zinn's work.

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12 Aug 2006, 11:45 am

Like I said, "It depends on who and how you ask."

Aeturnus wrote:
it is well known that he was a slave trader.

How well known is it? I didn't know. Anybody else?


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12 Aug 2006, 12:02 pm

Oh, actually I learned in American history class that the Native Americans did not discover America.

My teacher did not teach us anything about the war in Iraq because it was "too new."


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12 Aug 2006, 12:19 pm

100s of people discover America every day.

Probably the Aliens resposible for the Nazca/Palpa phenomenon were the 'first', by a very large margin.



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12 Aug 2006, 12:54 pm

Ignoring problems brought up by religion:

The indigenous peoples of the Americas (url) arrived over 16,000 years ago either by sea or by crossing a land/ice bridge form Asia. Some Native American tribes have stories that support this view. There is no evidence of human evolution taking place on the American continents.

The vikings were the first to 'discover' america and attempted colonization (url). One view of why these settlements failed was that the settlers did not have the ruthlessness of their ancestors and ended up getting ran off by the local Native Americans.